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We ran the same models on an RTX 5090, a Radeon AI PRO R9700, an RTX PRO 6000, a pair of RTX 5070 Tis, a 64GB mining card and three datacenter GPUs, then put every card on one chart against the price it sells for today. Memory decides what you can run, bandwidth decides how fast, and the fastest card is the worst deal.
You'd think it was a trick question — Taiwan, TSMC, obviously. But that's one link in a chain of five: one company designs the chip, another fabricates it, a third packages it, a fourth solders it onto a board, and a fifth puts its name on the box. We traced all sixteen — six chip designers, ten board brands — to their headquarters, research sites and factories. Intel publishes every fab it owns. Sapphire publishes no address anywhere, in any language. Where the trail stops, we say so.