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"Xpoint pretty much broken"

h4rm0ny said:
Well Navi will have HBM and more significantly, the architecture is designed for HBM rather than attached to an older architecture as with the Fury. If you're making an architecture with much higher memory bandwidth, you design it differently. HBM and Xpoint are not the same thing, but they both have applications in the GPU area. So maybe XPoint was intended to be a "we have a big new thing too" idea.
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Are you sure you're not confusing Navi with Vega?

AMD's slides said Vega had HBM2, but Navi had 'Next Gen' memory.

Source: http://cdn.videocardz.com/1/2016/04/AMD-Radeon-2016-2017-Polaris-Vega-Navi-Roadmap.png
 
AllBodies said:
Are you sure you're not confusing Navi with Vega?

AMD's slides said Vega had HBM2, but Navi had 'Next Gen' memory.

Source: http://cdn.videocardz.com/1/2016/04/AMD-Radeon-2016-2017-Polaris-Vega-Navi-Roadmap.png
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I've been taking that to mean both Vega and Navi have HBM but they didn't claim it for Vega as there might be GDDR5 implementations of it. And that maybe Navi had some more advanced integration of HBM. Are you saying Navi will have something beyond HBM2?
 
Burr said:
It does indeed. Sounds a little too good to me lol.
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Maybe the reality is we'll see lots of 8GB cards at 512 GB/s and 16 GB at the high end at 1 TB/s. But they won't actually go to the spec limit of 32/64GB at 2 TB/s.

So still great, but not insane by what will be 2018's standards.
 
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