Monday, March 26th 2007
Qimonda Skips GDDR4, Goes GDDR5
In order to outmaneuver its large competitor Samsung, memory chip vendor Qimonda plans to skip the GDDR4 graphics memory technology generation in favor of GDDR5. With the move, the company seeks to address the high end of the market. "While GDDR3 presently holds a share of about 90 percent of the high end PC graphics market, in 2011 the mainstream memory technology in this segment will be GDDR5 - not GDDR4...Most customers will move from GDDR3 directly to GDDR5." said Feurle. While GDDR4 offers several improvements in terms of performance and feature set over GDDR3, GDDR5 is intended to offer the missing low-power capability, along with tripling the performance of today's 800 MHz GDDR3 chips. In addition, it will offer features that enable more robust system designs, Feurle noted. The company presently is pressing ahead with the JEDEC standardization process and expects the standard to be finalized by summer 2007, with mass production scheduled for the first quarter of 2008.
Source:
EETimes
7 Comments on Qimonda Skips GDDR4, Goes GDDR5
btw timings 10-10-10-30 :laugh:
Or, for extreme high end GPU, you get a lot more throughput. Which means you can throw much larger textures around (nice candy) without a performance penalty.
I like it.
The lower power consumption is greatly needed. If we double the memory capacity... then we can keep power levels the same with ULV GDDR5. Or, same memory capacity, with lower power, means less heat, equals greater overclock potential.
I like it alot.