Will HBM be an actual benefit on a consumer GPU anytime soon?

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I have a Fury-X and game at 3440 x 1440 and personally haven't noticed any issue with vram capacity, the card runs out of grunt before 4GB is a problem, atleast in the games I play. Whether that's down to driver witch craft or an inherent advantage of HBM i'm not sure or maybe the games I play just don't need more than 4GB(?)

In some modern games the FuryX has dropped in performance a long way behind the 980ti when at release there was only a small difference.
for example mass Effect:

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Mass-...55712/Specials/Mass-Effect-Andromeda-1223325/
980ti is 46% faster.

 

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In some modern games the FuryX has dropped in performance a long way behind the 980ti when at release there was only a small difference.
for example mass Effect:

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Mass-...55712/Specials/Mass-Effect-Andromeda-1223325/
980ti is 46% faster.

I had a 980Ti before the Fury-X, infact the same factory overclocked one they used in that article you linked to. I don't actually see a problem with vRAM in that title, especially considering cards with the same or less vRAM seem to be performing as you would expect.
https://kotaku.com/mass-effect-andromeda-pc-benchmarked-on-24-different-v-1793435595
Here's another article which shows the two abit closer, and as you can see, even at 1440p a 3GB 1060 is doing just fine.