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That's true it's got an impact, but I think there's still space available for "slightly slower with 2x memory" models. For many local uses, new cards are way pa
by viraptor 3y ago
That's true it's got an impact, but I think there's still space available for "slightly slower with 2x memory" models. For many local uses, new cards are way past the "fast enough" line, but having 64gb on them would be really beneficial.
It's love to see some experiments / different SKUs in this area, given people are already diy-ing extra memory on NVIDIA. (https://hackaday.com/2021/01/29/add-an-extra-8gb-of-vram-to-your-2070/ https://hackaday.com/2021/01/29/add-an-extra-8gb-of-vram-to-... there were stable experiments later on, but I don't have a link now)
- schneehertz 3y agoGraphics card manufacturers believe that selling high-memory consumer graphics cards will affect the market for commercial computing cards, so they will not do so, that's all.
- airspresso 3y agoNice room for a new player to disrupt then
- einsteinx2 3y agoProblem is, making a board design using an existing GPU chip and sticking more RAM into it is (relatively) simple but of course none of the GPU chip makers would allow partners to do that. Making your own GPU chip that’s competitive with Nvidia or AMD’s current offerings is a massive undertaking and pretty much impossible for a newcomer. Just look at how much trouble Intel has had breaking into the discrete GPU market or even just how hard it’s been for AMD to compete with Nvidia even with decades of experience in the market. And if some newcomer could make a competitive GPU with large memory capacity they’d be crazy not to sell it at datacenter prices, maybe just undercutting the others but a few grand but still way more expensive than any consumer GPU you can buy today, even a 4090.
- tlb 3y agoIt's not doable at the board level. High-end GPUs use HBM in the same package, connected using a silicon interposer.