Back in 2021, AMD’s data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/ps5-apu-powered-mining-gpu-hits-ebay-for-dollar500-a-ps5-chip-with-two-less-cpu-cores-and-half-the-memory-that-consumes-around-90w” target=”_blank” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/ps5-apu-powered-mining-gpu-hits-ebay-for-dollar500-a-ps5-chip-with-two-less-cpu-cores-and-half-the-memory-that-consumes-around-90w”>crypto-mining-focused BC-250 graphics card, powered by the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/sony” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/sony”>Sony PlayStation 5’s APU instead of regular GPU chips, started popping up on eBay for around $500. Fast forward to the present day, and similar units are now available in China for as low as £96, or about $120. One such unit was ordered and procured by the creator of the YouTube channel data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ6ghjRBFGQ” data-url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ6ghjRBFGQ” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>Budget-Builds Official, notably sold as the “PS5 graphics card.”
The unit received by the YouTuber indeed looked like a GPU; however,…
