TL;DR: NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3090 is being fraudulently rebranded as the RTX 4090, with scammers polishing and re-labeling the GPU die. This scam is prevalent in China, where GPUs are extracted ...

Gamers are still snapping up Nvidia's previous-gen RTX 4090, which explains the continued appearance of fake versions of the card. One trick is to use a die from an RTX 3090 series in the Lovelace ...

The creators reveal: The soldered-on graphics chips are probably GA102 GPUs from the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, RTX 3090 or RTX 3080 Ti. The correct labeling – is particularly perfidious: the GPUs ...

fitting the iconic Nvidia big-boy cooler to older RTX 3090 boards. In one instance, the scammer even went as far as polishing the GPU die itself and adding a fake RTX 4090 GPU label to the chip ...