The issue of fake GeForce graphics cards circulating on Chinese e-commerce platforms has been a big issue for some time now.However, a new report from my driver (opens in new tab) It suggests that Nvidia is finally doing something about it. News publications claim the chipmaker is working with China’s top e-commerce company to eradicate counterfeit GeForce gaming graphics cards, which are common tenants on the best graphics card lists.
Lesser-known graphics card brands such as 51RISC, Corn, and MLLSE were previously confined to the Chinese domestic market. However, these brands have quietly entered the U.S. market over the years through platforms such as eBay and, more recently, third-party marketplaces such as Amazon and Newegg. Most of the time, consumers find his GeForce graphics cards of these Chinese brands at low prices, and sometimes with ridiculous price tags. Common sense would tell you to avoid them and stick to Nvidia’s official partners. However, inexperienced consumers occasionally fall for lower prices.
With the demise of the Ethereum mining boom, remnants of worn-out mining graphics cards remained on the market. Some sellers repaint the old graphics card memory his chip and sell it on the used market. Some companies are repurposing mobile graphics cards into desktop formats, creating fake names like the GeForce RTX 3070 TiM.
According to MyDrivers, Nvidia denies any relationship with these fake brands and stresses that they are not official partners. Furthermore, the report claims that chip makers do not know how counterfeit brands produce counterfeit products, resulting in Nvidia working with e-commerce platforms to fake his GeForce graphics cards. It looks like you’re trying to remove the .
Nvidia’s efforts seem to have paid off quickly. Well-known Chinese platforms, including JD.com and Douyin, have cleaned the house and sold used, refurbished, and mis-advertised GeForce RTX 20-series (Turing), GTX 16-series (Turing), and GTX 10 Limited sales. series (Pascal) graphics cards. Pinduoduo and Tmall have followed suit with new second-hand and refurbished sales policies.
Nvidia has shared three key tips to help consumers avoid buying counterfeit graphics cards. First, the chip maker is reportedly encouraging users to purchase GeForce RTX 40 series (Ada Lovelace) graphics cards. Ada was launched after the mining boom, so there shouldn’t be any recycled GeForce RTX 4090 or GeForce RTX 4080 mining graphics cards. Secondly, the consumer has to buy from his Nvidia official partners such as Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, Zotac to name a few. Finally, he understandably said that for consumers who don’t want to spend a lot of money on GeForce RTX 40 series products, the GeForce RTX 30 series (Ampere) is still pretty good. However, Nvidia ostensibly suggests that consumers opt for his GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X or his improved post-mining boom SKU along the GeForce RTX 3060 8GB line to avoid counterfeits. I’m here.
It’s great that Nvidia has addressed rogue GeForce graphics cards. However, there are still 51RISC and MLLSE graphics cards left, so we’re hoping the chip maker’s crackdown will extend to the US market.
