LukasTaves
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Embedded RAM always takes up a big chunk of silicon.
True, but for this case depending on the type we are talking about a good 1.5 billion transistors.
I am 100X more cautious about confirming any thing after this 8 GB GDDR5 shit going down. I want to be surprised and I have no interest in one machine dominating the other.
I see, sorry if i sounded like i'm pushing towards console wars, It just that i can't fathom why would Ms, having almost the transistor budget as a 680 for the gpu would spent so much of it on just ram, to the point where the gpu sounds pretty weak compared to what's on market today...
I can see some of the reasons (esram+ dmes increasing the whole bandwidth of the system, plus being useful as a cache of some sorts), but unless current gpus do are terribly stalled by memory accesses, it won't make up for the performance, nor it will be very easy to manufacture... Depending on the ram, 1.5bi transistors take more area than 1.5bi transistors of logic, which does not bodes well for a apu solution, specially within a few die shrinks, where the ram could lag behind the rest...
They could end up with a gigantic terribly low yield chip, and at the same time having subpar performance xD