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Pre-modded 22GB RTX 2080 Ti GPUs surface on eBay for AI tasks

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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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Pre-modded 22GB RTX 2080 Ti GPUs surface on eBay for AI tasks

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. Tom's Hardware TIER_1 English(EN) · Jeffrey Kampman ·

    Pre-modded 22GB RTX 2080 Ti cards surface on eBay for $500 as VRAM-hungry local AI fans chase down every spare FLOP — Hong Kong-based seller offers AI-friendly memory mod for a reasonable price

    Services have recently popped up that will double your RTX 2080 Ti's memory to 22GB, but if you don't have a card to spare, you can now get a pre-modded 22 GB 2080 Ti for $499 from eBay.

  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Pre-modded 22GB RTX 2080 Ti cards surface on eBay for $500 as VRAM-hungry local AI fans chase down every spare FLOP — Hong Kong-based selle… Services have recen

    Pre-modded 22GB RTX 2080 Ti cards surface on eBay for $500 as VRAM-hungry local AI fans chase down every spare FLOP — Hong Kong-based selle… Services have recently popped up that will double your RTX 2080 Ti's memory to 22GB, but if you don't have a card to spare, you can now get…

    LINKS tomshardware.com/…/pre-modded-rtx-2080-ti… tomshardware.com/pc-components

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