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?

In: Engineering

Answer 1

Up until now it’s been Nvidia’s apparent policy to limit the VRAM on consumer cards, which is thought to be to force people doing professional work that needs that extra VRAM to buy the more expensive professional cards.

So it’s this change of policy that is a big deal.