Micron Announces 16 Gbps Memory Speeds Achieved Over GDDR5X

[Raevenlord]

Micron, who has been at the forefront in graphics memory production, has recently announced in a blog post their commitment to achieving ever increasing speeds and performance gains with their products (which isn't all that uncommon.) What this announcement has that better carves it as different and newsworthy, though, is that the company has seemingly achieved 16 Gbps speeds on GDDR5X memory - which up to now, ticked at up to 12Gbps. Some NVIDIA cards you probably know about actually had their GDDR5X memory clocked up to 12.4 Gbps.

The new achievements under GDDR5X will aid the company in better executing their vision for GDDR6 and its speed goals. Micron expects to have functional silicon of their G6 program very soon, being confident they can push products to market on early 2018. GDDR6 will bring some specific differences in regards to GDDR5X, such as dual-channel memory (GDDR5X is single-channel) and the introduction of a FBGA180 ball package with increased pitch, to accommodate these fundamental differences.



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[cdawall]

Updated 1080Ti please?

 

[Chaitanya]

Updated 1080Ti please?

These new RAM chips are still quite sometime out, so lets wait maybe we will see new GPUs from both AMD and nVidia ones these are in production.

 

[Franzen4Real]

Updated 1080Ti please?

Updated Vega please?

HBM in the consumer sector increasingly looks like a shiny object to stick on a marketing slide. I'll gladly take lower cost/higher availability with a matte finish.

On a GDDR6 note, the switch to dual channel seems interesting. That alone should make a big difference.

 

[cdawall]

Updated Vega please?

HBM in the consumer sector increasingly looks like a shiny object to stick on a marketing slide. I'll gladly take lower cost/higher availability with a matte finish.

On a GDDR6 note, I found the dual channel interesting That alone should make a big difference.

Vega is vaporware

 

[Franzen4Real]

Vega is vaporware

Vega is the reason I own a 1080, and could quite possibly be the reason I will own an 1180. What we need is some Condensation-ware so that I can have a choice again.

 

[Chaitanya]

Vega is vaporware

Problem is not Vega ,HBM2 thats the real problem. even Nvidia is struggling to deliver Teslas running on HBM2 in time. This is a chip from test labs more than a year back.

 

[64K]

What we need is some Condensation-ware so that I can have a choice again.

I would thank you twice for that if I could.
Well said sir.

 

[JalleR]

Remember RDRAM..???? high bandwith memory and high cost

 

[ZoneDymo]

time to upgrade dat nvidia gear

 

[efikkan]

Updated Vega please?

HBM in the consumer sector increasingly looks like a shiny object to stick on a marketing slide. I'll gladly take lower cost/higher availability with a matte finish.

On a GDDR6 note, the switch to dual channel seems interesting. That alone should make a big difference.

AMD has made the same mistake for two generations now, let's hope they stick to GDDR for the next chips.

 

[Zubasa]

AMD has made the same mistake for two generations now, let's hope they stick to GDDR for the next chips.

Whats worse is HBM is a big reason why AMD cannot even make a cheaper version or rebrand of the Fury X to at least have something to hold them over.