NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50-series and AMD RDNA4 Radeon RX 8000 to Debut GDDR7 Memory

[Minus Infinity]

Nope. GDDR7 is getting to what HBM2/e is already capable of and was doing 4 years ago, and HBM3 is already in production.

2019 the Radeon VII has HBM2 1,024GB/s.
2020 the MI100 has HBM2 1,228.8GB/s
2022 the MI210 has HBM2e 1,638.4GB/s
Nvidia has an H100 with HBM3 that will do 3,000GB/s.

When you consider that the Vega 56/64 back in 2017 had 8GB of HBM2 starting at $400 and the VII having 16GB for $700. I don't think that HBM is crazy expensive. For RDNA3 there is the packaging issue. Would be coold if AMD could 3D stack the MCDs onto the GCD so they have room for HBM3

Well performance is one thing, cost is another and HBM3 prices have soared, so who really cares! It will never come to consumer desktop gpu's

 

[Godrilla]

It begs a question. What would the price be for those graphics cards? Give me chills to even think about it though.

If we extrapolate the price of the 3090 $1499 to 4090 $1599 I would say $1699 is likely. Nvidia will attempt to space itself far far away from Intel in terms of price and performance and fill in the gap accordingly intead of competing with the other 2 ( current strategy). Sure Nvidia will try to justify a price hike using the ai demands more Cuda eg. 30k gpus dedicated for Chatgpt servers scapegoat for investors. In order for even that price to be successful price point, the performance uplift has to match or beat the delta gain from 3090 to 4090 imo. It took 1 quarter for the demand for the 4090 to settle and for the past month it is readily available for $1599 . MSI Gaming GeForce RTX 4090 24GB GDRR6X 384-Bit HDMI/DP Nvlink Tri-Frozr 3 Ada Lovelace Architecture Graphics Card (RTX 4090 Gaming Trio 24G) https://a.co/d/09mF9V2
Or as low as $1519 @ microcenter with 5% discount but the later might trigger those that paid over $2000 plus for theirs.

 

[80251]

Thx for that info Godrilla, I had never even considering getting any videocards from Microcenter after the Ampere mining shortage.