Chinese Company Modifies GeForce RTX 3080, Boosting Its Memory to 20GB

An intriguing new option for gamers has emerged from China. Local company Fengpo has launched a GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card equipped with 20GB of GDDR6X memory—a configuration never offered in NVIDIA's official models. The key to this card is a completely redesigned layout, where Fengpo's engineers used 20 memory modules placed on both sides of the printed circuit board.

To handle the heat from the powerful GPU and the additional memory chips, the card uses a massive triple-slot cooler borrowed from PNY's Verto RTX 4090 model. This should ensure stable operation even under heavy load. Unusually for such custom projects, the company even created retail packaging for the card, highlighting its target audience of mainstream users and gamers, rather than specialized tasks like AI computation.

Initial independent tests of the modified RTX 3080 have already been conducted in China. According to local blogger GPU Girl, the card demonstrates a solid performance boost not only in games but also in a number of applications. In some benchmarks, it even manages to outpace the newer, but less memory-equipped, RTX 5060 Ti with 16GB. Fengpo is not an NVIDIA partner, and the graphics processors used were originally manufactured back in 2021, making this not a new product, but a skillful reworking and upgrade of existing hardware.

The Fengpo GeForce RTX 3080 20GB is currently available for purchase in China, priced at $447 (approximately 36,000 Russian rubles). The emergence of such a product clearly demonstrates the growing capability of local companies to adapt existing hardware to meet the specific demands of the market.

The arrival of unconventional solutions like this 20GB RTX 3080 underscores a broader trend: for many users, optimal performance for a reasonable price is becoming more important than owning the absolute latest flagship model. As demonstrated in a recent large-scale comparison of RTX 5000 laptop and desktop graphics cards, this logic also applies to newer hardware generations—sometimes more accessible models offer a better price-to-performance ratio, making the race for the top tier difficult to justify.