Monday, December 3rd 2007
Samsung Develops GDDR5 Memory at 6Gbps
Samsung Electronics has announced that it has developed the world's fastest memory, a GDDR5 (series five, graphics double-data-rate memory) chip that can transfer data at six gigabits per second (Gbps). Samsung's GDDR5, which will be introduced at a density of 512 Mb (16Mb x 32) chips, is capable of transmitting moving images and associated data at 24 gigabytes per second (GBps). The new Samsung graphics memory operates at 1.5 volts, representing an approximate 20% improvement in power consumption over today's most popular graphics chip, the GDDR3. Samples of Samsung's new GDDR5 chip have been delivered to major graphic processor companies last month and mass production is expected in the first half of 2008. Samsung expects that GDDR5 memory chips will become standard in the top performing segment of the market by capturing more than 50% of the high-end PC graphics market by 2010.
Source:
DigiTimes
30 Comments on Samsung Develops GDDR5 Memory at 6Gbps
I guarantee those are infact DDR2, not GDDR2.
Lemme dig up a review of HD2600Pro where the chips are visible...
BRB.
edit:
www.digital-daily.com/video/asus_hd2600pro_ddr2/
->
www.3dnews.ru/_imgdata/img/2007/09/18/60094.jpg
->
www.qimonda.com/graphics-ram/gddr2/index.html
(I must admit I was quite surprised to see the page is labed as "GDDR2", BUT let's go deeper...)
->
datasheet for "HYB18T256161BF":
www.qimonda.com/download.jsp?ref=/qis_docs/Datasheets/Datasheets%20Graphics/HYB18T256161BF_rev120_www.pdf
-> HYB18T256161BF = normal, plain-Jane wide-bit DDR2, not actual GDDR2
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Hell, I've got one of the last run X700 PROs where they went back and slapped 256MB of GDDR3 on 'em . . . never mind slow clocked GPU's - ATI's card architecture tends to lend itself well to odd memory combinations