Graphics Card / GPU Buyback

Models and families covered

NVIDIA enterprise — H100/H200/A100/A40/A30/A10/RTX 6000 Ada/RTX A6000/L40/L40S. AMD enterprise — MI300X/MI300A/MI250X/MI210/Instinct MI100. Intel — Gaudi3/Gaudi2 (Habana). NVIDIA workstation — RTX A-series, Quadro line. AMD workstation — Radeon Pro W-series.

Card-level vs system-level GPU buyback

Card-level buyback (loose GPU, OEM-pulled, or extracted from retired workstations) is the most flexible engagement model — single GPU through container loads accepted. System-level GPU server buyback (HGX/DGX/PowerEdge XE) routes through GPU Server Buyback. Most engagements combine both: cards extracted from retired servers buy back card-level; the chassis routes through general server buyback.

Per-card sanitisation for refurb resale

On-board memory (HBM, GDDR) is sanitised per NIST SP 800-88 — Cryptographic Erase where the card supports it, on-board memory test pattern overwrite where it does not. NVIDIA cards with NVLink: NVLink configuration cleared. AMD cards with Infinity Fabric Link: configuration cleared. Per-card certificate documents the sanitisation step and on-board memory state at retirement.

Workstation-grade vs data-centre-grade pricing

Workstation GPUs (RTX A-series, Quadro, Radeon Pro W-series) clear at firm but lower pricing than data-centre AI accelerators. Buyer base is creative-production, scientific computing, certain DSPs. Quote validity 14 days. Data-centre GPUs (H100, A100, MI300X, etc.) clear at premium pricing with 5-business-day quote validity.

Settlement and engagement mechanics

Settlement is in your reporting currency (CAD) against your purchase order, line-item per asset, payment terms agreed in the SOW. Programme engagements run on milestone-based settlement against the rolling pickup schedule with monthly true-up. Cross-border engagements (where the asset routes between Maxicom operating regions) are consolidated to your reporting-currency entity through internal Maxicom inter-company arrangements; the customer-facing transaction is single-currency. The SOW is structured per the Maxicom legal entity that contracts with you (Maxicom UAE, Maxicom India, Maxicom Singapore, Maxicom Canada, Maxicom Hong Kong); GST / VAT / HST / withholding-tax treatment is handled per local tax law. Quote validity follows the asset class — 14 days for steady-state enterprise hardware, 5 business days for AI accelerators where the secondary market re-prices weekly, 30 days for memory and components. We re-quote without penalty where the validity has lapsed and the customer is ready to transact.

Audit defensibility and certificate format

Every asset routed through this engagement receives a per-asset Certificate of Destruction with eleven required fields: serial number, make/model/capacity, data classification at retirement, sanitisation method (Clear/Purge/Destroy under NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 1, with the specific technique cited), particle size or field strength or encryption algorithm where applicable, sanitisation tool + version + verification response, UTC timestamp + facility location, operator name + ID + signature, witness signature where present, chain-of-custody reference back to the pickup manifest, and the destruction reason where Reuse-First triage was overridden. Certificates are admissible against OSFI B-13, PIPEDA, NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 1, IEEE 2883-2022, and (where contractually specified) DoD 5220.22-M and NAID-grade Protocol — one certificate covers all simultaneously. Certificate retention is 7 years default, 8+ years for BFSI engagements, longer where the master service agreement specifies.

Cross-border resale routing under NDA

Where local market depth in Canada cannot absorb the retiring volume at fair refurb pricing, working assets route cross-border through Maxicom's trader-channel network — MENA → ASEAN, IND → ASEAN + MENA, CA → US sub-tier markets and ASEAN, SG → MENA + ASEAN. The routing decision is made per asset-class at engagement scoping; the customer sees the routing on the SOW and can opt out where channel-respect or sovereign-data-residency rules require. NDA discipline is standard. Surplus does not return to your own market's primary channel without explicit consent. Export classification (US BIS for AI accelerators; equivalent local regimes for other restricted-class hardware) is handled before the trade closes; restricted-party screening is part of every cross-border transaction.

Reuse-First disposition KPIs reported back to you

Programme-level engagements receive quarterly business reviews covering: total tonnage processed, Reuse-First reuse rate (% refurbished and redeployed vs % destroyed by media class), residual value recovered in CAD, embodied-carbon-recovered estimate (CO₂e avoided by keeping working assets in service rather than replacing them with newly-manufactured hardware), diversion-from-landfill percentage, material-recovery breakdown, and exception reporting. The reporting format is mapped to your sustainability reporting framework — CSRD ESRS E5, ISSB IFRS S1/S2, BRSR Principle 6, GRI 301/305/306, SASB IT services standards. Single-event engagements receive the same data as a per-engagement summary attached to the consolidated certificate. The reuse-rate metric is the most informative KPI: our blended cohort typically runs around two-thirds reuse rate (indicative); programme engagements typically improve year-over-year as the engagement learns the asset mix.

Key models in our pipeline

H100 80GB · A100 80GB · A40 · RTX 6000 Ada · RTX A6000 · L40S · MI300X · MI250X · Gaudi3 · Quadro RTX 8000