4GB HBM Better than 8GB and 12GB. 

By: TechAvenue

 

A lot has been talked about regarding the limitations of 4GB HBM and how it would handle high resultion when compared to 8GB and 12GB. Well we can finally put that worry to rest as AMD's Chief Scientist did a fascinating interview with TechteamGB where he basically said that the Fury X's half a terabyte of memory bandwidth more than makes up for it's 4GB Limitation. According to him 4GB HBM: 

 

"Effectively get rid of frame buffer size.” He said it “exceeds the capability of 8GB or 12GB of memory and the reason for that is that there is so much bandwidth inside HBM that if you have system memory we can swap memory around inside the machine, swap between HBM and system memory and keep the working set in the 4 Gigabytes and it never get’s in the way of the GPU. “

He goes on to say: “What happens is you effectively get rid of the problems of frame buffer size and the extraordinary result that comes on the back of that is when you benchmark a Fiji chip is..when start to wind up the resolution higher and higher you would start to think that our 4GB would come to the limit to the headroom a bottleneck but far from that it actually as you wind the resolution up we get better and better we start beating a Titan X and indeed we consistently beat it if you go to high enough resolution so HBM is actually the future of memory."

 

Well all we can say now is that we can finally use our 16GB of RAM to good use. :)

 

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