SK Hynix jumped the gun and has confirmed both the Radeon R9 Fury X name of AMD's upcoming flagship graphics card as well as the fact that it will use SK Hynix's 20nm-class 1st generation High Bandwidth Memory (HBM1).

Although it was earlier believed that AMD will not officially announce its new flagship Radeon R9 Fury X before June 24th and just announce the rest of its Radeon 300 series graphics cards today, it appears that AMD will actually talk about Fury X as SK Hynix has jumped the gun saying that AMD's Radeon R9 Fury X will feature its 1st generation High Bandwidth Memory (HBM1) based on SK Hynix’s advanced 20nm-class DRAM process technology.

SK Hynix's HBM1 represents a groundbreaking leap in performance by enabling a 1,024 bit wide memory interface to achieve 128GB/second performance while reducing power by 50% over traditional GDDR5 DRAM solutions. HBM1 utilizes through-silicon-via technology and microbumps to interconnect 4 DRAM dies and 1 base die to achieve 1GB DRAM density per device.

According to SK Hynix, the AMD Radeon R9 Fury X graphics card utilizes 4GB HBM1 to achieve up to 512GB/second memory bandwidth performance while reducing memory subsystem power by up to 85%.

“AMD has pioneered the adoption of HBM1 technology in graphics applications achieving unprecedented memory bandwidth while reducing memory subsystem power” said Joe Macri, AMD Corporate Vice President and Product CTO, “Integrating AMD’s Graphics Processing Unit and HBM1 on a single 2.5D silicon interposer represents a major step forward in high performance graphics applications”.

SK Hynix was quite keen to note that the 1.2V 1GB HBM1 device is available now in production quantities, although AMD will probably get the bulk of it and is the first company to use High Bandwidth Memory.







Source: Videocardz.com.