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GDDR5 Speculators Thread

Big.Wayne

Big.Wayne

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Ok lads, I want you to draw upon your years of Graphic-Tech-Trading and hear your predictions about the value of GDDR5?

Will it rise or fall in value in the coming months?

Any thoughts to do with GDDR5 welcomed, like will nVidia incorporate it into one of their upcoming products?

Is it really a wonder product with no downside?

Can it be manufactured in enough quantity to meet demand etc?

Over to you! :cool:
 
Big.Wayne said:
Will it rise or fall in value in the coming months?
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I don't think it'll change, especially if nVidia adopt it. I think the makers have got it pretty spot on with the adoption rate, and ATi were able to make plenty of GDDR5 cards available on release, at a not-too-silly price.

Any thoughts to do with GDDR5 welcomed, like will nVidia incorporate it into one of their upcoming products?
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I think they will have to, just to stay competitive. GDDR3 is reaching it's peak.

Is it really a wonder product with no downside?
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Not sure. It certainly looks that way!

Can it be manufactured in enough quantity to meet demand etc?
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Yes, I think the ATi launch showed that. I reckon they'll wait a bit before adopting it across their entire range though. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a "GTX290" 45 or 55nm version of the GTX280 with GDDR5 before the year's out.
 
As above, I think it will be used on the flag ship models first for now and if price falls they would roll it out on the following entire range. GDDR5 offers double the bandwidth of GDDR3.

Also worth noting the future potential of GDDR5

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GDDR5 allows for double the bandwidth, and the Radeon HD 4870 is already running the modules at 3.6GHz, which apparently is very conservative frequency for GDDR5. GDDR5 technology has the potential to scale much higher. Think 7GHz. No joke. It will be a while before it hits those speeds, but we should see common frequencies of 4-5GHz in the very near future.
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ok i break u a secret i work as a stock broker yes i know im half of the time drunk , BUT ATI pwns ass of nvidia badly, ATI stock is just rising
 
GDDR5, unlike GDDR4 actually does have some cost saving measures, such as the ability to use a simplified PCB due to trace lengths or something (not entirely sure on the specifics of that one). Whilst it may not be seen in a lot of products today, it will, like every other truly successful memory product, become very widely available.

I predict that not-too-far-into-the-future mainstream cards like the Radeon 5650/70 will probably be using GDDR5.
 
Graphics, presumably. I think it's the first 'D' that needs questioning now that it appears to be quad data rate.
 
When in doubt ask! :)

I kinda thought it was graphics but the whole thing doesn't make much sense

Graphics Double Data Rate 5

So it should be GQDR5 now! ;)
 
Yeah, since there's no other QDR memory designed for graphics cards... I guess they went with GDDR5 since it sounds better and reads better than GQDR.
 
Well no, because data can still only be written or read twice per clock cycle. The extra bandwidth is found from other means.

For it to be QDR, it would need to be able to read/write four times per clock cycle, which none of the types of GDDR do.
 
Haha I can almost hear Will Hubs brain going into overdrive working this new memory out! :p

Don't worry mate the penny hasn't dropped for me either! :o

I'm good up to DDR2 then it all goes fuzzy! :D
 
It's similar to having dual channel RAM on the same chip I think, so you're accessing 2 x 2 per clock, instead of 4 per clock.
 
I wonder when gpus will migrate to XDR?

probably not for a long, long time. 1tb/sec would be sweet though
 
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