Quote Originally Posted by trinibwoy View Post
GDDR3 is far cheaper and much more widely available than GDDR5. Also, Nvidia is concerned about the cost of their chips not the cost of the cards. If they use GDDR5 they don't get any benefit from using more expensive memory. Expensive chip + cheap memory for the same net performance and price to the consumer is an overall win for the chip maker. It's the AIB's that get squeezed.
Do you think the difference in cost will be enough to compensate double the chips, double the PCB complexity? Maybe in the first weeks/months of GDDR5, but not later.