New AMD Memory Tech ?

[Dicehunter]

So was talking to someone in a little gaming group I'm in, He's in America and shall remain anonymous but he's claimed several times on different occasions to have worked with AMD on being able to use system memory in lieu of GPU memory to "augment" a memory starved GPU.

It sounds a bit like HBCC that was introduced with Vega but apparently works on older cards like his dual 6990 setup, I'm taking it as a pinch of salt right now but would be interesting to see if it is true.

@LtMatt Would be interesting to get your take on this considering he's claimed his little dev team worked directly with AMD which is a pretty big claim.

 

[Dicehunter]

Why would they bother? Where would this be an advantage?

Could be a selling pint for the AMD brand as a whole "Your GPU's life span will be longer with our memory tech" or something to that extent.

 

[Dicehunter]

i dont trust anyone with a pc that looks like that

Well he told me his company is Janssens Dynamic which makes a real time 2d/3d conversion tool called ViewVerge but when I asked him about specifics about the hardware and GPU chipset changes he claims to have made he got very aggressive.

 

[Dicehunter]

Isn't this what the HSBC thing does with the HBM memory on the FUJI cards onwards?

HBCC *high bandwidth cache controller* it was introduced with Vega and can help give higher minmums and average FPS as well as smooth out memory intense operations but he's claiming his companies implementation can "add" VRAM by using system memory.

 

[Dicehunter]

Ah yes that's the one, was it vega I thought it was earlier than that, your probably right as my memory isn't as good as it was.

It may have been earlier that they talked about it but my only knowledge on it is from Raja Koduri hyping it up prior to releasing Vega 56 & 64.