Graphics Cards sold in the regular market in Pakistan are vastly expensive compared to those bought in the West. This is due to the country's heavy taxation of levied on the products—which can be up to 36% of the sales price—besides retailer mark-ups. Some gamers prefer to import their cards by having friends or family returning from abroad bring along a graphics card purchased abroad, or have them ship it over. The Pakistani government developed an innovative way to assess import-duty on these cards in the wake of people undervaluing the goods—memory.

Customs officers now have a government guideline on what to assume the market-price of a graphics card could be. A 4 GB card will be assessed as a USD 65 product, a 6 GB card as $98, an 8 GB card as $196, a 10 GB card as $262, a 12 GB card as $328, a 16 GB card as $468, and a 24 GB card as $540. As techies on the Pakistani social media have rightly pointed out, this will incentivize people to choose graphics cards with the lower amount of memory within a performance segment. For example, the Radeon RX 6800 XT with its 16 GB of memory stands no chance against the GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB, with the two cards being assessed vastly differently for customs duty. Between the 8 GB and 4 GB variants of a card, such as the RX 6500 XT, it makes vastly more sense to opt for the 4 GB variant.