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Should the type of memory be printed on the card box

If this happened there would be two pricing structures. I.e. they would charge us more for the same card with the Samsung memory as opposed to the Elpida.

That wouldn’t be cool!
 
Kaapstad said:
The reason I ask this is you can get Samsung, Hynix or Elpida memory all of which have different timings meaning that you can get different performance from your new card.
You could be basing your buying decision on a review where the card had Samsung and when you install your new card you find out it has Elpida, this can not be right and I think it is a reasonable argument for the buyer being misled.

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I completely agree with you. Funny how they all send out review samples with the best memory isn't it.
 
Kaapstad said:
When you buy a new graphics card should the type of VRAM be marked on the box.

The reason I ask this is you can get Samsung, Hynix or Elpida memory all of which have different timings meaning that you can get different performance from your new card.

I think manufacturers should mark the type of memory on the box as to fail to do this means you can not make an informed purchase. You are also paying the same price for the best memory as the worst which also can not be right.

You could be basing your buying decision on a review where the card had Samsung and when you install your new card you find out it has Elpida, this can not be right and I think it is a reasonable argument for the buyer being misled.

What do you think ?
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There's a lot of things that "should" be printed on boxes of hardware, like monitors should have input lag time listed.

Doubt they would go far with this, they would rather customers blindly buy what they think is good.. otherwise quite a lot of products would be avoided.
 
Yeah but hopefully there won't be an extra premium to pay, but let's face it there will be an extra premium to pay :D.


I never realised my GTX 780's used samsung memory until i noticed it in HWiNFO64 it says - GK110-300 3072 MBytes of GDDR5 SDRAM [Samsung], if that is correct?.
 
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This is a weird one because if the card runs at the specs it is meant to then memory makes doesn't matter, however if overclocking it can so maybe some vendors could make their cards worth more by only using Samsung/Hynix memory and stating so on their products.
 
well one example if you look at what kingston did with the ssd's there needs to be updated laws on this stuff, by law i guess they would need to display more specs and have to stick to them, does seem like they can get away with a lot crazy, its basically bait and switch!
 
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