Graphics Card modder and YouTuber Paul Gomes, recently published a video where he converted an RTX 3060 8GB, one of the best GPUs, into its faster and higher capacity RTX 3060 12GB sibling. The mod involved adding two more memory ICs to the PCB and adjusting a few capacitors to enable the necessary memory channels. In the end, the GPU saw a notable performance increase with the 12GB configuration.
Last year, Nvidia quietly released a second iteration of the RTX 3060 to the desktop market known as the RTX 3060 8GB. This model downgraded the memory configuration from 12GB operating on a 192-bit wide bus, to 8GB operating on a 128-bit bus, presumably in an effort to reduce cost. But despite this, current GPU prices for the 8GB version aren't, in general, any cheaper than the 12GB. That's despite the fact that the 8GB is noticeably slower than the 12GB version due to its reduced memory bandwidth.
