{"video_id":"79x7HuDPDlU","title":"High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) As Fast As Possible","channel":"Techquickie","show":"Techquickie","published_at":"2016-05-06T14:58:16Z","duration_s":318,"segments":[{"start_s":0.12,"end_s":7.08,"text":"whenever there's a big new graphics card release there's always like a feeding","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.319,"end_s":11.679,"text":"frenzy as Gamers try to get their hands on it so that they can blow away dudes","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.32,"end_s":16.199,"text":"in crisper detail and at higher resolutions than ever before but while","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.32,"end_s":22.199,"text":"the performance of the graphics processor or GPU itself is often the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":19.48,"end_s":28.0,"text":"most talked about aspect of a new card the amount of video memory or vram on a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":25.24,"end_s":33.44,"text":"card can have a big effect on just 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memory hanging out on our cards for over seven years but the next big thing in vram is finally here I'm talking of course about high bandwidth memory or hbm so what exactly is it how is it better than older vram technology and most importantly is it actually going to make a difference in your games well just like any other type of vram hbm performs functions like keeping rendered frames in storage in a frame buffer no not that kind holding textures to make everything on screen look realistic and storing crucial information for lighting and other effects in short it holds the information that your GPU needs to act upon to push an image to your monitor but although hbm serves the same base basic function as other types of vram the way that it's actually implemented on your graphics card is very different for starters gddr5 and its predecessors require dram chips attached to the PCB spread out around the processor and the more memory you want and the higher speeds you want the more chips you need to plunk on there which combined with the traces for data and power to all those chips take up a lot of space on the car hard and increased manufacturing complexity and therefore cost hbm solves these problems two ways number one the vram is now directly attached to the GPU package meaning that hbm requires no more space than what's already normally taken up by the GPU two hbm uses 3D RAM dieses that are stacked on top of each other and that communicate using tiny interconnects called through silicon vas or tsvs which are called that since they physically go through all the Stacked layers at once kind of like a toothpick through a giant club sandwich and while you can't eat hbm like you would a Monte Christo these changes have the potential to give you some positively delicious results while gaming so the chips themselves have a much wider data interface that combined with stacking the chips gives you these little well Stacks that can move up to 256 gabt of data per second which means that a graphics card with just four stacks of hbm could have memory throughput of a full terabyte of data per second which will become increasingly important in the future as more and more non-gaming applications like Adobe Premiere for example start leveraging the graphics card for compute and as the resolutions that typical Gamers want to run at increase not to mention that there's things like multi 4k monitor setups that are becoming cheaper and more popular all of which will be easier with more memory bandwidth okay then lonus so how do I hop on board this hype train well hbn is only currently available on AMD's topend Radeon R9 Fury series but the rumor mill figures that NVIDIA's upcoming Pascal graphics cards will feature the technology and as we all know the high-end today is the mainstream of tomorrow so within a couple years we should all be able to have enough memory bandwidth to choke a horse speaking of choking horses or nope not related to that at all Dollar 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