AIB vendors getting the RTX 5080's memory config wrong could mean 50-series Super cards have more and faster VRAM

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 render on green background.

While the Nvidia GeForce RTX 50-series cards that were announced this week at CES 2025 have initially wooed us with somewhat reasonable pricing and frame generation magic, they haven't been showstoppers on the memory front. That's especially the case given it looks like AMD's RX 9070 graphics cards will have 16 GB of VRAM and presumably be cheaper than Nvidia's 16 GB cards.

However, if a recent MSI packaging mistake (via Videocardz) and Gigabyte listing mistake (via Videocardz) are anything to go by, the milquetoast memory configs of most of the 50-series cards—not terrible by any stretch, but nothing to write home about—might have only been a recent change. And, moreover, these "mistakes" might signify future RTX 5080 GDDR7 configs.