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

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.