During its GDC 2017 event, AMD showcased the benefits of its High-Bandwidth Cache Controller. According to the red team, this new memory architecture allows Vega GPUs to do a number of exciting new things that its predecessors can’t.
High-Bandwidth Controller Cache can handle memory traffic in a vastly more efficient fashion, but also significantly cuts back on wasteful memory allocations.
In order to showcase the benefits of High-Bandwidth Controller Cache, AMD showcased Deus Ex: Mankind Divided’s in-game benchmark running with and without High-Bandwidth Controller Cache.
AMD limited the amount of VRAM that was available for this application to 2GB (so that it can better showcase the benefits of this new memory architecture).
As the red team claimed, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided offers 50% performance gains in average framerates and 100% performance gains in minimum framerates.
It’s also worth noting that the tech demo was running on a Ryzen + Vega combo PC system.
This new memory architecture will definitely help gamers overcome VRAM limitations, especially when gaming at really high resolutions (such as 4K resolutions). Do note the GPUs should be powerful enough to handle games in 4K, and this feature won’t magically improve your experience if you are not VRAM limited.
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And it starts. Can’t wait to see what AMD has in store and how Nvidia will counter.
same, can’t wait to see what amd has in store and how nvidia will counter so that i get the new nvidia card
Can’t wait to see how many “can’t wait to see what AMD has in store and how Nvidia will counter” can get to.
“can’t wait to see what AMD has in store and how Nvidia will counter”
I too am looking for the 1080ti. If it hits the titan xp performances i’ll have to ditch my titanxm.
Even if the AMD card offers more potential benefits?
yes but it won’t happen
Never say never.
They said the same about Ryzen.
Yet again, another boring AMD press conference :
Indeed but i’ve heard there’s a second part this evening.
Don’t get your hopes up too high.
yes well. I’m an intel green boy anyways. I am just curious.
Oh baby, that is promising (if indeed true).
Going for a red build again! 😀
If AMD can come through with perf/price, I’ll sell my 1080 right away. 😀 It will be a few years before I decide to do a new build, so sticking with the 3770k for a bit longer.
They keep this up my next gpu is AMD when I upgrade.
don’t do it
Maybe read the article again. The numbers only apply in VRAM limited instances. If you are VRAM limited you aren’t buying the right GPU.
Minimum FPS are the most important kind of FPS! Sounds great.
This article clearly was only talking about in cases where you are vram limited. A smart GPU purchase always puts you out of that category.
When was the last time these kind of bombastic announcements were actually true (from any company)?
In case of AMD specifically I cannot remember any performance related announcement that would not be right. One example they said ZEN will have 40% higher IPC, yet they delivered 63% higher IPC vs. Carrizo and 50+% against FX. Another in case of old bulldozer they stated IPC will be lower than previous Phenom II. I could get on and on…
They cannot really state something that would be completely misleading, they have investors, shareholders…
…. So do Nvidia, Intel, Microsoft, etc. etc. etc.
Yet, they’ve never stopped any of them, have they?
But unlike AMD, those guys have nothing to lose if caught with misleading claims. AMD has to retake market share so they need to be as transparent as possible.
Apart from annoying lawsuits, now. That 3.5GB scandal blew up in Nvidia’s faces quite sorely, after all, meaning now anyone else who looks too closely at hardware advertisements has recent precedent to go off of.
Sure, on the one hand, that should work in our favour, in theory. On the other, f*ck knows.
Well yeah, but any fine they get to pay is spare change. Intel had to pay 1.4 and 1.25 billions in two separate lawsuits for playing dirty to AMD. They earn 60 billion per year. But yeah, hopefully they all start to be more open in the future.
So “only if you are V-Ram limited” does this feature really start to show itself off……?? Riiiiiiiight….. So are they preparing people for their cards having much less RAM on them?