g911turbo said:
walsufnir said:
Lafiel said:
walsufnir said:
g911turbo said:
One thing is for sure, if both Sony and M use GDDR5 on their next gen systems, it is going to drive the market price of GDDR5 down in the longer run. Might see a slight spike in the short term as all allocation goes to those two! |
Eh, you do know that GDDR5 is currently used by a huge number of graphics card and that Sony and MS will not order hundreds of million of these chips?
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hm.. depends
afaik the PS4 needs 16 x 521MB GDDR5 chips, so if they want to produce more than 6(.25) million PS4s they need more than 100million of the chips
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hundreds! :) yes but in relation to graphic cards this would only add a little bit. the memory-price will most likely get lower if more graphic cards get sold and I think this will happen as pcs will have to have better specs to run the new games. it will most likely always be "special" memory.
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Are you sure computer discrete graphics cards (that use gddr5 no less) sell that much? You might be right but would love to see data to help me process. But yeah. I agree with you. At the very least it would drive the total market up, as pc sales would increase too. Can't hurt right?
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http://www.tomshardware.com/news/GPU-fourth-quarter-discrete-embedded-graphics-market,21194.html
"A report released by Jon Peddie Research on Tuesday states that during the fourth quarter of 2012, only 28.8 million discrete GPUs were shipped. Compared to third quarter numbers, shipments dropped 16-percent while year-to-year (4Q12 to 4Q11) shipments dropped 9.7-percent. Nvidia suffered the most damage, feeling a 16.7-percent drop in quarter-to-quarter discrete GPU sales."
So one quarter with 28.8 million discrete gpus... PS4 and NextBox won't do this in one year ;) I don't want to look up how many of them use GDDR5 but I think it's safe to say that discrete gpus are sold very often.
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