sirmonkey1985
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Can't everyone else also see the PS4.1 and XBone.1 coming in a few years with HMB?
was going to post that same thing earlier.. definitely could see the xbox one and PS4 and nintendo using HBM when they decide to do a hardware refresh sometime after HBM gen 2 is released. also see there being a really good market for the high end performance/enterprise laptops/tablets since those gpu's won't need the same PCB real estate that current gpu's need for dedicated graphic memory.
Also, for the great number of people in this world 4gb of system RAM is enough. Wouldn't an APU with 4gb of on-die RAM (shared with GPU) be the perfect setup for a super small form factor unit? You need onboard NIC, sound, and SATA and you're done.
Also, didn't AMD say with the newest version of Mantle that X-fire cards get to access the VRAM as a single pool? Wouldn't that mean a hypothetical X395 with 8gb of HMB... actually be a true 8GB? You could see a lot more dual solutions down the line, no? 385, 375, etc etc..
if that ends up happening, that would be awesome.