Leaked video shows thousands of RTX 5090 cards being dismantled for AI servers
10/24/2026 — 10/24, 20:25·2 sources (all)·2 reports (all)
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- A leaked video reviewed by Tom's Hardware shows thousands of consumer RTX 5090 cards, including Founders Edition units, being dismantled to…
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According to a cnBeta report on 2026-10-24, citing Wccftech and other hardware outlets, factories in China have begun disassembling retail GeForce RTX 5090 gaming cards and repackaging them as AI accelerators. In these operations, the GPU die and memory chips are removed from the consumer graphics boards and soldered onto purpose-built server circuit boards, which are then fitted with cooling systems suited to data center deployment. The resulting boards repurpose what was originally a high-end gaming product for AI computing workloads. The report is based on recent video material reviewed by Wccftech and the other outlets cited. As this is the only account available so far, the end destinations of the modified cards remain unspecified in the available material.
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Latest turnLeaked footage reported by Tom's Hardware shows thousands of consumer RTX 5090s, including Founders Editions, being torn apart to feed AI server demand, explaining why the card has been so hard to buy. The incident shows AI compute appetite directly squeezing consumer GPU supply, which matters to gamers tracking prices and anyone watching the hardware supply chain.
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Leaked footage reported by Tom's Hardware shows thousands of consumer RTX 5090s, including Founders Editions, being torn apart to feed AI server demand, explaining why the card has been so hard to buy. The incident shows AI compute appetite directly squeezing consumer GPU supply, which matters to gamers tracking prices and anyone watching the hardware supply chain.
Tom's HardwareAI score 55Chinese production lines are dismantling retail GeForce RTX 5090 cards and rebuilding them as AI accelerators by moving the GPU core and memory chips onto server boards with data-center cooling, according to Wccftech and other hardware media cited by cnBeta. The move puts high-end gaming cards into AI computing and has renewed scrutiny over their supply and end use.
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