300 Nvidia GPUs Seized After High Speed Boat Chase (extremetech.com) 24
ExtremeTech's Joel Hruska tells the story of a recent high-speed boat chase involving up to 300 Nvidia CMP 30HX GPUs. From the report: Our movie-like story kicked off with Chinese authorities detaining a fishing boat anchored near Hong Kong International Airport. Men on the fishing boat were swapping cargo over to a speedboat. When authorities approached, the smugglers hopped into the speedboat and fled. While the customs officials were unable to apprehend the smugglers in the subsequent high-speed chase, the hapless fishing boat owner was unable to get away. Confiscated goods, according to THG, included sea cucumbers, shark fins, and other various tech products and gadgets. The graphics cards were considered a surprise.
There's a certain dark hilarity in imagining drug dealers across the world offering their clientele multiple ounces of weed or an RTX 3060, but in this case, the haul consisted of low-end 30HX CMP cards. Nvidia offers a range of CMP cards, with performance ranging from 26MH/s to 86MH/s. The 30HX and 40HX are believed to be based on Turing silicon -- the GTX 1660 Super and RTX 2070, respectively. The 50X and 90HX are harder to pin down. The 50HX is a touch faster than the known mining performance of the RTX 2080 Ti, while the 90HX is about 10 percent slower than the known mining performance of an RTX 3080. If the 50HX is based on the RTX 2080 Ti, it's fielding a smaller amount of VRAM; the RTX 2080 Ti offered 11GB, while the 50HX has just 10GB.
There's a certain dark hilarity in imagining drug dealers across the world offering their clientele multiple ounces of weed or an RTX 3060, but in this case, the haul consisted of low-end 30HX CMP cards. Nvidia offers a range of CMP cards, with performance ranging from 26MH/s to 86MH/s. The 30HX and 40HX are believed to be based on Turing silicon -- the GTX 1660 Super and RTX 2070, respectively. The 50X and 90HX are harder to pin down. The 50HX is a touch faster than the known mining performance of the RTX 2080 Ti, while the 90HX is about 10 percent slower than the known mining performance of an RTX 3080. If the 50HX is based on the RTX 2080 Ti, it's fielding a smaller amount of VRAM; the RTX 2080 Ti offered 11GB, while the 50HX has just 10GB.
Re:2021 Baby (Score:5, Funny)
Was anyone else humming the Miami Vice theme song while reading this, or was it just me?
Speed test. (Score:5, Funny)
Well this is one speed test one's not going to see at Anandtech.
Imagine (Score:2)
Downvote this (Score:1, Troll)
CCP Stops (Score:2)
Too bad (Score:2)
They got caught because their boat's flame rate was too high.
use a sub next time, like the mafia!!! (Score:2)
use a sub next time, like the mafia!!!
Um... they're for Bitcoin & Eth mining (Score:2, Interesting)
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That's just what we need (Score:2)
The freaking cops taking mining GPUs out of the hands of miners so they're FORCED to continue buying gaming GPUs.
Geez, thanks guys...how about kicking the dog on the way out?
Nice Ad (Score:2, Interesting)
Nice Ad. The "article" even had nice product breakdowns of hash speed and availability when reporting on the "seizure".
You guys actually believe this shiiite still?
The point was to make sure you know the CMP cards exist, their performance, pricepoint, and now you know.
Soon you'd need a lincese...for a GPU? (Score:2)
...same way you'd need one for a gun?
It gets much weirder (Score:3, Informative)
> world offering their clientele multiple ounces of weed or an RTX 3060
It gets much weirder than that. In the immediate vicinity of Hong Kong, the number one most frequently smuggled item is baby formula. I kid you not. There's also a particular brand of chocolates that's quite frequently smuggled through Hong Kong. The list goes on, and many of the entries on the list make you go "Wait, what? WHY?"
Fundamentally, black markets and smuggling emerge when governments try to restrict things that people want to buy and sell. Virtually all governments restrict some things, so you *expect* black markets to emerge for typical contraband items like weapons, drugs, and copyright violations. That's pretty normal throughout much of the world. But certain kinds of governments like to go on weird power trips and restrict all sorts of things, just to exert their totalitarian machismo or whatever, and China is the all-time international poster child for this. And while China does get imports in other ports, almost all of the *passenger* traffic into China goes through Hong Kong, and so that's where the contraband mules must go as well. And they do, in large numbers.
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i think it is intentional
the government welcomes the existence of black markets even if it does not directly interact with them
makes it easier to justify increased policing? not that they needed any justification for it
also people have whatever they want without the government ever getting into trouble. Chocolate was poisoned? Well, too bad, because if you complain to the government you'll be poisoned *and* handcuffed. So the poisoned guy gets out of the way, without leaving evidence and the rest of the peo
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nothing beats safran
i think, per weight, it costs more than gold
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The abnormally high demand for baby formula in China (particularly in mainland China) is a consequence of several factors, which combine to reduce the breast feeding rate to nearly zero. One factor is that infants are often raised by their grandparents; this is a result of social upheavals that have hap
I'm reminded of the scene in Deal of the Century (Score:2)
2 months supply (Score:2)
Are they really GPUs? (Score:1)
Are they really GPUs when they don't have video out ports of any kind?