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A comment on PCIe 7.0 Draft 0.5 Spec: 512 GB/s over PCIe x16 On Track For 2025. Parent comment

Re:PCIe 7.0 Draft 0.5 Spec: 512 GB/s over PCIe x16 On Track ... by qwertox on Thursday April 04, 2024 @01:29PM (#39933447)
It would be nicer to see the ability to extend GPUs with off-the-shelf RAM, think SO-DIMM clipped to the back of the GPU. Then being able to choose to buy 2 x 64 GB DIMMs or just a 8GB one, maybe also have some GBs of good RAM soldered onto the GPU like it is now. One can dream.
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Re:PCIe 7.0 Draft 0.5 Spec: 512 GB/s over PCIe x16 On Track ... by temp0826 on Thursday April 04, 2024 @03:56PM (#39935068)
Why does this make me picture a bunch of GPU company execs in big leather chairs cackling around a conference table with a dead goat in the middle?
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Re:PCIe 7.0 Draft 0.5 Spec: 512 GB/s over PCIe x16 On Track ... by briffle on Thursday April 04, 2024 @06:34PM (#39936635)
But then the vendors would not be able to differentiate (ie, markup) their products.

They currently charge thousands more for adding $75 of memory.

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Re:PCIe 7.0 Draft 0.5 Spec: 512 GB/s over PCIe x16 On Track ... by crote on Thursday April 04, 2024 @06:58PM (#39936861)
Wasn't this a thing in the past - like the 1990s? I know the Matrox G200 supported it, but there might've been others too.
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