Viper1 on 21 June 2013
| Ssliasil said: Hell even GDDR5 RAM being used as System RAM was truly unheard of until the PS4 was announced. |
It was unheard of because it's not very well suited for general purpose computing. Latency is way too high.
By the way, it's not "several hundred dollars more expensive" either. Yes, it cost more because it's not developed in the same bulk rate capacity as DDR3. Actually, I take that back, it is developed at the same bulk rate capacity because GDDR5 IS DDR3...just with some tweaks to the timings to allow greater bandwidth and more I/O busses.
The rEVOLution is not being televised
