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by Aurornis 243 days ago
> If they could release this for around the price of a 5090

This is not targeted at consumers. It’s competing with nVidia’s high RAM workstation cards. Think $10K price range, not $1-2K.

The 160GB of LPDDR5X chips alone is expensive enough that they couldn’t release this at the $2K price point unless they felt like giving it away (which they don’t)

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They better watch the price because you can get a 128GB AMD Strix Halo mini pc for ~1700-2000 today, and those will be even cheaper a year from now. If they're trying to be competitive then it really needs to be more in that ballpark than the massively overpriced Nvidia range.
In the back of my head floats $200 - $300 for the 64 GiB GDDR7 that you get for spending 7k-10k on an ADA 6000 96 GiB instead of 2k for a 5090 32 GiB. Am I off? Is LPDDR5X more expensive?
Note for myself: each 3 GiB GDDR7 IC costs $10-$15, x32 sums up to $320-$480, https://www.techpowerup.com/337853/samsung-3-gb-gddr7-chips-...
The GDDR7 found next to most Blackwell chips is more expensive than the LPDDR5X next to this or an M-series/Strix Halo chip.
It's probably spark dgx competition. So around 3-5k would be ideally it.

Any higher and its not really a disruption