News Nvidia may release the RTX 5080 in 24GB and 16GB flavors — the higher VRAM capacity will come in the future via 3GB GDDR7 chips

[Admin]

While the latest rumors say the RTX 5080 will still only ahve 16GB of memory, Nvidia may offer a 24GB variant in the future. It's not the same as the canceled RTX 4080 12GB, as other specs would remain the same and instead the higher VRAM would come once GDDR7 manufacturers start producing 24Gb (3GB) memory ICs.

Nvidia may release the RTX 5080 in 24GB and 16GB flavors — the higher VRAM capacity will come in the future via 3GB GDDR7 chips : Read more

 

[thestryker]

I think the big takeaway here is the 3GB GDDR7 rumor. This capacity should have been possible with GDDR6 but never manifested as far as I'm aware. Given the shrinkage of bus widths I would love it if this became standard as 128-bit bus can be 12GB and 192-bit 18GB which would be a welcome change for midrange cards.

 

[Notton]

3GB GDDR7 isn't a rumor though.
It's listed in roadmaps and expected to come out in late 2024.
(But seeing as we're already in late 2024, we might not see it on cards until early 2025 at the earliest.)
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-com...amsung-and-sk-hynix-chips-showed-chips-at-gtc

 

[thestryker]

3GB GDDR7 isn't a rumor though.

Up to 32Gb GDDR6 is part of the JEDEC spec, but the products never materialized so I'm going with the "I'll believe it when it exists" mindset for GDDR7. I hope those timelines turn out to be reality.

 

[usertests]

3GB GDDR7 is definitely coming. It's just a matter of when.

It would be really funny if Nvidia's low-end comes out so much later than the 5090/5080 that they get to use it at launch. So you get 12 GB on a 128-bit card and so on.