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Guru3D.com » News » In Vietnam you can buy GPUs by the Kilo

In Vietnam you can buy GPUs by the Kilo

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 11/07/2022 10:04 AM | source: tomshardware | 19 comment(s)
In Vietnam you can buy GPUs by the Kilo

The Vietnamese man Lê Thành, who is known as "The King of VGA," posted a series of photos on Facebook that show people selling graphics cards on the streets of Vietnam as if they were selling food. In the pictures, there are a lot of GPUs stacked on the floor. You can even see a scale, as if graphics cards could be bought by the kilogramme.

But it is not clear to us whether this is a new way to sell GPUs or a way to make fun of the fact that there are too many cards being used for mining. In one of the pictures, a motorcyclist stops to buy a couple of these graphics cards.Even if it is a joke or not, many  people who wanted to buy graphics cards commented on the article and asked if they shipped the products outside of Vietnam. For example, people from Holland and Italy who were interested in these GPUs commented on the article.

In the past few months, there has been a lot of talk about how mining for Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies led to a huge increase in the number of graphics cards on the market. The change from the PoW model to the PoS model has had a big effect on the mining market and, as a result, on the supply and demand of graphics cards. 

Also, when the 40 series comes out, the older and more popular RTX 30 models get a big price cut.



In Vietnam you can buy GPUs by the Kilo In Vietnam you can buy GPUs by the Kilo




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anticupidon



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#6069531 Posted on: 11/07/2022 10:27 AM
I wanted to write a witty, awesome reply, but I forgot it...
The crypto lords becoming crypto streets sellers.

ocsystem
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#6069534 Posted on: 11/07/2022 10:47 AM
Wow

Sufferage
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#6069542 Posted on: 11/07/2022 11:13 AM
It's just a joke, there was an Article in the Austrian Newspaper Der Standard a few days ago :D

https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000140406340/haendler-in-vietnam-verkauft-grafikkarten-nach-kilopreis

Obviously, that's in German :p

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#6069543 Posted on: 11/07/2022 11:20 AM
So we no longer use TFLOPs to assess GPUs, we now use Kg. :D

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#6069562 Posted on: 11/07/2022 12:18 PM
I will have 3 kilos, please. :p

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