CGI-Quality said:
It isn't ready for full production on consumer grade cards at the moment (HBM 2). GDDR6 is also on the way, so it will be interesting to see how that compares (will most likely power the lower-end GPUs of Volta), while 16GB (minimum) HBM 2 will accompany the Volta Titan/1180 Ti. |
Why do you think the 1180 will have 16GB minimum if HBM2 is still so expensive?
Remember that the Fury cards from AMD only had 4GB for that reason. HBM was so expensive. Also remember that the GTX 980 only had 4GB of memory.
Also, 8GB of video memory is still plenty for 4K in modern games. I think Doom is the game that takes up the most at 5GB and we're still many years from a true next gen where games are designed in truly next gen engines (not even Scorpion games will be next gen, so it won't be until 2018 at the earliest, but probably 2019). And the next gen of GPUs will be made on the same 16nm process and not be more than 40-50% faster than current gen, at best.
Then of course you need more for SLI, but I think 8GB of HBM2 in 2017 could be enough for the default GTX 1180, while the Titan will get 16GB.
