Made in China has always been unconventional and has no trace. It seems that the more money-losing a product is, the more companies dare to play with it. Recently, a company challenged to launch a graphics card made using a GPU released five years ago in 2023. Not only does the display memory have an exaggerated 16GB, but it also comes with a two-year warranty. It’s hard to say whether anyone will buy such a strange product, but since the manufacturer dares to offer such a specification, there may be some profit in it.
Kinology company from China, the Chinese brand name is Kanoji. The company isn’t actually well-known and isn’t a graphics card partner for AMD. What Kinology actually does is customize graphics cards that are different from the original specifications based on user requirements. For example, the AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP graphics card I saw this time, although it is the RX 580 GPU from 5 years ago, has doubled the display memory than before, reaching 16GB.
The RX 580, which is more than five years old, can become a new product through magic modification
To some computer gamers, or digital gamers as Chinese netizens often call it, this kind of card may actually be a graphics card that is too rubbish to be trashed. But for poor users with low budgets, or users who particularly need large display memory, this card makes sense.
Of course, with the performance of the RX 580, does having 16GB of display memory really help? Foreign media Wccftech believes that although the performance of this card is improved compared to the original RX 580, the improvement is uncomfortable. For players who want to play games, such a card is really unacceptable, but some people think that this card is very good, that is, the mine owner who runs a virtual currency encryption mining farm
The graphics card itself can run on the original factory’s WHQL-certified 23.5.2 driver. Therefore, it can be known that the GPU has not been modified, but is a GPU chip produced by the original factory. However, over the years, the performance has not been as good as that of many new cards. If you use China’s Master Lu software for performance testing, you can find that the running score is at least overtaking the previous rival card GTX 1650 and the mobile version RTX 3050, but lagging behind the GTX 1060. In terms of results, there has been little progress.
This type of special graphics card with “increased display memory” was actually very popular during the period when cryptocurrency investment was popular. As long as you buy a few of these graphics cards, you can build a mining machine at a cheap cost and start cryptographic operations to earn virtual coins. It’s just that after this wave of craze, this kind of modified cards seem a bit useless. Although the specifications are interesting, the important GPU has been produced many years ago. Even the mid-to-high-end cards of the past have a considerable performance gap compared with modern cards. Naturally, it is difficult to expect its performance.
In terms of selling price, the card is listed on JD.com for 599 yuan, which is about NT$2,600. For a graphics card that is commonly used by players or commonly used in computer assembly menus, it can be said to be surprisingly cheap. However, the price is a bit expensive for a GPU from five years ago. Perhaps the price is mainly due to modifications and extra memory particles. But for gaming purposes, it is completely useless. Maybe some people really like this configuration and even use it as a low-end mining machine component.
What else can a particularly large display memory do besides “calculation”? The author’s mind can’t think of any creative applications. At most, I can think of “Flooding Windows with Display Memory“Wonderful operation. There is 16GB of space, I believe it is reasonable to use it for some weird purposes.
Source: KOCPC Chinese