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indiekiduk said:

Usually the Radeon Pro have ECC RAM justifying the higher price compared to the identical chip in the consumer cards, odd this one doesn't.

No, they don't use ECC RAM, but they do typically use HBM2. GDDR6 is still way behind HBM2, but it is fast enough that it doesn't add significant additional latency - meaning, substantially faster than the GDDR5 it replaces in consumer cards. That said, AMD did say a while back that they were moving away from HBM2 across the board - likely due to pricing and packaging complexity.

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wizard69 said:

darksi08 said:

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indiekiduk said:

Usually the Radeon Pro have ECC RAM justifying the higher price compared to the identical chip in the consumer cards, odd this one doesn't.

No, they don't use ECC RAM, but they do typically use HBM2. GDDR6 is still way behind HBM2, but it is fast enough that it doesn't add significant additional latency - meaning, substantially faster than the GDDR5 it replaces in consumer cards. That said, AMD did say a while back that they were moving away from HBM2 across the board - likely due to pricing and packaging complexity.

When did AMD say that they have driven up on HBM2?    It would be rather sad because HBM2 could do wonders for the APU chips.  

I agree, I'm a big fan of HBM2 - I'd rather pay the extra few bucks. I read an article specifically about AMD and their memory changes with Navi a while back, but here's the only thing I could find after a quick Google search. And, sorry - it says that AMD is EXPECTED to move away, not that they've announced as much - so there is still hope! https://www.extremetech.com/computing/289391-hbm2-vs-gddr6-new-video-compares-contrasts-memory-types "Navi, at least, is anticipated to be a GDDR6 chip and all of Nvidia’s refreshed Turing cards have relied on the RAM type. It’s generally expected that AMD will also move away from HBM2 once it refreshes its high-end GPUs."