NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB GPU Modded To 44 GB VRAM
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 TI 11 GB GPU is the latest to have been modified with higher VRAM than its official specifications.
NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Gets 44 GB VRAM Mod, 4 Times More Memory Than Original Spec
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti originally launched with 11 GB VRAM which was the highest you can get in the GeForce lineup during the Turing generation. The later iterations on Ampere & Ada architectures saw a memory capacity increase of up to 24 GB on the flagship cards but it looks like that some Chinese modders took the old card and equipped it with four times the memory that it originally carried.
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The graphics card is equipped with a 352-bit bus interface and while it supported 12 memory dies on the PCB, only 11 were used as the full 384-bit bus was used by the Titan RTX which also carried 24 GB of GDDR6 memory. The memory dies for the GPU only operated at 14 Gbps which can now be run up to 24 Gbps. So what the modders did was a simple replacement mod.
NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB GPU has been modded with 44 GB memory. Image Credits: @wxnod
All of the 11 8 Gb dies were removed from the front and replaced with 16 Gb dies, each offering 2 GB capacities. Even the back of the PCB was populated with 12 of the same 16 Gb die which should have resulted in a total of 48 GB VRAM but since the card only features a 352-bit bus firmware, the card only managed to detect 11 VRAM dies on the front and the back of the PCB.
Since each of the 22 VRAM dies featured 2 GB VRAM, that rounds up to a total of 44 GB of total capacity which was running at the same 14 Gbps die speed, delivering 616 GB/s of bandwidth. Prices of VRAM are falling each day and 8 GB of GDDR6 VRAM only costs $25 US which makes us wonder why aren't NVIDIA and AMD taking advantage of the prices and adding more VRAM to entry-level cards such as the RTX 4060 and RX 7600.
The modded 44 GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics card is shown to boot just fine in the OS but it is unknown if the graphics card can actually run any application. Wxnod himself states that the card cannot run any games so as expected, the mod is useless. Mods like these are a one-off thing and are unofficial. The RTX 2080 Ti is several years old now and has been replaced with much more powerful and efficient offerings.
News Source: @wxnod
Source: Wccftech
