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12gb of vram is a joke as is all of Nvidia ATM. They are artificially holding back vendors from adding the maximum vram like this junk is 3 generations back. The firmware likely supports all the way to 48 GB and is only a configuration thing. There are YT videos from Brazil showing people adding the maximum supported vram and only swapping a configuration resistor to take discrete desktop GPUs to their maximum supported vram. It is absolutely insane that my laptop from 2020 has a 3080Ti with 16gb of vram and they are slinging this slop two generations later. I bet it is a sandbag move to promote the appearance of a competitor in the market. It means there is no consumer value IMO. Go buy old stuff. They aren't serious and charging way too much for antiquated specs.
I don't think you can mod VRAM for laptop dGPUs, or am I mistaken?
I'm not brave enough. It is the same die though. My understanding is that the only fundamental difference is extra temperature controls are broken out for OS management.