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[Pemalite]

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Pemalite said:

But we need to compare it to products and their pricing on the market as they stand currently.
MSRP hasn't really held much meaning over the last several years.

96bit would have been fine if they used faster memory, bandwidth wouldn't have moved much from where it is now if they used a 96bit bus but 22,400MT/s DRAM.

But those memory chips are more expensive than the 18.000 DRAMs, and you would have needed more of them for 12GB, so there's a substantial risk it would have made the card more expensive. I don't think AMD would have sold such a card for under $300 MSRP to compensate for the extra costs, which considering it's performance would have hurt it's value at least just as much than going with just 8GB.

The problem is not directly MSRP, it's more that this time last gen GPUs have had much bigger stocks due to the crypto craze. Normally by this time after the launch of a GPU generation all the old stock has long been sold, negating the problem at hand, but not this time.

The 96bit bus would have reduced those costs.

6x 16Gigabit chips would do it.
Or 3x 32Gbit chips which Samsung has, which is actually less than the current 7600.