AMD today said that its next graphics cards series will integrate GDDR5 memory. The higher data rates supported by GDDR5 – up to 5x that of GDDR3 and 4x that of GDDR4 – will enable more bandwidth over a narrower memory interface, which can translate into superior performance delivered from smaller, more cost-effective chips, AMD said.

According to AMD, GDDR5 technology also holds a number of benefits for stream processing in general purpose GPU applications. The increased bandwidth will “greatly benefit certain classes of stream computations” and new error detection mechanisms in GDDR5 can also help “increase the accuracy of calculations by indentifying errors and re-issuing commands to get valid data,” AMD said.  

You can read about AMD’s next-gen graphics cards in our detailed Radeon 4800 preview articles.

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May 21, 2008 12:24     

We've known this for several months now. How is this news?
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May 21, 2008 18:08     

I am so excited about this announcement in light of how much success GDDR4 brought AMD/ATI while poor old Nvidia shouldered on with loley GDDR3. I'm not bashing technological progress, just the poor application thereof.
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Re: excited

May 21, 2008 22:55     

I wouldn't really care what type of ram they put in, for all i care they could use GDDR7 or some BS, aslong as the benchmarks are good, like the 9800gx2 .. even thou its like 2 g92 chips or something like that it still performs better than any other card on the market so far. .. so benchmarks is what most ppl care about .. not the type of ram ..
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