An Introduction to HBM - High Bandwidth Memory Article

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/19/2015 03:59 PM | source: | 31 comment(s)

AMD lifts the embargo on their all new hot tech, HBM memory. We have a little review on that. It is without doubt that at least some of the upcoming graphics cards will be the first to feature high-bandwidth memory (HBM), let's call is the turbo-charged offspring to GDDR5 memory, used in today’s graphics cards.

Read the article right here.

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chispy
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#5074953 Posted on: 05/19/2015 03:27 PM

Excellent article Hilbert , thank you.

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#5074961 Posted on: 05/19/2015 03:32 PM

Awesome article! =]

Only concern I have is the limitation of only 4gb for now. Since DX12 will bring stacked memory, Crossfire solutions will love HBM memory. =]

Idk, I feel like it's going to be more complex then DX12 = stacked memory. It will probably depend on the game, the implementation, if it will be fully stacked or just some resources, etc.

But yeah overall it should be a net benefit.

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#5074982 Posted on: 05/19/2015 03:45 PM

Cooling will be a *** (female-dog)

AMD is all about 4k lately. So I would expect 8GB version.

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#5074998 Posted on: 05/19/2015 03:57 PM

With D3D12 exposing streaming assets, like virtualized textures, future games and apps shouldn't need to preload everything in the video memory and--in theory--GPUs won't need gobs of local memory, just a small amount of really fast pool (HBM). We shall see.

PCI-E 4.0 is also on the horizon...

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#5075028 Posted on: 05/19/2015 04:12 PM

So....... Pascal will have HBM2? Shut up and take my father's money!

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