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RAM to see 'meaningful price increases' before 2026 is out, as the memory crisis is predicted to last 'at least' another 3 years (www.techradar.com)
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[–] 2 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

I had a Radeon VII, and it has HBM. The VRAM was soooo fucking fast. So if the dirt cheap BRING IT ON.

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  • [–] 1 point 12 hours ago* (4 children)

    Datacenter GPUs can't game :(. As in, it's literally impossible, as they are missing ROPs.

    The last generation that could is basically the Nvidia V100, and the datacenter equivalent of your Radeon VII. AMD removed the ROPs after the Radeon VII generation. The RTX 3000-generation Nvidia A100 can technically run a game if hacked to do so, but it performs extremely poorly because of a lopsided compute config.

    Now, if you are interested in GPU compute and self-hosting, maybe we can use them.

    But Nvidia learned to buy back and destroy GPUs during the last crypto bust, so I'm afraid they may do it again.

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  • [–] 2 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

    Sorry I wasnt taking about Datacentre GPUs. I was talking about HBM going unused.

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  • [–] 1 point 12 hours ago* (2 children)

    I know.

    One can't just bolt HBM onto something else, no matter how skilled the hacker is. It needs an interposer to connect it because the pin pitch is so small, and it needs a memory controller that supports it.

    EDIT: And if you're talking about AMD using it in gaming GPUs or some other hardware, unfortunately the design pipeline is very long. If AMD decided to make a gaming HBM GPU right this second, and rushed it, it would take years to design it and get it in production.

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