Guy installed an RTX 2080 Ti graphics card and put 44GB of VRAM in it!
Aspiring to never run out of memory again
Five years after its glory days, the once-coveted GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is back in the spotlight thanks to a creative modder . In particular, the modder successfully quadrupled the memory of the Turing flagship, upgrading it from 11GB to 44GB!
How did he do this? The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti has the same reference PCB as the Titan RTX, the last graphics card in Nvidia’s Titan series from the Turing architecture era. So this common PCB has room for 24 GDDR6 memory chips, with 12 slots on each side. However, both the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and the Titan RTX don’t use all of these slots, leaving room for… teasing .
So the clever modder took inspiration from the Titan RTX and took advantage of this fact, replacing the 1GB memory chips with 2GB versions from Samsung. Then fill all the remaining slots on the board. While a total of 48GB was added to the PCB, the design of the RTX 2080 Ti only allows access to 22 of the memory slots, bringing the total for the teased card to 44GB of GDDR6 memory.
Although the memory replacement did not affect the bandwidth, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti successfully detected all 44GB, as evidenced by the screenshot of the well-known GPU-Z program that you can see below.
Of course, this mod, as exciting as it is in theory, remains largely a simple experiment . Unfortunately, the upgraded GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is only capable of booting into the OS. Benchmarks and games are currently returning problems due to the lack of proper vBIOS and drivers.
