>some people genuinely believe this

The Chinese will simply steal whatever Intel or AMD or even IBM makes, they aren't going to be making any OC ever

i mean tbh

i'd expect the chinese graphics cards are just reference design but with some cheaper parts

probably more cheaply made pcbg as well

not about to drop money on any to verify that but

by cheaper parts i'm talking like "hey why get the $0.01 resistor for R25 when we could get the $0.001 one

not "let's use a cheaper gpu and mislabel it:"

It'll work probably but no one really thinks it's going to be anything but a much cheaper and slightly lower performance intel card

"why use a $4 fan in the cooler when we could use a $2 fan

"silkscreen on the pcb? who even looks at those, leave it off"

"let's make this slave child drill out the board instead of the expensive robot" is also a possibility

the fact that they still cost a few hundred tells me they're using legit amd/intel/nvidia gpus on the chinese video cards since that one part is nearly the entire cost of the card

They legit bought some old CPU architecture (most likely for next to nothing) and upgraded it. It was dirt cheap to manufacture (not paying for the intel inside sticker), so they can easily get a powerful supercomputer. Just increase the number of CPUs in the machine until you get acceptable performance.
Source: my father who is in the supercomputer business (as a buyer).

also yeah china does actually design stuff too

just they aren't sitting there designing their own gpus then labeling them as nvidia/amd

there's no reason for them to so they will not

malware on the hardware? no point spending so much on engineering for something that simple

hardwarewise you can do that with an off the shelf part that costs a few cents

so software engineering only instead of that _and_ designing new expensive part

just grab yourself a bootleg microcontroller out of shenzhen and you have everything you need

Aren't Zotac and Colorful chink GPU vendors? They're probably just Colorful factory rejects

and colorful are already trash tier right?

Zotac are okay, no idea about them

They rarely pop up

yeah zotac are legit but colorful always seem off from my impressions, not that i have many

Sapphire are chink too

They look like Sapphire design to me

Maybe just Sapphire rejects

The 580 looks like a black spray painted Sapphire cooler

the sapphire rx580 was actually pretty nice looking iirc, not much gamer aesthetic

unless they had different versions

Yeah I've always bought their cards

Never had an issue

comfy you know when you put "historical low" on your hot deals, how you keeping track of that?

They sometimes bother to put it in the listing

But I've noticed they'll pretend some other deals didn't exist to make the current one look better

Is this a chink face mask?

smash that mf'in buy now button

yeah they wear those on the underground