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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Hassam Nasir

Reviewer tests 'RTX 4080M' desktop graphics card powered by salvaged laptop silicon — performs worse than slightly more expensive RX 9070 GRE but draws only 100W in games

"RTX 4080M" modded discrete GPU.

A Chinese reviewer on Bilibili by the name of 杰某 (Jie Mou) got his hands on a special RTX 4080 graphics card that uses a mobile core instead of a desktop one. These GPUs emerged after the Trump admin banned the sale of RTX 4090s in the region, which forced local sellers to resort to strange alternatives, one of which is the supposed "RTX 4080M." It's a custom, modded GPU that doesn't come with a warranty or official drivers, and the benchmarks show it doesn't offer world-beating value either.

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