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walsufnir on 17 May 2013
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JEMC said:
walsufnir said:
g911turbo said:


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?

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.

But you are forgetting that most of those graphics cards use 1 or 2 GB, while the PS4 and the Nextbox (if the rumor is true) will use 8 GB.

Sure, they won't sell as many consoles as graphics cards, but each console sports 4x times as much RAM than a graphics card, so they will have an impact on the production of GDDR5 RAM, hopefully a good one.


Expect to see the ram-size increased in the next years, also let's just do some math with easy numbers. It will have an impact, yes, but remember that if NextBox doesn't use GDDR5 (which I expect) Sony alone will use GDDR5-chips. And who knows how long GDDR5 will be the best tech for gpus. In 2 years it could be graphics-specific ram based on DDR4. But anyway, consoles always used expensive tech and it was almost always good that they did so.