TECH NEWS – It’s not just the top model that appears to have undergone unique modifications in China; several Blackwell cards seem to have been transformed there as well.
Do you remember the Chinese laboratories where banned GeForce RTX 5090s were converted into blower GPUs? This is happening almost without restriction, and more and more Nvidia GeForce RTX 5000 GPUs are undergoing similar modifications. Due to the high demand for the RTX 5090 in China and the U.S. government’s ban on selling this GPU, Nvidia released a 24 GB version, the so-called GeForce RTX 5090 D V2. Large quantities of standard RTX 5090s are readily available on the Chinese market. In some cases, stores and laboratories remove the GPU chip and VRAM from the PCB to build new cards with blower-type coolers. These cards are then sold for use in AI, which is one reason it’s even more difficult for gamers to get the flagship RTX 5000 GPU. However, if you think the other models have remained untouched, you would be wrong.
Taobao recently started listing blower-type RTX 5000 cards covering almost the entire product line, except for a few models. It appears that three additional GPUs are being converted to blower-style designs, including the GeForce RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, and RTX 5060 Ti, all of which feature 16 GB of GDDR7 memory. Blower-type cooling systems have a fan at the front of the card that takes in air and pushes it out through the back. This design is most commonly seen on workstation and enterprise-class cards, where Nvidia‘s product line is branded as RTX Pro.
As with the blower-style RTX 5090 units, it is possible these are modified cards built around newer PCBs. With a blower cooler attached to the PCB, these GPUs become suitable for systems that need to exhaust heat through the I/O area, and the power connector is positioned on the right edge to free up space inside the chassis and enable multi-GPU configurations. At the moment, none of the cards seem to come with upgraded memory configurations, which would be particularly difficult under current market conditions.
On pricing, some of these options are quite expensive, especially the 32 GB RTX 5090 GPU at around $4,150. The 32 GB RTX 5090 D variant is slightly cheaper at about $3,869, while the V2 is just over $3,400. The RTX 5080 is listed at roughly $1,300, the RTX 5070 Ti at around $1,100, and the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB at $573, making it the cheapest 16 GB card in the lineup.
Source: WCCFTech, Videocardz
