While the Nvidia GeForce RTX 50-series cards that were announced this week at CES 2025 have initially wooed us with somewhat reasonable pricing and frame generation magic, they haven't been showstoppers on the memory front.
That's especially the case given it looks like AMD's RX 9070 graphics cards will have 16 GB of VRAM and presumably be cheaper than Nvidia's 16 GB cards.
However, if a recent MSI packaging mistake (via Videocardz) and Gigabyte listing mistake (via Videocardz) are anything to go by, the milquetoast memory configs of most of the 50-series cards—not terrible by any stretch, but nothing to write home about—might have only been a recent change.
And, moreover, these «mistakes» might signify future RTX 5080 GDDR7 configs. Nvidia says: «Blackwell is equipped with the world's fastest memory — GDDR7 with speeds up to 30Gbps.» The RTX 5090, 5070 Ti, and 5070 have 28 Gbps memory, while the RTX 5080 has 16 GB of 30 Gbps memory.
In a video which now seems to have been changed or shortened, MSI reportedly showed RTX 4080 Vanguard Launch Edition packaging that claimed 24 GB of GDDR7 RAM for the card—8 GB more than it actually has.