Fake RTX 4090 graphics card looks real – but hides an RTX 3090 GPU

WTF?! It's not just the RTX 5090 that's experiencing high demand. Gamers are still snapping up Nvidia's previous-gen RTX 4090, which explains the continued appearance of fake versions of the card. One trick is to use a die from an RTX 3090 series in the Lovelace flagship. A user on Chinese video-sharing platform Bilibili (via Tom's Hardware) shared a video of what appears to be an unboxing of a Palit RTX 4090 graphics card. At first glance, the card looks brand new. But disassembling it reveals the unfortunate truth: it's sporting a GA102 GPU used in the RTX 3090 Ti, RTX 3090, and RTX 3080 Ti series, instead of the AD102 found in the RTX 4090. The swap is made possible as the GPUs are pin-compatible and nearly identical in size. One of the most obvious warnings that there would be something wrong with this card was the price. The buyer paid 3,800 yuan, or around $530, which is nowhere near what you'd pay for an RTX 4090, especially in this current market. As fakes go, this one is v ... Read full article.