Monday, April 24th 2023
Modded NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 With 16 GB of VRAM Shows Impressive Performance Uplift
A memory mod for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 that doubles the amount of VRAM showed some impressive performance gains, especially in the most recent games. While the mod was more complicated than earlier ones, since it required some additional PCB soldering, the one tested game shows incredible performance boost, especially in the 1%, 0.1% lows, and the average frame rate.
Modding the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 to 16 GB VRAM is not a bad idea, since NVIDIA already planned a similar card (RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB), but eventually cancelled it. With today games using more than 8 GB of VRAM, it means that some RTX 30 series graphics card can struggle with pushing playable FPS. The modder benchmarked the new Resident Evil 4 at very high settings, showing that those additional 8 GB of VRAM is the difference between stuttering and smooth gameplay.
As said, the recent mod is a bit more complicated than the earlier one done on some earlier graphics cards, as some resistors needed to be grounded in order to support higher-capacity memory ICs, and the modded graphics card had to be set to high-performance mode in the NVIDIA Control Panel, in order to fix flickering.
AMD marketing has recently called out NVIDIA and pulled the VRAM card, but with NVIDIA launching the GeForce RTX 4070 with 12 GB of VRAM, it appears this won't change anytime soon. These mods show that there is definitely the need for more VRAM, at least in some games.
Sources:
Paulo Gomes (Youtube), via Videocardz
Modding the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 to 16 GB VRAM is not a bad idea, since NVIDIA already planned a similar card (RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB), but eventually cancelled it. With today games using more than 8 GB of VRAM, it means that some RTX 30 series graphics card can struggle with pushing playable FPS. The modder benchmarked the new Resident Evil 4 at very high settings, showing that those additional 8 GB of VRAM is the difference between stuttering and smooth gameplay.
AMD marketing has recently called out NVIDIA and pulled the VRAM card, but with NVIDIA launching the GeForce RTX 4070 with 12 GB of VRAM, it appears this won't change anytime soon. These mods show that there is definitely the need for more VRAM, at least in some games.
80 Comments on Modded NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 With 16 GB of VRAM Shows Impressive Performance Uplift
We are lucky we have AMD, because we get to enjoy all the same stuff on a budget, which is why I advocatef or AMD sometimes. If I get a 60k a year job though I'd probably grab a 4090 too lol
Honestly, can anyone logically argue that their performance have been gimped due to 8GB VRAM? I feel that nVidia is doing likewise with the RTX 4070 series cards, the RTX 4070/4070 Ti deserve more VRAM, 12GB is perhaps enough for now, but in one to two short years, might show a weakness due to VRAM. The RTX 4070 is about as fast as the RTX 3080 Ti, with the RTX 4070 Ti being a fair bit faster, yet they have the same amount of VRAM as near flagship card from two years ago.
Can probably just tweak settings at higher resolutions to stay within it. Easier than modding hardware.
I don't get what is so difficult to test thing in realistic scenarios, not ultra settings, not 4090's at 1080p. It's infuriating.
I'm sorry but they are sellers, all of them, they want to sell you their videos, they make a living from our clicks, testing realistic scenarios is not click material.
Next we'll be testing Cyberpunk in 4k using a 3dfx, using no keyboard and one hand tied behind my back while drinking cola and eating pizza driving down the highway, because lols