GeForce RTX 3090 Could Be Improved With Upcoming 2 GB GDDR6X Modules

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The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 has not even hit the shelves yet and there is already speculation as to potential revisions. As NVIDIA continues to push the envelope in packing as much as possible into the flagship cards, it is ever riding the edge of what suppliers can provide for them. With the inclusion of GDDR6X memory, one such limitation was encountered.



OC3D has raised an interesting question about what could be next, and why. You see, the new NVIDIA GeForce 3090 is packing a walloping 24 GB of VRAM. One complication in providing it is that Micron is currently only able to supply 1 GB GDDR6X modules. So that means in order to facilitate this amount of memory, NVIDIA actually had to use 24 x 1 GB modules. As you can imagine...

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