[mikepurvis]

Are current datacenter deployments structured in such a way that the memory can later be moved to newer GPU dies? Or is it all packaged together as on consumer graphics cards?

I assumed the latter and therefore that the memory is depreciating along with the GPU cores it's soldered onto PCBs with.

... or is it a different argument being made, perhaps that depreciation for GPUs has slowed because rising demand will keep them in service longer?

[nl]

The argument is that all GPUs are currently appreciating (!!)

Google is still running 10 year old Tesla T4s at full capacity.

This is way beyond the expected lifetime.

[fragmede]

Removing RAM chips off old cards is uneconomical, until it isn't. With things going the way they are, if you've got a card with soldered on RAM that could be transplanted to a newer card, I think you'll start seeing that happening.

[fer]

It has already become economic. While not exactly the same, the NVIDIA 2080 11GB cards are notorious for being upcycled with extra RAM: https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/146us12/nvidia_gefo...

[donaldjbiden]

Chinese recyclers already do this with laptops