Why is the 5090 allegedly having 32GB VRAM a big deal? Can’t they just solder on another VRAM chip if they want?

Question

Why is the 5090 allegedly having 32GB VRAM a big deal? Can’t they just solder on another VRAM chip if they want?

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Answer 1

Not just 32GB VRAM, but GDDR7 VRAM, which is faster and more energy efficient than it’s GDDR6x predecessor.

And the 5090 is a card that straddles the boundary between a gaming card and a professional card. Graphics cards nowadays have become a central piece for a content creator, since they’re now heavily used both in video editing, 3D rendering and especially AI. You can never have enough VRAM for each of these applications.

And many of these content creators both work with a GPU like the 5090, and play games with it on the same PC, so having one single PC that can do both is very useful.

EDIT: Oh and yeah, you can’t solder more memory because Nvidia have disabled that with the 40 series onwards. You can do it on the 3090 though.