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Limits on the amount of VRAM on Nvidia's consumer GPUs have forced the modding community to take matters into their own hands. Time and again we've seen various DIY memory upgrades being performed, and it's even offered as a proper repair service in underground markets, but rarely is it done openly. As such, we've just spotted a vendor that will upgrade the 11GB of VRAM on an RTX 2080 Ti to 22GB and provide the BIOS for it upfront — no shady back-alley deals required.Go deeper with TH Premium: GPUsThe name of the shop is GPU Solutions (very creative, we know), and it's based in the UAE, though they say they serve customers around the world. On their website, you can select the "Graphics Card Memory Upgrade" service for both the RTX 2080 Ti and the RTX 3070, though the former has more details. These guys also have a YouTube channel where they've already performed the upgrade on an Asus Strix variant before.The upgrade works just like any other you might've already seen. The card is disassembled to reach the PCB and remove the preexisting VRAM modules. The RTX 2080 Ti uses 11x 1GB GDDR6 chips, so replacing them with the same amount of 2GB GDDR6 doubles the memory capacity instantly. This is a rather straightforward way of going about a VRAM upgrade, because oftentimes it actually requires a custom PCB.
