| Turkish said: Hynix and Samsung both already make HBM2, it is already in production with the highest end cards and the economies of scale is ramping up further with Vega. Not only do they make HBM2 they also work on improving HBM. AMD is betting heavily on the technology, it's not gonna go away. It might not be until HBM3 is ready for it to take over completely but it is the future of memory. Both Hynix Samsung are already working on low cost HBM3 with double the density and bandwith of HBM2, reported to come out in 2019/2020 just in time for Navi. Nvidia doesnt dictate where the industry goes. At best GDDR6 might be a stop gap solution that's gonna be phased in the next 2-3 years. |
There is room in the industry for both HBM and GDDR, 'till at least GDDR7.
IF a console were to use any HBM they would likely opt for a budget variant or try some monstrosity, hybrid with both GDDR6 and HBM2 or 3.
