By Darren Allan
Publication Date: 2025-11-28 12:30:00
- Rumor suggests Nvidia could stop supplying partners with video RAM
- Normally, VRAM is bundled with the chip when sold to card makers
- If true, Nvidia would leave the sourcing of VRAM to the individual makers – and that could be a real problem for smaller firms
Nvidia might stop providing video RAM (VRAM) alongside its GPU chips when supplying the third-party graphics card makers that it works with.
VideoCardz noticed that over on Weibo, Golden Pig Upgrade, a regular leaker of all things GPU-related, claims that Nvidia is only going to supply the chip itself, and not the video memory, to its partners like Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, and so on.
The standard practice in the world of PC graphics cards is for the chip makers AMD, Intel and Nvidia to manufacture the actual GPU chip (of course) and then bundle that with the required quantity (and spec) of VRAM in a package sent to the card maker – which then sources everything else (the printed circuit board and other components) and puts it all together.
If Nvidia changes tack as suggested, this means those partners will need to separately source and buy the correct spec video RAM to go with every model they produce.
This may not be true – add plenty of skepticism with any rumor, naturally – but it does make some sense, and it would be very bad news for some graphics card makers if it is genuinely what Nvidia’s planning, as I’ll discuss next.
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