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Japanese shop upgrades RTX 2080 Ti VRAM to 22GB for $282, about $25 per GB
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The shop adds 11GB of GDDR6 to RTX 2080 Ti cards, yielding 22GB total VRAM for roughly $282, enabling larger AI model workloads on a budget GPU.
This upgrade offers a low-cost way to increase VRAM for AI training and inference, where memory capacity often limits model size. However, the underlying GPU and memory bandwidth remain unchanged, so gaming performance sees little benefit and the card is still bottlenecked by compute.
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The service costs 45,000 Yen (~$282.48) for an extra 11GB of GDDR6, about $25 per GB of added VRAM.
With the upgrade, a stock RTX 2080 Ti (<$250 secondhand) plus the mod totals just over $500 for a 22GB card.
Extra VRAM helps AI workloads but does not improve gaming or bandwidth-limited tasks due to the unchanged 616 GB/s memory bandwidth and TU102 compute limits.
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