Overview
- A Hong Kong eBay seller is offering pre-modded RTX 2080 Ti cards that report roughly 22,528 MB of VRAM for about $499–$529, according to multiple outlets.
- Listing photos, GPU‑Z screenshots and at least dozens of buyer reviews support the seller’s claim that the cards arrive functioning with larger VRAM pools.
- Modders increase capacity by replacing the card’s memory chips, for example swapping eleven 1GB modules for eleven 2GB modules, a process shops can perform for a fee.
- The extra VRAM gives the Turing‑era 2080 Ti enough headroom to run local large language model inference and some diffusion tasks but the older Tensor Core precision limits and blower‑style coolers make heavy diffusion slower.
- The mod undercuts used high‑VRAM alternatives like Titan RTX and RTX 3090 and reflects wider memory shortages that are driving creative secondary‑market fixes while raising provenance, warranty and fraud risks for buyers.