The reason is that AMD memory channels are 64-bits wide, and GDDR5 transfers a minimum of an 8-bit burst, so AMD GPUs transfer a minimum of 64 bytes of data to RAM at a time. In addition, if the GPU kernel writes less than 64 contiguous bytes at a time, the memory controller will read 64 bytes, modify some of the bytes, and then write 64 back to RAM.
This is actually incorrect. The GDDR4-5 channels are 32 bits wide, so the data granularity is 32 bytes. However, cache lines are 64 bytes long, so in practice you often have 2 consecutive bursts, hence 64 bytes read or written.
And for HBM memory (R9 Nano & R9 Fury) the channels are 128 bits wide, however the burst length is reduced to 2, maintaining the same granularity of 32 bytes.