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The 1080ti is out there for almost 10 years now. It has 11GB of VRAM. A 5090 has 32GB.

SOCs with unified memory have shifted this a bit forward, but they're also expensive as shit.

10TB ram in a consumer device is simply not happening in the next 10 years.

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Half a year ago you could get a AI max 395+ with 128GB ram in mobile form factor for ~$2200. The same thing costs $3700. Same SoC, same memory.

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10TB is about 80 times that, 200K in today’s money. A lot of capacity is coming online in the next 5 years and it’s reasonable to think we can get there with better process and stacking (the latter does little for pricing, but enables shorter latencies).