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Re:2023 was the year that GPUs stood still by daemonologist on Friday December 29, 2023 @10:27AM (#38805929)
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/

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/gddr6-vram-prices-plummet

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Re:2023 was the year that GPUs stood still by ksec on Friday December 29, 2023 @01:03PM (#38808090)
It 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.

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Re:2023 was the year that GPUs stood still by gruez on Friday December 29, 2023 @10:47AM (#38806152)
> 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?

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Re:2023 was the year that GPUs stood still by schmorptron on Friday December 29, 2023 @11:24AM (#38806679)
Wouldn't you also need other higher-end components to interface with and support higher bandwidth to effectively make use of all of that VRAM?
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Re:2023 was the year that GPUs stood still by to11mtm on Friday December 29, 2023 @06:11PM (#38811332)
Yes. 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.

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