RAM, bam, thank you Ma'am! Samsung fires up fastest-ever memory Samsung says it has started making a new and faster form of DRAM. The Korean colossus says the wheels are turning and pistons pumping at plants churning out High Bandwidth Memory (HBM2) DRAM. HBM2 was only signed off as a standard on January 12th, when electronics industry standards group JEDEC (founded as the Joint Electron …
Can't help thinking our beloved heroic headline writing soviet missed a trick there :(
Nice change to read something about cool new stuff which is ALREADY IN PRODUCTION, rather than a perpetual decade away, though :)
PS Why do I seem to be receiving eleven minutes to edit my splaffs today? I feel like I'm channelling the incomparable greatness of Spinal Tap
Well, they've already used HBM1 memory on the Fury GPUs (Which is why they're restricted to 4Gb per package) so I'd expect to see this on the next gen GPUs and possibly a lighter implementation being used as a 'slow' cache on Zen based APUs.
I'm not sure if that much cache would make a huge difference on a straight CPU? At least, not as dramatic a difference as a on a GPU/CPU combo where the GPU can utilise it as VRAM, allowing significantly chunkier games (And GPU accelerated apps) to be played without a discrete GPU - so good for gaming laptops perhaps? Anyone got any educated opinions?
Steven R
Until they start producing the 8Gb parts it's future is questionable in GPU's. Insomuch that VR and 4k gaming are going to increase demand for texture space. 4Gb is fine today but I dunno about 6-12 months from now. Also while 256 GBps is impressive as memory goes it's actually slower than the rated bandwidth of some of the higher end GDDR5 cards out there (Usually achieved with a 512 bit bus). That said the power requirements and the clock freq needed are presumably much less so mid range graphics cards and APU's does sound like the likely fit.
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