NVIDIA Marketplace Briefly Lists "Acme GeForce RTX 4040 8 GB BRICK Edition"

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Perusers of the NVIDIA US Marketplace noticed a listing of an "Acme GeForce RTX 4040 8 GB BRICK Edition" product. Prior to a fresh removal, this mystery item was not in stock—reflecting the short supply of many GeForce RTX 50-series offerings. An advertised £$0.00" price indicates internal placeholder or jokey origins. After all, graphics card-related scams have involved the swiping of genuine articles—craftily replaced with similarly weighted substitutes. In some cases actual bricks, or—very recently—multiple cross-body backpacks stuffed into retail packages. According to news reports, NVIDIA's past-gen BRICK SKU is equipped with an impressive set of amusing features: "durable casing, passive cooling, absolute silence, and zero dependency on drivers." On a serious note, Team Green's desktop "Ada Lovelace" gaming card generation never dipped below the GeForce RTX 4060 tier. TechPowerUp's GPU database lists an unreleased GeForce RTX 4050 model—leakers believe that a direct successor will turn up in July.



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[LastDudeALive]

Whoops, some intern pushed their funny joke to the production website, not the internal test website.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I think the "Boost Clock Speed" depends on how hard you can throw it.

 

[Daven]

I think the "Boost Clock Speed" depends on how hard you can throw it.

“The way it’s meant to be thrown.”

 

[Philaphlous]

Well hope someone doesn't brick the bios on this....

 

[RaceT3ch]

Finally, nVidia knows what their GPUs that cost less than $600 are.

 

[jnv11]

That mention of Acme is reminding me of a really old edutainment game that I really liked and is making me think of a joke:

Carmen Sandiego or a member of her V.I.L.E. gang must have stolen the world’s supply of affordable graphics processing units. The Acme Detective Agency has to track the thief down.

/s

 

[5 o'clock Charlie]

Well hope someone doesn't brick the bios on this....

If that doesn't happen, surely Windows will be broken...

 

[GerKNG]

At least the brick doesn‘t catch on fire.

 

[Rightness_1]

That's cleaver, as in, in a year, it will be a brick due to only having 8GB of VRAM! I see what you did there!

 

[Leooooo1061]

At least we don't have to worry about GPU sag. Very likely the case will sag before it.