Obviously, in China, they don’t cease at RTX 4090 and RTX 3090… Via the Twitter account @I_Leak_VN, we additionally discover the 3080 20 G AI Blower. The playing cards are as soon as once more housed below a turbine heatsink, and VRAM capability is doubled!
3080 20 G AI Blower: 2x extra VRAM is a turbine heatsink!
Since the export ban on the RTX 4090, 3090 and different high-performance merchandise, the Chinese have been turning all the things into AI playing cards. This time, it’s the RTX 3080’s flip to undergo the identical destiny as the 2 aforementioned fashions.
Naturally, the playing cards are fitted with a blower heatsink. The latter includes a radial fan to extract scorching air from the casing… The relaxation is historical past.
However, there’s one small enchancment to those fashions. In truth, the quantity of reminiscence is doubled, with playing cards rising from 10 GB to twenty GB. Once once more, the quantity of VRAM is essential within the case of synthetic intelligence, particularly for all the things to do with LLMs.
In any case, the modification is a hit, if the varied GPU-Z captures shared are something to go by. Doubling the quantity of reminiscence on a card isn’t all that sophisticated: simply solder 2 GB reminiscence chips collectively and modify the bios afterwards. As we’ve seen, this apply has been efficiently carried out on the RTX 3070 specifically.
