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Abdul Raauf
How old is your graphics card? If you have one with GDDR2 memory, than I am sorry to say it, but you already have a vintage piece of hardware inside your computer! Anyway, it is interesting to notice that, while most graphics cards on the market feature GDDR3 memory, the performance war may skip GDDR4 and move right to GDDR5, a faster memory that started being mass produced these days...
Announced back in late 2005 by Samsung, GDDR4 memory was only used for a few video cards, such as Radeon X1950 XTX, as well as some of the Radeon HD 2900 XT and 2600 XT cards from ATI, and while there were rumors about NVIDIA using this memory for its GeForce 8-series GPUs, this didn't happen.
Now, Qimonda, formerly a division of Infineon Memory Products, decided to skip developing GDDR4 memory, and announced volume production of 512 MB GDDR5 modules at the impressive 3.6 GHz, 4.0 GHz, and 4.5 GHz clock speeds.
Here's what they have to say about it: "Qimonda was the first to announce samples of GDDR5 back in November 2007. We have proven the technology and we can deliver in volume production to the market today. If you look at the best performing GDDR3 parts today, they are running at about 2Gbit/s. With our GDDR5 we are able to at least double this data rate. We believe that Qimonda offers the highest performing graphics memory. There is a price/performance curve, and we are well-positioned to accommodate market demand as adoption increases."
At last, I ask myself when will we get to see video cards really able to use the insane amount of memory bandwidth provided by the GDDR5 memory, considering the fact that fast GDDR5 could surpass the 200GB/s barrier!
Announced back in late 2005 by Samsung, GDDR4 memory was only used for a few video cards, such as Radeon X1950 XTX, as well as some of the Radeon HD 2900 XT and 2600 XT cards from ATI, and while there were rumors about NVIDIA using this memory for its GeForce 8-series GPUs, this didn't happen.
Now, Qimonda, formerly a division of Infineon Memory Products, decided to skip developing GDDR4 memory, and announced volume production of 512 MB GDDR5 modules at the impressive 3.6 GHz, 4.0 GHz, and 4.5 GHz clock speeds.
Here's what they have to say about it: "Qimonda was the first to announce samples of GDDR5 back in November 2007. We have proven the technology and we can deliver in volume production to the market today. If you look at the best performing GDDR3 parts today, they are running at about 2Gbit/s. With our GDDR5 we are able to at least double this data rate. We believe that Qimonda offers the highest performing graphics memory. There is a price/performance curve, and we are well-positioned to accommodate market demand as adoption increases."
At last, I ask myself when will we get to see video cards really able to use the insane amount of memory bandwidth provided by the GDDR5 memory, considering the fact that fast GDDR5 could surpass the 200GB/s barrier!
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