# China black market Nvidia prices rocket in wake of smuggling crackdown and customs freeze — five-year-old A100 servers triple in price, now fetching up to $82,000

> Chinese companies are paying as much as 600,000 Chinese Yuan ($82,000) for servers built around Nvidia's five-year-old A100 accelerator and modifying gaming GPUs to run AI workloads, as a U. S.

- **Source:** [Tom's Hardware](https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpu-drivers/five-year-old-nvidia-a100-servers-triple-in-price-in-china?utm_source=gearopen.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=feed&utm_content=6a3bcbb177d114dc16fa5c60)
- **Published:** 2026-06-24
- **Category:** Gaming
- **Tags:** #nvidia #rtx #ai
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