RCHeliguy
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What I've "heard" is that they are using 3090 chips that had a certain range of failed processing units that they can map around. So lets say you have a chunk of the 3090's that are not up to snuff, but you designed the firmware in such a way that you can just bypass the bad cores. They've done this before.
So they put these marginal 3090's aside until they build up a reasonable supply of them and then they map around the bad processing units and put them in a card with less memory and make some profit off of them.
Other than branding the new cards, printing 3080TI on the chip covers and setting up a separate assembly line for the memory they are getting, they are out nothing and it costs them no additional production capacity.
So they put these marginal 3090's aside until they build up a reasonable supply of them and then they map around the bad processing units and put them in a card with less memory and make some profit off of them.
Other than branding the new cards, printing 3080TI on the chip covers and setting up a separate assembly line for the memory they are getting, they are out nothing and it costs them no additional production capacity.
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