A Hong Kong-based seller is offering pre-modded NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards with 22GB of VRAM on eBay for $499. These older GPUs are being repurposed for AI tasks, particularly large language models and diffusion workloads, due to their increased memory capacity and Tensor Cores. While not as powerful as newer cards, these modified 2080 Ti's provide a budget-friendly option for AI enthusiasts seeking more VRAM. AI
IMPACT Offers a more accessible, albeit older, hardware option for local AI model training and inference.
RANK_REASON Third-party modification and resale of older hardware for AI use.
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