• rorschach200@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Why actually build the 36 GB one though? What gaming application will be able to take advantage of more than 24 for the lifetime of 5090? 5090 will be irrelevant by the time the next gen of consoles releases, and the current one has 16 GB for VRAM and system RAM combined. 24 is basically perfect for top end gaming card.

    And 36 will be even more self-canibalizing for professional cards market.

    So it’s unnecessary, expensive, and canibalizing. Not happening.

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      1 year ago

      Gaming applications didn’t take advantage of the 24GB when it debuted on the 3090 and they still don’t do for the 4090 now. That’s not what drives these decisions.

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        1 year ago

        The bus width needed to be what it needed to be. That left 2 possibilities - 12 GB and 24 GB. The former was way low for 4090 to work in its target applications. 24 it became.

        This is exactly what drives these decisions.

        What do you think drives them?

    • FloorEntire7762@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      Don’t think so. Rtx Titan from 2018 much faster than ps 5 gpu from 2020. I suppose next gen console gpu will get rtx 4070 level perfomance or slightly above. Ps 4 had hd 7850 perfomance in 2013 so…

    • soggybiscuit93@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      36GB is certainly a possibility. VRAM demand is high across multiple markets. Currently you can get a 24GB 4090 or 48GB A6000 Ada. There’s certainly a possibility of seeing 36GB 5090 and 72GB A6000 Blackwell (B6000?)