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What an indictment on NVidia market segmentation that there's an industry doing aftermarket VRAM upgrades on gaming cards due their intentionally hobbled VRAM.

I wish AMD and Intel Arc would step up their game.

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Intel Arc Pro B60 will come in a 48GB dual-GPU model. So yeah, hardware is gonna be there, and the 24GB model will be $599 from Sparkle. I assume 48GB will be cheaper than a hacked RTX 4090.

Look at this: https://www.maxsun.com/products/intel-arc-pro-b60-dual-48g-t... https://www.sparkle.com.tw/files/20250618145718157.pdf

Yeah, but the B60 is basically half the speed of a 3090... in 2025. I'd rather buy 5yr old nVidia hardware for $100 more on eBay than an intel product with horrendous software support that's half the speed effectively. This build is so cool because the 2x 3090 setup is still maybe the best option 5yrs+ after the GPU was released by nVidia.

Keep in mind that the dual-GPU is done via PCIe bifurcation, so that if you use two B60's on a similar motherboard to what's in the article, you'll only see two GPUs, not the full four. Hence just 48GB VRAM not 96GB.

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