truegenius :
ddr5 !I have heard just rumors, the sources are good but they do not give anything more than showing the cookie jar. Kaveri iGPU's wise, the top end iGPU's will feature higher speed integrated GDDR5 and come in quad and hexcore veriants, also on lower voltage parts. The lower end iGPU's will feature low clocked GDDR5. Some stories is that AMD's iGPU with GDDR5 is capable of the unrestrictive bandwidths needed. Talk of the top end part achieving the same bandwidth as the HD7790 just released around 80-90GB\s. AMD is intending its APU's along with the soon to be spec released HD8600 sea islands parts which on rumor the HD8670/90 are both comparible to the HD7790, very similar performance. That will basically offer consumers $200 and under Chip +GPU options with Dual Graphics/Crossfire support.
source ? i need recipie of their cookies or atleast all the cookies of their jar we can share them (50% for you and 50% for me and rest for others )
arey they (amd) going to skip ddr4 or they are going for something like side port memory on motherboard or seperate slot for ddr5 with ddr3/4 as main memory (means more pins and availability of ddr5 modules will be an issue) ?
hd7790 performance with an igpu ! my hd6770 is not feeling well now even at 1000/1400mhz clocks (gpu/mem)
imo
they (amd) needs to improve efficiency of their imc of apu/cpu/gpu instead of increasing native supported speed
even their graphics cards are bad in memory bandwith efficiency, i only got 70GB/s bandwidth after an overclock of 4x1440 mhz from 4x1200mhz on gpu memory on my hd6770 in sandra benchmark
and if they can achieve >80% efficiency then they can easily provide much more performance without any other major change
Some of the internet leaks or rumours:
1) the CPU will continue to support DDR3 until DDR4 becomes the standard in which case the CPU part will have support for DDR4.
2) The iGPU component will have exclusive usage to the integrated GDDR5, for graphics bandwidth is king.
Some of the implementations;
1) SoC design with 1GB of GDDR5 integrated onto the SoC, this seems the most likely.
2) Graphics card style Chips on PCB, since we know AMD's steamroller arch makes reference to multiple processor addon support this is very feasible.
3) Hybrid RAM, one half GDDR5 the other side is DDR3/4
Current APU's are only able to achieve 20-40GB/s bandwidth depending on DDR3 used, this was very similar to GDDR3 limitations and the move to GDDR5 has seen now up to 350gb/s. Another thing is GDDR6 is soon also to be out and it appears another avenue for AMD to feed its iGPU some potent bandwidth. Testing DDR3 1066 going to 1866 yield around 50% improvement. For the iGPU component alone AMD needs the bandwidth. for the CPU side improving the IMC is more fundamental.