AMD Ramps up GPU Production - Blames Availability of Graphics Memory
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Embra
Excellent!
fantaskarsef
Can't hurt anybody. Still, let's see this, I hope they get the job done.
(Not surprised that GDDR5 is becoming more available as it's old tech by now... we shall see about HBM2 though as even more chips / cards are going to have it than before).
schmidtbag
Out of curiosity, how much VRAM does mining require? If not much is needed, I wonder if some of the mining-specific models could just have a major reduction in VRAM and at a lower price. That way everybody wins: miners buy a GPU gamers don't want with no performance loss, more memory is available to gaming GPUs, and in turn production goes up to meet demands, while everything gets cheaper across the board.
Silva
I think it's too late, all the cards they put out will be bought by miners at inflated prices. Even if they can make more cards, most shops will not lower the prices and gamers aren't stupid.
At this time I woulnd't buy Polaris, because I had to buy an RX560 due to no stock of RX570 and eventually there will be a refresh or something new.
Our only hope is that they don't spike the price of the next gen GPU's and have them in a good amount of supply so we (gamers) can get them before they vanish again.
LEEc337
Maybe too late for this round of mining but maybe an idea for the board partners to consider In the future
D3M1G0D
DAG file in order to work (this is the main reason why it cannot be mined with ASICs, like Bitcoin). It loads the entire DAG into memory, and the size of the DAG increases over time / with each epoch (currently, it's about 2.5 GB). For future compatibility, Ethereum miners want as much VRAM as possible - 4 GB would do for a couple of years, but 8 or more would be ideal. The speed and latency of the memory also heavily influences hashing performance so miners want the fastest memory possible with the lowest latency. Naturally, this kind of VRAM is also ideal for gamers.
I don't know about other crypto currencies, but Ethereum (which is the biggest coin mined by GPUs) is memory hard, using a Kaarme
Memory manufacturers won't easily increase the quantity of memory being produced because right now with the limited supply the prices are obscenely high. That generates massive profits for the manufacturers. There are simply too few manufacturers for the market to work as it should.
Quicks
What happen to the price fixing story?
kruno
fOrTy_7
The situation got even worse since Micron and other companies created a consortium that will adapt GDDR6 to other technologies, e.g. high performance network switches, 5G mobile infrastructure and automotive. Mobile market competing with PC market is one of the reasons that DDR4 prices went almost +100% last year. Sh!t just hit the fan.
I kinda regret I didn't upgrade my GPU last year before all this started to happened.
robintson
AMD is doing pretty well by selling their latest graphics cards to miners with inflated prices due to shortage of their graphic cards. Nvidia graphic cards on the other side are more available and their prices are not inflated as AMD cards.
Also AMD is targeting miners right now and don't care too much now about their loyal gaming community.
schmidtbag
$1500 for a 1080Ti isn't inflated? Or how about $1100 for a 1070?
First of all, retailers are the ones hiking up the prices, not the manufacturers.
Second, uh... you think fOrTy_7
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