Oh yeah, new AMD mobo, i'm tempting asrock-x370-taichi(white mobo).

It will use the HBM memory as a cache. So less important/bandwidth intensive data will be in System Memory/SSD/HDD and take advantage of the memory hierachy. (AKA. Largest+Slowest to Smallest+Fastest in accordance to processing urgency.)
Remember, this really isn't meant for gaming, although if games use it, then good for them, but I doubt that will be the case untill Vega's architecture becomes the baseline and nVidia adopts the standard as well.

It's main use is professional markets that have multi-terabyte datasets... It might be good for massive texture sets though or Virtual Texturing.

Yes and no.

AMD have caught up with nVidia in all major areas that have given nVidia such an efficiency edge over the past few years.

But AMD should continue to be leading nVidia in other areas still such as Asynchronous Compute. (Aka. Direct X 12 and Vulkan.)

Pascal and Maxwell in general have been more efficient than Graphics Core Next, but when games favor Graphics Core Next, AMD's hardware has typically managed to be pretty competitive all things considered.

There are also rumors that we will be getting a Pascal refresh this year, rather than Volta equipped with HBM2 or GDDR6, although nVidia could surprise me and equip a Pascal GPU with HBM2.
So it should be interesting to see if Vega beats Titan X and the Geforce 2000 series... And if it does, AMD may have the fastest GPU for many many months.

Already owned it. My Steam key activated on Origin.

Thanks for the heads up though.

After years of teasing and rumors with Elite Dangerous, someone finally encountered the first alien in that game and Jesus Fucking Christ, it is intense. Yall need to watch it, the video is only 3 minutes long!

I mean just WOW. This is the type of shit No Man's Sky should have been

I understand.

But it also gives AMD another option besides VRAM + system RAM, and it's with their Pro SSG range of enterprise card. They could pair those VEGA chips with onboard NAND memory or an M.2 stick and offer cards with ridiculous amounts of memory to work with data intensive calculus.

But yeah, I don't see this becoming a thing in the gaming space anytime soon.

That was intense. Well done, Frontier, well done.

CES is quite underwhelming this year. There's nothing noteworthy beside amd new gpu and that 4k monitor

Computerbase.de has now confirmed that the new PG27UQ will come to Germany for 1999€. That sounds a lot more like an ASUS price.

As far as I recall, CES is usually the same every year. It's not a tech enthusiast show like Computex or gaming based like CDC, so it's not surprising that they don't show much about their gaming oriented products.

Last year Nvidia also talked a lot about self driving cars and AI.

The euro-dollar almost parity will hurt us a lot with electronics, but even with a 25% VAT, that's a hefty price increase.

The US price may have been false as well.

TFTCentral lists the same price point: http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/news_archive/37.htm#asus_rog_swift_pg27uq

But maybe the press release has a mistake and it's $1,499.

Does that just mean that it's 1440p?

I would want the same monitor only in 34 inches. 27 inches is what I have now and I have outgrown it.