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Doesn't quite work like that bruh...sorry.
"System memory (DDR3) benefits from low latency (tight timings) at the expense of bandwidth, GDDR5's case is the opposite. Timings for GDDR5 would seems unbelieveably slow in relation to DDR3, but the speed of VRAM is blazing fast in comparison with desktop RAM- this has resulted from the relative workloads that a CPU and GPU undertake. Latency isn't much of an issue with GPU's since their parallel nature allows them to move to other calculation when latency cycles cause a stall in the current workload/thread. The performance of a graphics card for instance is greatly affected (as a percentage) by altering the internal bandwidth, yet altering the external bandwidth (the PCI-Express bus, say lowering from x16 to x8 or x4 lanes) has a minimal effect. This is because there is a great deal of I/O (textures for examples) that get swapped in and out of VRAM continuously- the nature of a GPU is many parallel computations, whereas a CPU computes in a basically linear way."
There's a reason why cats are bustin nuts over the 8GB announcement. The gains in bandwidth significantly overshadow the slight losses in latency. With higher RES games, the GDDR5 is a HUGE asset.
You think cats are doing jumpin jacks over this for nothing?
It's not close, no matter how hard yall trying to force and spin it.
GDDR5 > GDDR3
stop the nonsense Ice. This is open and shut fam.
Is MS can somehow change out the memory (HIGHLY UNLIKELY) they are at a disadvantage man. Yall nikkaz acting hard headed.
Quoting the internet does not change anything. People are going crazy over the 8GB of GDDR5 memory is
A. It's a bullet point that most have no conception and understanding of and it works well within the frame of console wars.
B. It is expensive and only the GeForce Titan is close with 6GB of GDDR5 ram.
8GB is still 8GB at the end of the day. What is the difference is how much is allotted for the OS. You haven't accounted for the ESRAM in the next xbox. It's not just as cut and dry as saying 8GB of GDDR5>>>>>>>>>>>>>>everything. It's not that simple.