An enthusiast from Russia did what Nvidia couldn’t. He installed 16 GB of memory in the GeForce RTX 3070

An interesting video appeared on the Web, in which an enthusiast from Russia undertook to fix the main drawback of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 video card – its small amount of memory. In hardware terms, the experiment was successful – the video card was identified in the system with all 16 GB of memory, but there is one problem in the Windows and Linux environment.

An enthusiast from Russia did what Nvidia couldn't.  He installed 16 GB of memory in the GeForce RTX 3070

Judging by the video, there is nothing particularly difficult in replacing memory chips, especially if there is a soldering station at hand. But with resistors (so that the memory was determined) I had to tinker with it. Ultimately, the modified RTX 3070 settled on the system with all available memory and even passed the 3D Mark test. But there is one problem: as the load decreases (for example, the termination of the 3DMark test) and the memory is cleared, the video signal disappears.

In this case, only restarting the computer helps. The problem manifests itself equally in Windows and Linux. The enthusiast makes the assumption that it is connected exclusively with the Nvidia drivers and, possibly, will be solved after the release of the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, which is credited with 16 GB of its own video memory.

An enthusiast from Russia did what Nvidia couldn't.  He installed 16 GB of memory in the GeForce RTX 3070
An enthusiast from Russia did what Nvidia couldn't.  He installed 16 GB of memory in the GeForce RTX 3070

Otherwise, with a modified GeForce RTX 3070 with 16 GB of memory, no problems. It can even be used in mining – the main thing is not to stop the miner: in this case, memory is freed up and the same problem with video signal loss arises.

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