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Nvidia's RTX 5070 Laptop GPU Gets 12GB RAM Upgrade at 71% Price Hike
Memory upgrade addresses VRAM bottlenecks but comes with steep premium amid ongoing silicon shortages
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- Nvidia is upgrading the laptop RTX 5070 from 8GB to 12GB of GDDR7 memory, a 50% increase aimed at reducing performance bottlenecks for AAA gaming and local AI models.
- However, the upgrade comes with a 71.5% price premium—$1,199 versus $699 for the 8GB version—due to ongoing memory shortages and silicon supplier pricing.
- The mobile RTX 5070 uses the same GB206 silicon as the desktop RTX 5060, and the RAM remains on a 128-bit interface with 4,608 CUDA cores unchanged.
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Nvidia is upgrading the laptop RTX 5070 from 8GB to 12GB of GDDR7 memory, a 50% increase aimed at reducing performance bottlenecks for AAA gaming and local AI models. However, the upgrade comes with a 71.5% price premium—$1,199 versus $699 for the 8GB version—due to ongoing memory shortages and silicon supplier pricing. The mobile RTX 5070 uses the same GB206 silicon as the desktop RTX 5060, and the RAM remains on a 128-bit interface with 4,608 CUDA cores unchanged.
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