Monday, October 23rd 2006
Intel Talks about DDR3
Charles Chang, Intel's supplier Manager, said during IDF Fall 06 that the company has received DDR3 samples from different manufacturers, and they are working fine on Intel Bearlake based platform. DDR3 is scheduled for mass production in Q107. However, Chalres Chang said the company estimates that DDR3 would become main technology in 2009. According to information from Samsung Electronics Corporation, DDR3 is going to be 25% faster than DDR2 modules. DDR3 will also double the bandwidth over DDR2.
Source:
HKEPC
20 Comments on Intel Talks about DDR3
However, a 25% speed increase in performance with a 100% clock speed isnt exactly impressive. :banghead:
Better than DDR2 atleast. DDR3 is what DDR2 should have been. :toast:
Anyone wanna loan me a core 2 duo to give it a shot? :D
even right now we only really need ddr667 or ddr800 if u were conroe.
ddr3 will have much more than a 25% improvement over ddr2 for one thing it hase double the bandwidth as well as it being quad channeled.
I mean hello have you paid any attention to the memory modules on your gpus? or have you all been twidling your thumbs?
ddr4 hasn't even been released for gpu's yet and with all memory it has to first pass through the gpu sector before hitting the system mem sector.
overall ddr3 will be leaps and bounds ahead of ddr2, as ddr2 clock for clock still can't match ddr performance (take a 533 MHZ 1gb set of ddr2 and compare it to a 533 pair of ddr the ddr will win every time and not just bya ltille by up to 20%) lol
ddr2 was short lived in the gpu world due to it's low performance per clock (only 2 ati cards used it actually 9800 pro 256 and the 9800xt) one ddr3 came out, they found they didn't have to sacrifice performance to keep up with the markets clock speed demands.
once ddr3 is out I'll definetly be buying a set and probably a quad core amd as well.
Performance is obviously struggling... either due to latency, or the CPU's just cant show any differences.
Don't just read the article, read between the marketing FUD. QFT.
Benches:
www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=2810
www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=2813
www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=2814
Higher frequency = CL5, it's not basic DDR2 though.