{"id":101768,"date":"2016-08-22T08:35:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T06:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=101768"},"modified":"2016-08-22T08:40:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T06:40:02","slug":"the-next-generation-of-graphics-cards-could-have-64gb-of-vram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/101768-the-next-generation-of-graphics-cards-could-have-64gb-of-vram","title":{"rendered":"The next generation of graphics cards could have 64GB of VRAM"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nvidia and AMD recently released their newest generation of graphics cards, based on a 16nm FinFet and 14nm FinFet manufacturing process respectively.<\/p>\n

The new Pascal and Polaris architectures bring with them a massive boost in power efficiency and performance.<\/p>\n

However, consumers could see another\u00a0GPU generation\u00a0sooner than usual, with AMD set to launch\u00a0Vega in early 2017.<\/p>\n

AMD has stated that Vega will be using a new type of VRAM technology called HBM2.<\/p>\n

HBM<\/strong> (High-Bandwidth Memory) provides massive improvements in VRAM performance and has already been implemented on a number of Radeon cards, such as the R9 Nano<\/strong> and Fury X<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

HBM2<\/strong> is a subsequent improvement over HBM, offering more VRAM and better bandwidth, and is used in Nvidia’s Tesla P100<\/strong> Pascal GPUs.<\/p>\n

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HBM3<\/h3>\n

Both SK Hynix and Samsung are working on HBM3<\/a><\/strong>, which is set to offer twice the bandwidth of HBM2 at a lower cost than current VRAM technology.<\/p>\n

While HBM offers 256GB\/s of bandwidth per layer, HBM3 doubles that amount of bandwidth-per-layer to 512GB\/s.<\/p>\n

This means that when graphics cards begin implementing\u00a0HBM3, they could boast\u00a0up to 64GB of VRAM<\/strong> in a standard form factor.<\/p>\n

While it may be a while until we see HBM3 used in consumer GPUs, specialised graphics cards such as Nvidia’s Tesla lineup could make use of this technology in the near future.<\/p>\n

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Low-cost HBM<\/h3>\n

In addition to this new technology and its increased performance, SK Hynix and Samsung are also working on low-cost HBM technology<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

This VRAM technology is specifically aimed at consumers and dramatically lowers the cost-per-GB of HBM<\/strong> while maintaining performance.<\/p>\n

Low-cost High-Bandwidth Memory will feature increased pin speeds and similar bandwidth at a much lower cost than HBM2.<\/p>\n

Consumers can\u00a0expect this type of HBM to be implemented in GPUs soon after it is completed.<\/p>\n

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More gaming news<\/h3>\n

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What the NSA being hacked means for cybersecurity<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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We will see massive leaps in GPU technology in next couple of years, including more VRAM and cheaper graphics cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":84543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7,3],"tags":[31,1051,18023,2420,21320,47,1771,13756,21322,1121,45,14875,16819,1486,1083,16096],"class_list":["post-101768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-hardware","category-pc","tag-active","tag-amd","tag-gddr5","tag-geforce","tag-generation","tag-gpu","tag-graphics-cards","tag-hbm","tag-improvements","tag-memory","tag-nvidia","tag-pascal","tag-polaris","tag-radeon","tag-ram","tag-vram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}