14 DAY TRIAL // The long-time-heralded HBM (High Bandwidth Memory) powered Radeon GPU is finally getting an official AMD announcement date. On June 16, the world will see if the great leap forward in GPU memory stacking architecture will be a gamble worth taking by AMD.
Previous rumors that placed the announcement in the second quarter of 2015 proved to be somewhat right in the end as E3 is nearly upon us, and it seems to be a good time to steal the show before Nvidia crashes the party with its future Pascal microarchitecure and its rumored 1100 Series.
Nevertheless, this announcement will be a welcoming change of pace in the GPU industry as AMD pushes further with its (HBM) memory stacking technology long before Nvidia could counter with anything similar.
With Pascal in the far future and with DirectX 12 knocking at the door, it’s clear that AMD will have an upper hand until Nvidia pushes its GPU development quick enough to steal the show. With the recent launch of GeForce 980Ti, it’s clear that this won’t happen anytime soon.
HBM, acronyms to impress
The new HBM technology is rumored to introduce GDDR5 memory stacking on four columns on the same silicon die, drastically reducing power consumption and freeing up space for more modules without cramping up the allocated area.
An innovative solution, it seems, not far away from what Nvidia has also promised with its stacked DRAM future 1000 Series project, but one can only wonder how this new design will avoid major cooling issues.
With the presentation called “AMD Presents: The New Era of PC Gaming,” the company will announce its new GPU during the E3 week at the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles, CA during the AMD-sponsored PC gaming show that will take place the same evening.