TECH NEWS – A very interesting video card has surfaced, and while it would be a good idea for Nvidia to make one, they’re not going to…are they?
Modded GPUs are pretty easy to find on online marketplaces. For example, something like putting a laptop GPU on the motherboard of a desktop graphics card. You can find a lot of these in China (they’re easy to find on Aliexpress), but in the video embedded below, Budget-Builds Official has shown a slightly different card. It’s supposedly called the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4010…
It was made by an unofficial Nvidia partner, Shenzhen Bitland, which specializes in repackaging and manufacturing hardware. It’s a single-slot, half-height card with a fan, and from that you can see that it’s low-profile, smaller in size, and could fit into SFF machines. The manufacturer has modified it a bit, because GPU-Z did not recognize it either. The driver is for the RTX 4090 D, and this is clearly not it.
It has 4 GB of GDDR6 VRAM, 96 GB/s bandwidth, and is supposed to have Nvidia’s GA107 GPU. It’s one of the entry-level chips from the previous architecture, Ampere, and from the looks of it, it looks like it’s been buffed from a workstation graphics card, the RTX A400. But even if it didn’t run with drivers designed for it, it was still capable of pretty good performance in games, as the clock speed was increased by 200 MHz! Red Dead Redemption 2, Cyberpunk 2077 and many other games showed a pretty decent performance on this small graphics card (which also consumes less than 75W, so it doesn’t need a power connector).
The price isn’t too bad either. It’s £80-120 in China, but postage and customs add a bit to that. Basically a slightly modified card with no packaging to get around China’s sanctions. The four miniDP port cards show that after the GT1010 it’s time for a similar entry-level graphics card!
Source: WCCFTech
