San Jose (CA) – Samsung claims it has developed the world’s fastest memory: The GDDR5 (series five, graphics double-data-rate memory) chip is capable of transferring data at a speed of 6 Gb/s.

Targeted for use in game consoles and graphics cards, the memory will scheduled to be released in the first half of 2008 in a 512 Mb (16 Mb x 32) configuration, which is promised to deliver an aggregate image data bandwidth of 24 GB/s. This number tops the specification of currently available 512 Mb 4.0 GHz XDR memory devices, which deliver a peak bandwidth of 16 GB/.

“We’re pushing image enhancement to a limit never before realized, enabling the smoothest, clearest animation that gamers have yet to experience,” said Mueez Deen, marketing director at Samsung Semiconductor, in a prepared statement. “[The memory] will enable the kind of graphics hardware performance that will spur software developers to deliver a new level of eye-popping games.”
 
The new GDDR5 memory will operate at 1.5 volts, translating into a 20% reduction in power consumption over today’s GDDR3 devices (when running at the same clock speed).

Samsung said samples of the new GDDR5 chip have been delivered to “major graphic processor companies” last month.

ok... but how about some prices!

Dec 03, 2007 14:10     

ok... but how about some prices! I am tired of these articles when they really dont end up leading to anything worth while. GDDR5 sounds great but I wonder how long it will take to be put on video card :)
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Ok,

Dec 03, 2007 14:27     

So what's the latency? ["This goes to eleven." -Rick]
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Samsung is amazing

Dec 03, 2007 19:28     

Only rumor I know, but if someone like Samsung buys the floundering AMD, and applies their marketing and tech, watch out Intel! That would be great for all us enthusiasts. GDDR5 is only a matter of time to be on a desktop. Tech is fun to follow.
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The rumors are killing me

Dec 04, 2007 16:45     

I see dates of early to mid 2008 for gpu's. But have read Nvidia new line may use 5 gb Gddr5.
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second manufacturer?

Dec 04, 2007 21:49     

is this the second manufacturer of Gddr5? and can someone explain if ddr3=gdd4 or gddr5? or are they unrelated and people more just say they are similar due to the generation that they are released?
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@skythra

Dec 05, 2007 13:50     

GDDR3, 4 and 5 are all different from each other, specifically how many bits can be addressed at a single time through a single pin. They're each developed by someone different, too; GDDR3 was done by ATI, I don't remember who did 4 and here we have 5. Ironically nVidia used GDDR3 before ATI did =P and they made it! This is exciting news though, maybe we'll see some 9000 series GeForce cards coming out with GDDR5, but that's to hoping. I wouldn't think they'd be released with GDDR5 so I'll hold off until I hear more.

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interesting

Dec 11, 2007 09:13     

this is good new indeed, as with all major hardware improvements. i still wonder if the next Nvidia generation will indeed be called 9xxx.. since that is the name of an old Ati generation, and we all know hardware companies do not like sounding behind their rivals (amd 3000 ?!? Xbox 360? what the..)
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