A Chinese manufacturer is now selling a modified GeForce RTX 5090 with 96 GB of memory, three times the 32 GB of the commercial card. Shenzhen Suqiao Intelligent Technology, an OEM/ODM with more than a decade of experience building graphics cards, motherboards and servers, listed the card on Alibaba for $3,888. That’s about 35% less than what a standard RTX 5090 currently costs in the US, and a fraction of what NVIDIA charges for its RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell. The latter uses the same GB202 die and now starts at a whopping $16,000. Suqiao likely built this with a custom PCB running clamshell memory, packing GDDR7 modules on both sides of the board to double its capacity, the same approach NVIDIA uses in the Pro 6000. The GPU die may come from harvested RTX 5090 units, reballed onto the new board and running on leaked or modified firmware, a method Chinese workshops already used to bring the RTX 4090 to 48GB. VRAM. However, the listing raises some questions as it mentions 14Gbps GDDR6X memory, which doesn’t match a genuine 96GB Blackwell version. Other Alibaba sellers are apparently asking around $5,900 for similar cards, so Suqiao’s price is on the low end even within this gray market. If legitimate, it would give AI developers a much cheaper way to get large pools of VRAM without paying workstation prices, although buyers would assume firmware instability and receive no official support in return.
