Check for a Fake Nvidia Graphics Card with GPU-Z

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[Right now, the market is full of fake, low-quality NVIDIA graphics cards whose BIOS has been modified by dishonest sellers for profit. If you’re not careful, you may well buy a graphics card that looks new but actually has an old GPU
The chance that you’ll buy a fake NVIDIA graphics card is real, especially when you buy through e-commerce sites. However, there is now a new and extremely quick way to check whether the graphics card you just bought is fake.

According to Bleeping Computer, some sellers have been modifying low-end Nvidia graphics cards and selling them online as more powerful models. In a recent version of GPU-Z, a utility that helps check graphics information on a computer, TechPowerUp has added the ability to detect these fake Nvidia graphics cards.

This new feature lets buyers of graphics cards detect whether a card is one of the NVIDIA G84, G86, G92, G94, G96, GT215, GT216, GT218, GF108, GF106, GF114, GF108, GF106, GF114, GF116, GF119, or GK106 graphics cards by showing an exclamation mark where the Nvidia logo normally appears, and it may also add the string “FAKE” before the graphics card’s name.

TechPowerUp said: “We have worked extensively on GPU-Z’s ability to detect fake NVIDIA graphics cards (for example, cards that don’t actually have the GPU advertised on the box). GPU-Z now adds the word “FAKE” before the graphics card’s name and a glowing triangle warning people to be cautious. This ability works with the supported GPUs (listed in the changelog), so, for example, it will be able to detect a fake RTX 2060 that actually uses a GK106 GPU”.

You can see an example of how a legitimate Nvidia card and a fake one will appear below.

When you use GPU-Z v2.13.0 to check a graphics card, if it detects a fake card, a black exclamation mark inside a yellow triangle will appear in place of the NVIDIA logo, and the word FAKE will appear before the card’s name.
In addition, GPU-Z v2.13.0 can also extract the BIOS of RTX 2000 cards and control each fan independently. Users can now visit the link below to download GPU-Z v2.13.0 completely free and try it out.