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What If GPUs Had Expandable Memory? Revisiting the Lost Era of Upgradable VRAM and Why Modern Graphics Cards Abandoned It

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Imagine if we had the choice of expanding GPU VRAM, similar to your usual PC memory, but while we cannot do it in modern times, there was such an option in the past. GPUs Back In The 90s Did Have An Option To Expand Memory, Through a Dedicated Socket With current-gen GPUs from NVIDIA and AMD, there have always been issues with VRAM capacities, especially with the more recent 8GB models, which stirred up a whole new debate in the industry. While GPUs with 8GB VRAM were regarded as a reputable option a few years ago, but in today’s day […]

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