Top-end AMD "Fiji" to Get Fancy SKU Name

[HumanSmoke]

Well, yes, the interposer specifically. Thank you for that clarification (edited my post to be more clear).
My underlying point should still stand though considering Fiji is HBM and not HBM2 and using that interposer, correct? So there will not be an 8GB card out of the gate.

AMD will probably just follow Nvidia's example. Maxwell isn't being offered as a math co-processor (Tesla) due to the elimination of the bulk of double precision ability. AMD would likely follow a similar model since they cannot compete with their own 16GB vRAM equipped W9100. It also remains to be seen whether Fiji has had its native FP64 reduced in an effort to reduce the GPUs power usage envelope.

 

[EarthDog]

I'm not sure the market plays a role yet with the tech kcal limitation. I'd agree if they COULD do it out of the gate, but, they cant. So market placement really doesn't play a role in the amount of vram on First gen fiji cards.
(Or what did I miss? Lol!)

 

[Caring1]

Well, yes, the interposer specifically. Thank you for that clarification (edited my post to be more clear).

My underlying point should still stand though considering Fiji is HBM and not HBM2 and using that interposer, correct? So there will not be an 8GB card out of the gate.

Dual chip card?

 

[EarthDog]

Dual chip card?

That could be one way... but unless they use DX12's furture ability to use the ram as a true pool and not mirrored data, then its still 4GB for each card.

 

[RealNeil]

Doesn't memory pooling have to do with the way that your software is coded?

 

[EarthDog]

A bit out of my wheelhouse, but I thought it was in the API... which is why dx12 can do this and not 11???

 

[RealNeil]

I think that I read somewhere that you need DX-12 ~and~ enabled software as well.