Nvidia's unreleased RTX 3070 Ti 16GB comes to life thanks to a modder's crazy GDDR6 swap — Frankenstein card combines RTX 3070 PCB and new VRAM with RTX 3070 Ti GPU
The Brazilian YouTuber reconfigured memory straps so the Frankenstein card uses all 16GB, then verified it with GPU-Z, local LLM inference, Warzone, and a Superposition run. It may be the only working RTX 3070 Ti 16GB.
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