Why are people here even down playing the benefits of GDDR5 ? News flash people, GDDR5 takes a dump on DDDR3 with ESRAM and I'm being serious here. What are devs going to do with only 32mb of fast cache when the rest of the the memory is slow. There will be alot of cases in where the GPU will need to access the main system memory in fact that is what should happen mostly considering the ESRAM is likely used as a locality of reference for frequently accessed data but eventually it will need to read from the main memory where the ESRAM doesn't have that piece of data. 32mb is tiny considering it will only give a miniscule bump in bandwidth. BTW the PR team has ran out of everything thing else to talk about so their probably cornered to talk up the advantages of the ESRAM when the engineers will realize that such a small amount of memory will mean jack for performance impacts.
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