And more VRAM doesn't always mean more performance, and the pricing could make the RTX 5070 Ti a better value depending on final configurations. Nvidia Nvidia just announced a new GPU variant in the weirdest way possible: buried it in a game driver update blog post .  Alongside the release of its Game Ready 596.36 WHQL driver, the company also confirmed the launch of a 12GB GDDR7 configuration of the GeForce RTX 5070 laptop GPU .  Nvidia Why is Nvidia doing this now? The short answer: memory supply. Nvidia has already acknowledged that demand for its RTX GPUs exceeds the availability of the 16Gb G7 modules, which are currently used in most RTX 50-series products.  The new 12GB variant sidesteps the issue by using 24Gb G7 modules built on a different manufacturing process that produces 3GB chips instead of 2GB.…