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2027 RAM Capacity Has Reportedly Been Sold out (www.ign.com)
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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If the memory wafers are largely HBM, so they can’t be used for gaming hardware.

If you’re thinking of HBM gaming GPUs, the chip design pipeline is too long. If Nvidia/AMD/Intel started making one right now, and rushed it, it would still be many years away.

…However, a lot of LPDDR5 is being made too.

Hence the rumors of AMD hedging their bets and using LPDDR for some future GPUs.

[–] poopkins@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

According to Tom's Hardware, it includes "DDR5 and LPDDR4/LPDDR5 as well as premium HBM."

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Could gpus use HBM? I thought AMD used it 10 years ago in theirs.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I’m not sure I worded this right before, but it takes ~half a decade to plan and produce a GPU.

They can’t just switch out the bus or memory on an existing design.

So they could make a HBM gaming GPU. But they would have had to have started ~2 years ago.

…That’s extremely unlikely.

It’s unlikely they’ll even plan one now.

AMD did indeed try making HBM gaming GPUs, and it turns out it’s supremely uneconomical; they immediately pivoted to the opposite extreme (narrow bus + larger cache).

However, LPDDR GPUs appear to already be in the pipe, so that will provide some GPU market relief.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

It’s good they did find an alternative