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Nvidia reportedly no longer supplying VRAM to its GPU board partners in response to memory crunch — rumor claims vendors will only get the die, forced to source memory on their own (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 11 points 11 months ago*

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GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere - Ars Technica

If said rumor is true, so much for GPU prices falling.

EDIT: Well, I guess more properly, for video card prices falling; in this context, distinguishing between the GPU chip and the card it lives on does actually matter.

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    [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    If board partners now provide their own VRAM, maybe they will provide more memory configurations for GPUs instead of the ones NVIDIA forces you to have.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    In China street markets you can get a 48gb 4090.

    I'm not sure if equipment to make older ram types still exist, or if it's possible to use ddr3 chips on ddr5 interface/voltage, or gddr5, but this is getting too stupid.

    HBM prices are also rising fast, and next gen datacenter AI cards are likely to be worse value (flops/bandwidht/ram) than older ones. But still ddr5 would be more profitable to make than HBM at half the current price. So everything is stupid extortion, and should come back to some parity between the 2.

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    • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    We need to get off our nvidia dependency

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    [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    The entire pc market is about to rocket off once again... And just at the moment Windows has been a bitch about Windows 10 support. Coincidence?

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