Scammers Are Selling Fake RTX 4090 Graphics Cards with Plastic GPU Dies and Missing Memory

Scammers are selling fake RTX 4090 graphics cards with plastic GPU dies and missing memory

In a video posted on the Chinese social media platform Bilibili, well-known PC hardware dealer Brother Zhang claimed that he was recently scammed into buying a counterfeit second-hand RTX 4090 for 1,500 yuan (around $221). According to Zhang, the card appeared to be a normal RTX 4090 at first glance,...Read Entire Article

Scammers Create Fake NVIDIA RTX 4090 With Plastic Die And Scrap Memory

In today’s report of hardware scammers and fake GPUs, we head back to China, where technician Brother Zhang received a broken RTX 4090. The problem, though, is that the level of fakery didn’t just end at the GPU die being an entirely different model, it wasn’t even real. Brother Zhang shows in his Bilibili video how scammers had stuck a plastic, plastic, on to the RTX 4090 PCB to imitate the GPU’s original GPU die. Like all fakes, Zhang could se…

Scammers in China sell $222 RTX 4090 with fake GPU die made out of plastic instead of real silicon — marked with 2030 production dates, the card didn't even have working VRAM

Nvidia dupes keep getting more sophisticated as time goes on, with the latest example using a plastic die instead of real silicon on an RTX 4090.