GDDR5..

[Stevev]

Just came across this --> http://www.beyond3d.com/content/news/538 and thought some might find it interesting.

 

[milkinc13]

that's fast, 6GHz for RAM, no CPU can achieve that

 

[Marek]

i wonder when we break 10ghz

 

[Talrinys]

Sounds really good, memory is holding back the newest cards here, there needs to more of it, and quicker, imagine some of these crazy sticks paired up with a big old bus and 1GB of it, would be beautiful. No doubt what both Nvidia & ATI have in store for later this year, just wish they'd do it, Nvidia definitely was telling a lie when they announced they would release a new graphics card generation once a year.

 

[Minstadave]

that's fast, 6GHz for RAM, no CPU can achieve that

I've seen P4s running faster than 6ghz, the new Yorkfields are well into 5.5Ghz arena when pushed to the limit.

 

[Skeeter]

Its slighly less impressive when you look at the current link between DDR and GDDR...

Ive got DDR2 running at 800Mhz, and GDDR3 running at 2000Mhz.... so 2.5x the speed

6000Mhz GDDR5 would be comparible to RAM (DDR3/4 maybe) running at 2400Mhz... which isnt that far off.

So it looks like the way forward.

 

[ArcAneTSGK]

CPU can achive that if you push it, and have a good cooler and case to make sure it does not fry. Quad cores ive seen near 6GHz.

 

[Lightnix]

Memory and CPUs are two completely separate beasts.

We all know you can run a single transistor at speeds of 1THz+.

 

[theforce]

The price of those things will be quite high to allow Nvidia and ATI to use it in vast quantities on their currents. The majority of cards still use GDDR3 at the moment from what i am aware of so wouldn't the next logical thing for GDDR4 to become mainstream first and only then we shall see either ATI or Nvidia start using this in their flagship products?

 

[Hen_Dawg]

With this kind of bandwidth, we can expect to see GPUs with more than twice the overall performance of the current highest-end products within less than a year. After a slow year during which NVIDIA's G80 remained the world's fastest GPU, things look like they're about to heat up big time.

Liking the sound of that bit

 

[Stevev]

With this kind of bandwidth, we can expect to see GPUs with more than twice the overall performance of the current highest-end products within less than a year. After a slow year during which NVIDIA's G80 remained the world's fastest GPU, things look like they're about to heat up big time.

Liking the sound of that bit

Ditto , aslong as nVidia pull their fingers out like promised, to release a new gen card every year.

 

[psychas]

looks good me want

 

[IceShock]

If graphics cards double the performance with Gddr5, then i hope they bring out a GDDR5 - 3870X2

 

[Scougar]

...and I wonder what the timings will be?

Matthew

 

[Final8y]

If graphics cards double the performance with Gddr5, then i hope they bring out a GDDR5 - 3870X2

Not going to happen.
May get the R700 with DDR4 as standard & the high cost versions with DDR5.

 

[SBD]

Not going to happen.
May get the R700 with DDR4 as standard & the high cost versions with DDR5.

lets hope so cos they need to keep pushing cos we don't want there to be another 18 months like where the 8800GTX/Ultra is king

 

[YorkshirePadd26]

R800 will be GDDR5

 

[lazyvulture]

I just wish nVidia would start utilizing GDDR4.

They are behind ATi in that department.

 

[jaykay]

We don't really need that much bandwidth. ATI went from 512but bus to 256bit bus and didn't occur much of a performance hit.

 

[Lightnix]

They could easily bring out a graphics card twice as fast without GDDR5... Besides, having that type of memory doesn't mean it's twice as fast by default, that'd just be silly. The core has to be up to par and you can't get limited by processing power, PCI-E bandwidth, whatever.