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Would it make sense for them to make a 8GB variant as well? 16GB make it very expensive and actually for gaming it's most likely not needed yet.
by shmerl 8y ago
Would it make sense for them to make a 8GB variant as well? 16GB make it very expensive and actually for gaming it's most likely not needed yet.
- giobox 8y agoIt looks like one of the card’s headline features, 1TB/sec of memory bandwidth, was only achievable with a 16gb design (basically a doubling of channels/memory over the previous Vega 64 design, with which this card shares many similarities).
- shmerl 8y agoWhy can't they use 4x2GB and provide the same bandwidth? Or it's some limitation of HBM2?
- Geforce8472 8y agoHBM2 has minimum 4GB in each stack IIRC
- pas 8y agoyes, apparently. though thry could probably get it done eventually, probably not worth it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18868617 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18868617