300 Nvidia GPUs Seized After High Speed Boat Chase (extremetech.com)
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/21/04/09/2047233/300-nvidia-gpus-seized-after-high-speed-boat-chase
- Source link: https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/321647-300-nvidia-mining-gpus-seized-after-high-speed-boat-chase
> 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, [2]according to THG , included sea cucumbers, shark fins, and other various tech products and gadgets. The graphics cards were considered a surprise.
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> 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.
[1] https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/321647-300-nvidia-mining-gpus-seized-after-high-speed-boat-chase
[2] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/gpu-smugglers-300-nvidia-cmp-30hx-gpus
Speed test. (Score:4, Funny)
Well this is one speed test one's not going to see at Anandtech.
Imagine (Score:1)
Getting organ-harvested because of a shitcoin obsession.
Downvote this (Score:2)
Crypto should be illegal.
CCP Stops (Score:2)
CCP smuggling operation approved news at 11
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)
which are popular with money launderers. This isn't a surprise to anyone who knows anything. Even the cops must have known what they were for.
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)
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:1)
There's a certain dark hilarity in imagining drug dealers across the
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
I'm reminded of the scene in Deal of the Century (Score:2)
Where Chevy Chase was an arms dealer and to close a deal he agreed to include a Sony Trinitron TV. Maybe that's what nVidia cards are now, status symbols. P.S. Disclaimer: Lol, I had to buy a custom PC to get it, but I have my RTX 3080 now. With an AMD 5900x as well. Probably my only purchase that increased in value after I bought it. Fwiw, I was due for an upgrade.
Re: (Score:2)
Was anyone else humming the Miami Vice theme song while reading this, or was it just me?