During the mining period, we have seen such oddities, especially in China. Indeed, some crazy brands like 51RISC, Corn or JieShuo have emerged, surfing on the trend to sell counterfeit cards. In short, today it is these manufacturers that NVIDIA wants to fight. In order to make their life difficult, the greens are teaming up with major e-commerce platforms in China!
NVIDIA partners with major e-tailers to fight counterfeits!
During the mining crisis, some series of NVIDIA cards were widely counterfeited. We think especially of the GTX 10, GTX 16 and RTX 2000. On the latter, we could see aberrations, like mobile GPUs adapted on PCIe cards. Finally, if the idea may seem attractive, it does not meet any desire on the part of the chameleon.
Moreover, it should be noted that the brands producing counterfeits are not partners of NVIDIA. From what we understand, the greens don’t even know about them and don’t know how they manage to release graphics cards. On their side, VideoCardz indicates that it is not impossible that it is a batch of refurbished/modified cards. Not to mention design theft. For example, the 51RISC RTX 4090 found on AliExpress is simply a Manli model whose pictures have been stolen.
All this to come to the most interesting fact: team green are partnering with big e-commerce platforms in China. This association already seems to bear fruit since some sales of second-hand cards are prohibited. So, on JD.com or Douyin, you shouldn’t see any refurbished RTX 20, GTX 16 and GTX 10 for example.
Now, if you want to buy a card in China and avoid getting something shady, several solutions. The first, turn to official partners of the company. We think of brands like MSI, Gigabyte, Colorful, Maxsun, Yeston, etc. Finally, by opting for RTX 30 and RTX 40 you limit the risks. Indeed, these series have not experienced the “mining crisis”.
