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Nvidia Is Finally Doing Something About the RAM Apocalypse
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Nvidia Is Finally Doing Something About the RAM Apocalypse

Gizmodo·Kyle Barr·about 1 month ago
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Over the last few months, Nvidia has let the RAM crisis stampede over its revered RTX 50-series graphics cards. Now, it’s finally offering a little more bang for your buck on lower-end GPUs, though—unfortunately—only for laptops. It’s a small start to tackling the industry-spanning problems that have made PC gaming way too expensive. Nvidia, still the most valuable company in the world thanks to its AI training chips, shared new plans for versions of the mobile version of its GeForce RTX 5070. The discrete GPU originally had 8GB of VRAM. This limitation hinders the GPU’s ability to support higher resolutions in games, like 1440p or 4K. In a blog post , Nvidia said it’s introducing a 12GB VRAM configuration of the RTX 5070. It’s enough to push a lower-end gaming laptop harder than you currently can on devices like the Razer Blade 14 . Here’s the full statement: “Demand for GeForce RTX GPUs remains strong, and memory supply is constrained.…

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