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AMD Supporting GDDR5 wouldn't be a replacement for DDR3 or DDR4, it's purpose would be purely for Graphics.
However, if we are to go by what AMD has done in the past, the GDDR5 memory will probably be used as Side-port memory, AMD did a similar thing with it's Xpress, Radeon 2000, 3000 and 4000 series of IGP's where it bundled dedicated DDR3/DDR2 memory dedicated to the graphics.
However, they lacked any decent amounts of bandwidth so the performance benefit was minimal at best, the main improvement though came from lower latency as Physics comes into play. (Closer the memory is to a processor, the lower the latency.)
The other side of the coin though is cost, GDDR5 isn't *Super cheap* yet (Otherwise low-end GPU's would all have it!), Kaveri and AMD's other APU's are cost sensitive, so they will probably leave it up to the motherboard manufacturers (Which would take on the cost burden) to decide whether they want the GDDR5 or not.
I could be completely wrong though, but it's my take on it. - But we will see once Kaveri launches.

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