Re:Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service
by wmf on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @05:17PM
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Or to look at it the other way, it's a Vega 64 with double RAM so Google probably pays $600 or less. Google doesn't pay enterprisey gouge pricing.
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Re:Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service
by kllrnohj on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @09:48PM
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It'd be a Vega 56 basis not Vega 64 but the problem is that "double the ram" part.
HBM2 memory is super expensive. Like, rumors are 16GB of HBM2 is $320 expensive. Toss in anything custom here and there's zero chance this is under $600/GPU.
Even in the hotly contested consumer market the 16gb HBM2 Radeon VII is $700. And that doesn't have any high speed interconnects to allow for sharing memory with CPU or multi-gpu.