Nvidia Is Finally Doing Something About the RAM Apocalypse

Over the last few months, Nvidia has let the RAM crisis stampede over its revered RTX 50-series graphics cards. Now, it’s finally offering a little more bang for your buck on lower-end GPUs, though—unfortunately—only for laptops. It’s a small start to tackling the industry-spanning problems that have made PC gaming way too expensive.

Nvidia, still the most valuable company in the world thanks to its AI training chips, shared new plans for versions of the mobile version of its GeForce RTX 5070. The discrete GPU originally had 8GB of VRAM. This limitation hinders the GPU’s ability to support higher resolutions in games, like 1440p or 4K. In a blog post, Nvidia said it’s introducing a 12GB VRAM configuration of the RTX 5070. It’s enough to push a lower-end gaming laptop harder than you currently can on devices like the Razer Blade 14.

Here’s the full statement:

“Demand for GeForce RTX GPUs remains strong, and memory supply is constrained. In order to maximize memory availability, we are releasing the GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU 12GB configuration with 24Gb G7 memory. This gives our partners access to an additional pool of memory to complement the 16Gb G7 supply that currently ships with most GeForce GPUs. The 12GB configuration will exist alongside the current 8GB configuration and allows our partners to bring a broader range of GeForce RTX 5070 laptops to consumers.”

The extra memory is built on 24Gb GDDR7 memory modules. In February,…