The demand for video cards from the RTX 50 series in China, especially by RTX 5090, is being strongly driven by DeepSeek’s success, according to The Information website. As demand grows, the unit supply remains scarce, so it is already possible to find the RTX 5090 in the country’s parallel market reached values ​​such as $ 5,000 ($ 28,950), says the site.
“DeepSek’s fired popularity has boosted the demand for chips for Nvidia games in the underground market, as technology companies realize that they can run Deepseek models for a fraction of the price of AI chips, according to smugglers,” says an excerpt from the report on The Information.
It is interesting to remember that Nvidia cannot sell RTX 5090 in China, officially. For this reason the company created RTX 5090D.
However, companies have resorted to the parallel and smugglers to get the restricted model, as it is still cheaper to invest in GPU with much inflated values ​​than buying a dedicated AI accelerator like H20.
RTX 5090 seems to be the preference in China
The high demand for RTX 5090 units indicates that possibly China companies are not yet convinced by local GPUS advances.
Domestic companies like Zhaoxin of Processor and GPUS Moore Threads have taken advantage of DeepSeek’s popularity to promote the capacity of its products with the company’s AI technology. Not only that, Deepseek itself stressed how Huawei’s Ascend 910C can perform very satisfactory to run its AI model.
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Still, the search for RTX 5090 in China is so large that more than doubled the price of the GPU. With this video card reaching such high values ​​in the parallel market, it is to wonder how many units are being directed there, and how much this can impact the scarcity of the model in other countries.
Via: WCCFTech
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Source: https://www.adrenaline.com.br/nvidia/geforce-rtx-5090-e-vendida-por-ate-us-5-mil-no-mercado-paralelo-chines/
