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What I don't really see, HSA-wise, is how they plan to cater for the fact that graphics and compute cores favour significantly different types of memory (DDR vs GDDR). From what I understand, one of the major cripplers of on-die graphics so far as been its reliance on the same bog-standard memory interface shared with the CPU. How will this interact with AMD's side-port memory schemes?


In addition to what other posters have noted... there are rumors that future AMD APUs are going to support both DDR4 and GDDR5 RAM.

http://hardware-beta.slashdot.org/story/14/01/20/0159210/amd...

AMD has had sub-par (compared to Intel) memory controllers recently. So maybe the improved memory is for naught. Nonetheless, they're working on it...


DDR4 will help when it comes to market next year. The speeds start at 2133 MT/s.




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