Nvidia just announced a new GPU variant in the weirdest way possible: buried it in a game driver update blog post.
Alongside the release of its Game Ready 596.36 WHQL driver, the company also confirmed the launch of a 12GB GDDR7 configuration of the GeForce RTX 5070 laptop GPU.
NvidiaWhy is Nvidia doing this now?
The short answer: memory supply. Nvidia has already acknowledged that demand for its RTX GPUs exceeds the availability of the 16Gb G7 modules, which are currently used in most RTX 50-series products.
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The new 12GB variant sidesteps the issue by using 24Gb G7 modules built on a different manufacturing process that produces 3GB chips instead of 2GB. The variant is sourced from a separate supply chain that Samsung and Micron have ramped up.
The result is a third configuration sitting above the baseline
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