<ul><li>A group of Brazilian modders have found a way to upgrade the NVidia GeForce GTX 970 to 8 GB of VRAM.</li><li>The original 512 MB, 7 Gbps GDDR5 memory modules are replaced with 1 GB, 8 Gbps chips and a resistor is added to make the GPU recognize the higher density VRAM ICs.</li><li>This upgrade does not fix the fundamental split VRAM issue of the ASIC, but it does provide access to 7 GB of faster, higher-density VRAM.</li><li>The benchmark performance of the upgraded GTX 970 shows a significant increase, with nearly a doubling in the Unigine Superposition score.</li></ul>

Brazilian Modders Upgrade NVidia Geforce GTX 970 to 8 GB of VRAM

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