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title: "Modded Nvidia RTX 5090 with 96GB memory appears on Alibaba for under $4,000"
url: https://www.parallelquant.com/posts/modded-nvidia-rtx-5090-with-96gb-memory-appears-on-alibaba-for-under-4-0-4aa06a
source_name: "Tom's Hardware"
source_url: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/china-modified-nvidia-rtx-5090-with-massive-96gb-of-memory-appears-on-alibaba-for-less-than-usd4-000-3x-more-vram-at-65-percent-the-cost-of-the-original
published: 2026-09-11T16:32:36.000Z
topics: ["chips"]
publisher: "Parallel Quant"
---

# Modded Nvidia RTX 5090 with 96GB memory appears on Alibaba for under $4,000

*2026-09-11 · Source: [Tom's Hardware](https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/china-modified-nvidia-rtx-5090-with-massive-96gb-of-memory-appears-on-alibaba-for-less-than-usd4-000-3x-more-vram-at-65-percent-the-cost-of-the-original)*

A China-modified Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 with 96GB of VRAM, three times the original card's memory, has surfaced for sale on Alibaba for about $3,888, roughly 65% of the original card's price, according to Tom's Hardware.

**Why it matters:** Modded high-memory consumer GPUs are a workaround Chinese buyers have increasingly used to get more usable AI compute despite export restrictions on data-center-class chips; a card this cheap with triple the memory suggests that workaround is scaling rather than staying a niche gray-market curiosity.

**Topics:** chips

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