Tuesday, March 26th 2024
Product Pages of Samsung 28 Gbps and 32 Gbps GDDR7 Chips Go Live
Samsung is ready with a GDDR7 memory chip rated at an oddly-specific 28 Gbps. This speed aligns with the reported default memory speeds of next-generation NVIDIA GeForce RTX "Blackwell" GPUs. The Samsung GDDR7 memory chip bearing model number K4VAF325ZC-SC28, pictured below, ticks at 3500 MHz, yielding 28 Gbps (GDDR7-effective) memory speeds, and comes with a density of 16 Gbit (2 GB). This isn't Samsung's only GDDR7 chip at launch, the company also has a 32 Gbps high performance part that it built in hopes that certain high-end SKUs or professional graphics cards may implement it. The 32 Gbps GDDR7 chip, bearing the chip model number K4VAF325ZC-SC32, offers the same 16 Gbit density, but at a higher 4000 MHz clock. The Samsung website part-identification pages for both chips say that the parts are sampling to customers, which is usually just before it enters mass-production, and is marked "shipping."
Sources:
Tom's Hardware, harukaze5719 (Twitter)
4 Comments on Product Pages of Samsung 28 Gbps and 32 Gbps GDDR7 Chips Go Live
But, for the AI content that did fit into 24, the memory bandwidth itself is the benefit. Excited to see what the first GDDR7 GPUs bring to the table either way.