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hey everyone i'm steve from gamers nexus dotnet and we were here at GDC 2016 and we just got back from the capsaicin event last night put on by AMD and we spoke to a few people from andy at the event about some of the new architectures dx12 and virtual reality but before getting to our new coverage today on hbm too pretty important stuff all of this GDC 2016 coverage is brought to you by raw Furies goner platformer game it's a new indie platformer game that you're seeing on the screen now the new architecture that's of most importance immediately anyway is of course Polaris and that's the one that we saw at CES where Andy had a side-by-side with an unnamed Polaris GPU against a GTX 950 and they were showing off sort of a kilowatt performance so it's a per per watt item that andy has been really big on showing off lately and with Polaris there's an expected 2.5 x gained over the current architectures and then going into viga that's in the next one and after that is na'vi going into viga there's what looks like an hbm version 2 integration that's pretty big news the first version of hbm was on fury where the fury x cards and that was the Fiji architecture and hbm for those who don't know is memory that is physically on the die of the GPU and that makes it much faster it's actually significantly faster than something like g ddr and going into hbm to there's still an expected something like 2x gained over HB m14 memory bandwidth and that as i said was on the slide for andy's roadmap presentation of their GPU architecture in the immediate future following this is na'vi and navy has a couple more ambiguous notes in the chart but it shows what basically says scalability and then a new type of memory which is completely unnamed we would expect it would obviously be something other than hbm to since hbm to was explicitly named in the slide and then polaris we would expect would not have hbm to again wasn't explicitly mentioned doesn't seem like the kind of thing that you would do if your listing it for viga so polaris looks like probably an HB m1 maybe some gddr5 or gddr5 x thrown in there like Pascal is doing with GP 104 but other than that the thing to look forward to right now is a viga in terms of and these next big memory implementation and that will bring viga up to parity with Nvidia's impending Pascal also do this year so both of those two GPU architecture should be due sometime this year and we'll both include hbm to on some level check the link the description below for more information on this and of course check our other coverage where we talk to Roy Taylor and we've got something going up where we talked to Scott Watson former tech report and now AMD that's all going on later today so check that out in the channel thank you for watching I'll see you all next time