RTX 2080 Ti With 22GB of VRAM Shows Real Performance Gains
With current-generation graphics cards priced beyond what most people can afford, some hardware fans are modding older cards to make them more capable, as VideoCardz reports. A popular option is the RTX 2080 Ti, which can be upgraded with 22GB of VRAM—double its original 11GB. In some early performance testing of this modded card, the results are very real and suggest it might be worth doing if you have the know-how or extra cash on hand.
A PCGamesHardware reader bought the card off Alibaba and replaced its 1GB chips with 2GB ones before sending it off to the publication for testing. With 22GB instead of its standard 11GB, the GPU had more memory than every RTX 50-series and RX 9000 card (outside of the ultra-expensive RTX 5090, that is).
The card still has its original 352-bit memory bus, delivering 616GB/s of memory bandwidth, but the doubled capacity should...
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