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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Roshan Ashraf Shaikh

Defective RTX 3070 gaming GPU gets 12GB memory upgrade — mod boosts performance by 66% in RE4

RTX 3070 modded to use 12GB GDDR6 under testing.

Professional repair technician Paulo Gomes and his team modded an EVGA GeForce RTX 3070, increasing its memory capacity from 8GB to a one-of-a-kind 12GB GDDR6 VRAM configuration. Upgrading VRAMs on GPUs may seem as easy as simply swapping the memory modules, but much work is involved. Depending on the GPU, it will need the proper hardware and VBIOS modding, which would sometimes be a trial-and-error process. 

This is where the skills of such skilled and knowledgeable technicians come in to give a new life to this GPU, as they will know what to look for and what needs to be changed. 

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