Nvidia's RTX 2080 Ti Can Be Modded to Support 22GB of GDDR6 Memory

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Hardware modder VIK-on got famous for installing additional memory on GeForce RTX 2070 and GeForce RTX 3070 graphics cards. Now, he has seemingly proven that it is possible to install 22GB of memory on a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GPU board. 

VIK-on obtained a faulty Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti card he needed to repair by resoldering the GPU, fixing broken PCB traces, and installing a new memory chip. Along the way, he has proven that it is possible to install 22GB of memory on Nvidia's GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. 

Installing higher capacity memory chips on a graphics card is a fairly easy task if you have a graphics card, new memory chips (which usually means another card), a professional soldering station, and skills. What is harder is finding an appropriate firmware that supports a particular GPU as well as higher-capacity memory chips. 

Nvidia's TU102 chip definitely supports more than 11GB of memory installed on the company's GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics card as Nvidia also has the TU102-based Quadro RTX 8000 board with 48GB of memory. Therefore, the key challenges for VIK-on were to repair the card and find an appropriate firmware that supported 22GB of memory. The modder used a relatively simple strap mod (that deceives the GPU BIOS into thinking that there is more memory installed). The mod worked and the system booted, but was not very stable.  

VIK-on could not procure 16Gb GDDR6 memory chips, so he could not build a 22GB version of Nvidia's GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. Yet, he proved that it is possible to do so with appropriate chips, hardware, and skills.

Anton Shilov
Contributing Writer

Anton Shilov is a contributing writer at Tom’s Hardware. Over the past couple of decades, he has covered everything from CPUs and GPUs to supercomputers and from modern process technologies and latest fab tools to high-tech industry trends.

  • escksu
    Admin said:
    Modder says 22GB GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is possible.

    Nvidia's RTX 2080 Ti Can Be Modded to Support 22GB of GDDR6 Memory : Read more

    Yes, of course its entirely possible. 8gb and 16gb RAM modules have exactly the same pinout.
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  • drtweak
    I don't understand. Did he do it or not? According to the last paragraph

    VIK-on could not procure 16Gb GDDR6 memory chips, so he could not build a 22GB version of Nvidia's GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. Yet, he proved that it is possible to do so with appropriate chips, hardware, and skills.

    He could not build one but proved it is possible? How so? He didn't build it!
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  • Friesiansam
    He has proved nothing, just shown that it should be possible to instal 22GB of memory.
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