Nvidia quietly released a new version of GeForce RTX 5070 GPU inside a driver blog post
Nvidia's new 12GB GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU uses a different GDDR7 memory supply to address stock constraints, giving laptop makers a third configuration option above the existing 8GB model.
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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. Nvidia Why 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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