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Overseas bloggers transform RTX 3060 graphics card: 8GB 128bit video memory is upgraded to 12GB 192bit

Shulou Source: shulou.com Published: 2023-11-24 16:43:00 10月04日 Update

CTOnews.com May 11 news, graphics card circle recently popular for graphics card upgrade video memory, the common RTX 2080 Ti upgrade to 22GB Ti RTX 3070 upgrade to 16GB. Now, YouTube blogger Paulo Gomes has successfully tried to upgrade RTX 3060 8GB version to 12GB version.

As previously reported by CTOnews.com, the original RTX 3060 was equipped with 12GB 192bit memory, and then Nvidia launched the RTX 3060 8GB version with the same number of GPU CUDA, and the video memory was cut to 8GB 128bit.

The blogger disassembled and found that there were four video memories on the PCB of the 8GB RTX 3060 graphics card, so he soldered two new video memories on the empty solder position and modified the BIOS to enable these previously disabled channels. GPU-Z software shows that after the transformation, the video memory capacity is increased from 8192MB to 12288MB, and the bit width is also expanded from 128bit to 192bit. The SUPERPOSITION (1080p EXTREME) run score increased from 4235 to 5196.