The Gaming Brief:
- Shenzhen Suqiao Intelligent Technology lists a modified RTX 5090 with 96GB VRAM, triple the card’s stock 32GB
- Price sits at $3,888, roughly 35% below standard RTX 5090 pricing in the U.S.
- Modification reportedly uses a custom PCB with clamshell memory and possibly leaked Nvidia firmware
- Listing surfaces as Washington rewrites export rules on which Nvidia chips can legally reach China
A Chinese manufacturer, Shenzhen Suqiao Intelligent Technology, has listed a modified GeForce RTX 5090 carrying 96GB of VRAM on Alibaba for $3,888, tripling the card’s factory 32GB. Suqiao is an OEM/ODM with over a decade of building GPUs, motherboards, and servers, lending the listing more credibility than a typical gray-market shop.
Suqiao’s Custom PCB Mirrors Nvidia’s Own RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
As Tom’s Guide notes, the modification relies on a custom-built PCB using clamshell memory, populating chips on both sides of the board to double capacity.
The same technique Nvidia itself uses on the RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell, which ships with 96GB of GDDR7 memory on the same GB202 die.
Creating a modded RTX 5090 like this requires either buying the main GB202 processor chip directly or carefully removing and re-soldering chips taken off official retail graphics cards, according to Tom’s Hardware.
Listed specs mentioning GDDR6X at 14 Gbps raise doubts, since Micron’s GDDR6X modules top out at 16 Gbps, so even using a double-sided clamshell setup with these older chips would cap the total memory at around 48GB, making the 96GB claim questionable.
Leaked Firmware Echoes the RTX 4090 48GB Precedent
Running a GPU with altered memory capacity requires modified or leaked firmware, the same approach Chinese workshops used to push the RTX 4090 to 48GB and the RTX 3090 to 48GB, along with modded 4080 and 3080 models.
Buyers taking this route also forgo any official warranty, a familiar trade-off in the gray market, where lower prices consistently come paired with zero official support.
Timing Lines Up With Tightening U.S. Export Controls
Suqiao’s listing undercuts Nvidia’s own RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell, officially priced between $16,000 and $17,999, while other Alibaba sellers ask closer to $5,900 for similar 96GB rebuilds.
The emergence of a cheaper, unauthorized high-VRAM option comes as Washington revises which Nvidia chips can legally ship to China.
That policy backdrop could give Chinese buyers added incentive to seek AI-capable memory capacity through modified consumer cards rather than restricted enterprise hardware.
Source: China-modified Nvidia RTX 5090 with massive 96GB of memory
