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isk517last Thursday at 6:18 PM1 replyview on HN

I'm pretty sure GPUs have their own RAM installed that is usually higher spec than the motherboard RAM.


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mananaysiemprelast Thursday at 6:34 PM

Higher in some respects (bandwidth), lower in others (latency, even though ordinary DDR5 is already no speed demon there and LPDDR5 is worse). At least from the spec sheet, these kinds of RAM are so different that I don’t really understand how demand for one can cause a shortage of the other, unless they are competing for the same manufacturing lines.

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