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vlovich123 4 hours ago

Only if you’re running at 100%. Consumers generally do not.

monster_truck 3 hours ago | parent [-]

That hasn't been true since early HBM2 days, before the controllers standardized on power/voltage management and did things like leave them in P0 to ship on time

vlovich123 an hour ago | parent [-]

LPDDR/DDR/GDDR generally still win over HBM when there’s no data being transferred. HBM is primarily better in watts/byte transferred. Consumer electronics spend most of their time idle.

Zagitta an hour ago | parent [-]

Racing to idle is a very common power optimization technique

vlovich123 18 minutes ago | parent [-]

Right, but HBM idle is significantly worse than LPDDR idle or even DDR idle for that matter. That matters a lot precisely because the device is idle most of the time. Your idle power draw dominates.