He tinkers with his RTX 2070 to install 16 GB of GDDR6

The 8 Micron 1 GB memory chips replaced by 8 Samsung 2 GB memory chips.

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The RTX 2070 is still a decent graphics card even for recent games, but some consider its 8GB of GDDR6 memory to be insufficient. This is the case of a certain VIK-on, who tinkered with his NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 graphics card from Palit to give it twice as much VRAM, 16 GB.

The RTX 2070s on the market have 8 GB of VRAM. This takes the form of 8 Micron 1 GB chips installed on the 8 available memory slots. There is therefore no vacant. Therefore, increasing the amount of VRAM requires removing old chips to install new ones. In addition to Micron’s solutions, the RTX 2070 is compatible with Samsung 1 GB and 2 GB GDDR6 chips; VIK-on opted for the latter. He bought 8 Samsung 2GB chips for a total amount of around $ 200.

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The card boots but ends up crashing

After removing the old chips, adding the new ones, and moving the resistors to the back of the PCB, VIK-on tested its creation on GPU-Z. The card starts up; and as shown by the screenshots, the software detects it well with 16 GB of VRAM. Unfortunately, there are some crashes when it is too stressed, without knowing if they are caused by hardware problems (bad soldering) or software.

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This RTX 2070 probably does not lack much with 16 GB of GDDR6 to function without a hitch; maybe on a next attempt?