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when Nvidia announced that its new Pascal consumer GPUs wouldn't be using HBM to video memory some folks were left feeling a little confused however that isn't to say that they didn't change anything about their vram as these cards are using the also newly released gddr5 X so what's special about it other than the fact that it has an X in its name which might be trying to remind people of words like exciting extreme or expensive well that might depend on who you buy your components from so instead let's talk about what gddr5 X actually is it's a type of video RAM which does things like hold textures store images in frame buffers provide the GPU with lighting information in short it holds the data that your GPU actually has to process so that your computer will display your game properly but the arisen question is what's special about gd-r 5x in particular and is it going to make your games look any better or run faster well usually vram tends to matter more the higher the resolution your games are running at making it especially important for multi-monitor setups or if you're trying to run things with aggressive anti-aliasing or high res texture settings as these things require more stuff to be held in memory and with games becoming ever more detailed than higher resolution monitor is becoming more common and cheaper quicker memory is also becoming more important graphics memory has placed an emphasis on wide bandwidth for a long time but gddr5 X improves upon the existing gddr5 standard by allowing twice as much data to be accessed at one time 64 bytes instead of 32 and while this may not sound like much we should see overall transfer rates of around 10 gigabits per second or even higher per pen and nearly 450 gigabytes per second of overall bandwidth while drawing less power than its predecessor pretty sweet but slow down just a minute what about that fancy new HBM that AMD came out with why is GDR 5x a big deal then while it's true that HB M which you can learn more about here has higher throughput and has a smaller footprint which are both great things on your graphics card specifically than GD r 5x GD r 5x should be quite a bit easier not to mention cheaper to implement than HBM since it's still quite similar to the ubiquitous gddr5 and although both Nvidia and AMD are heavily rumored to be moving towards HBM 2.0 for some of their upcoming architectures gddr5 x might appear on more mid-range future graphics cards as well as the greater accessibility of high-res displays and be growing interest in virtual reality headsets will make high throughput vram increasingly important currently GD r 5x is only available on Nvidia's new flagship the geforce gtx 1080 but don't be surprised to see it paired with more GPUs down the road and whether you're going for gddr5 X or HBM pay attention to what kind of VRAM is in your next card if you want to get into surround gaming hook up an oculus rift or HTC vive or just really really like things with X's in them the might ODS a sci-fi key cap set is available over on mass drop it's a customizable key cap set that is set in the theme of the first-person shooter game that you've never heard of Counter Strike global Offensive you'll have to pick whatever like kit and build you want to fit the layout and theme and schematic and whatnot of your keyboard but that is very easy to do on their website and it supports tons of different layouts even non-standard ones from various companies so you should be covered you're also fine even if you have liked Nordic German uk-us layouts all that kind of stuff and additionally blizzards overwatch inspired novelties will be available as well the braces 39.99 but varies widely based on different options that are selected in the check out as we just discussed and we'll be launching the morning of June 13th so go to draw dots slash tech quickie - MIT Oh and you can check all that kind of stuff out thank you guys for watching don't forget to like it dislike it subscribe all those common things that you're used to by now if you have ideas for future tech quickie episodes put them in the bottom and if you like X's go over to channel super fun cuz I don't know why annex has anything to do with that name but just you know whatever don't forget to subscribe I'll see you next time