Modder creates a fully working 16GB RTX 3070 using VRAM from a dead AMD GPU
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In brief: Nvidia's RTX 3070 was a great graphics card that we loved at the time, but its 8GB of VRAM is becoming an issue as games demand more video memory. Now, a hardware modder has shown what the Ampere card might have looked like had Nvidia been a little more generous, creating a fully working RTX 3070 16GB using parts harvested from dead GPUs.
The project comes from ComputerBase forum member AssassinWarlord, who started with a Gigabyte RTX 3070 Gaming OC and an AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT with a dead GPU.
The RTX 3070 originally used eight 1GB Samsung GDDR6 chips for its standard 8GB configuration, while the Radeon card provided eight 2GB Samsung chips, enough to double the Nvidia card's memory capacity.
This was not a case of simply...
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