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Agreed, and VRAM (GDDR6 at least) is _not_ that expensive. The going rate for an 8 Gbit chip is around $3 [0][1], so around $150 in raw chips for 48 GB. Unfor
by daemonologist 3y ago
Agreed, and VRAM (GDDR6 at least) is _not_ that expensive. The going rate for an 8 Gbit chip is around $3 [0][1], so around $150 in raw chips for 48 GB.
Unfortunately I suspect VRAM capacities in consumer cards will continue to be limited in order to differentiate enterprise products.
[0] https://www.dramexchange.com/ https://www.dramexchange.com/
[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/gddr6-vram-prices-plummet https://www.tomshardware.com/news/gddr6-vram-prices-plummet
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- gruez 3y ago> The going rate for an 8 Gbit chip is around $3 [0][1], so around $150 in raw chips for 48 GB. I doubt 48GB cards are using 8 Gbit chips. How are you going to physically route 48 chips on a PCB?
- schmorptron 3y agoWouldn't you also need other higher-end components to interface with and support higher bandwidth to effectively make use of all of that VRAM?
- to11mtm 3y agoYes. Realistically you'd just go with higher density RAM chips, which I'm guessing are gonna be more costly per GB as well... But the upshot for a manufacturer for higher density memory, if the 'failure rate' of fresh parts is the same, well it's better to have less parts of a fixed failure rate ofc.
- ksec 3y agoIt wasn't that long ago the price for GDDR6 was up to $16, your 48GB would have cost $800. Or roughly $2000 more in retail price. What a lot of people dont understand is that RSP dont change with commodities ups and downs. If you price your product $1500 cheaper now due to DRAM cost reduciton, you will have a hard time getting it back up $1500 if things ever resume to normal. So generally speaking RSP comes down very slowly.