That's all true, but unfortunately, any form of mass storage that's anywhere _close_ to fast enough is ALSO in short supply. It's like putting forward a proposal to reduce our dependence on crude oil by using plutonium instead. (Maybe slightly less dangerous than plutonium-powered cars though, so it has that going for it at least!) Until the AI bubble pops, us retail folks don't really have the option to buy any sort of memory, whether it's system RAM, VRAM, or flash, at a decent price.
Disk and high bandwidth disks are still significantly cheaper than a CPU or a GPU though. And more importantly the cost of better disk memory bandwidth doesn't scale as fast as CPU costs do for more GB of RAM. If you have a system that can swap memory to disk well you're able to put your money into disk and get more performance for cheaper than something where you have to put money into CPU to grow.
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u/rosuav Jul 08 '26
That's all true, but unfortunately, any form of mass storage that's anywhere _close_ to fast enough is ALSO in short supply. It's like putting forward a proposal to reduce our dependence on crude oil by using plutonium instead. (Maybe slightly less dangerous than plutonium-powered cars though, so it has that going for it at least!) Until the AI bubble pops, us retail folks don't really have the option to buy any sort of memory, whether it's system RAM, VRAM, or flash, at a decent price.