I was gonna say, I still use an AMD Vega that uses HBM2.
Vega was a card with decent perf/$ for the consumer, but from a pure technical point of view (perf/mm2, perf/BW, perf/W) it was a major failure. Both Vega (and Fiji before it) showed that excess memory BW alone is not sufficient to win.
> Both Vega (and Fiji before it) showed that excess memory BW alone is not sufficient to win.
That's correct if you're targeting gamers, but local AI inference changes this picture substantially.
My main system still uses a Vega 64 and it plays all the games I'd care about. Undervolts like a champ! Will use it until it dies..
Vega was a card with decent perf/$ for the consumer, but from a pure technical point of view (perf/mm2, perf/BW, perf/W) it was a major failure. Both Vega (and Fiji before it) showed that excess memory BW alone is not sufficient to win.
> Both Vega (and Fiji before it) showed that excess memory BW alone is not sufficient to win.
That's correct if you're targeting gamers, but local AI inference changes this picture substantially.
My main system still uses a Vega 64 and it plays all the games I'd care about. Undervolts like a champ! Will use it until it dies..