Any EEs that can comment on at what point do we just flip the architecture over so the GPU pcb is the motherboard and the cpu/memory lives on a PCIe slot? It seems like that would also have some power delivery advantages.
vincheezel · 21h ago
Good to see I’m not the only person that’s been thinking about this. Wedging gargantuan GPUs onto boards and into cases, sometimes needing support struts even, and pumping hundreds of watts through a power cable makes little sense to me. The CPU, RAM, these should be modules or cards on the GPU. Imagine that! CPU cards might be back..
ksec · 19h ago
It is not like CPU aren't getting higher wattage as well. Both AMD and Intel have roadmap for 800W CPU.
At 50-100W for IO, this only leaves 11W per Core on a 64 Core CPU.
avgeek23 · 12h ago
And the memory should be a onboard module on the cpu card intel/amd should replicate what apple did with a unified same ringbus sort of memory modules. Lower latency,higher throughput.
Would push performance further. Although companies like intel would bleed the consumer dry with, a certain i5-whatever cpu with onboard memory of 16 gigs could be insanely priced compared to what you'd pay for addon memory.
At 50-100W for IO, this only leaves 11W per Core on a 64 Core CPU.
Would push performance further. Although companies like intel would bleed the consumer dry with, a certain i5-whatever cpu with onboard memory of 16 gigs could be insanely priced compared to what you'd pay for addon memory.