Quote Originally Posted by RVWinkle View Post
If you look at the DDR 5 roadmaps you can come to the conclusion that memory bandwidth is going to be a non issue for the next 2 years or more. 256 bit differential ddr 5 will have something like 20x the bandwith as 512 bit ddr 3. In the same time period GPU performance with increase by 2x at best.
Meaning <256bit buses will become viable for performance parts. Within, say one year, a 128bit bus with conservative speed bin of differential GDDR5 will easily outperform current 256bit GDDR5 solutions, let alone 512bit GDDR3...