Samsung Releases Ultra-Fast GDDR4

SAMSUNG IS WELL ready for the upcoming war between Nvidia’s G80 refresh and ATI’s R600. The semiconductor division of this manufacturing giant announced that it has started mass production of 512Mbit (64MB) GDDR-4 SGRAM chips boasting a massive 1.4GHz working clock in DDR mode. The K4U52324QE-BC07 chips work at a 2.8GHz clock speed, which is astonishing and the amount of bandwidth both Nvidia and ATI can count on is mind-boggling.

The question remains, do these cards -need- this much memory bandwidth? Would we actually see a noticeable difference between 150GB/s and 180GB/s? Well, it sure wouldn’t hurt. All of that aside, simply having 1,400MHz memory chips on your GPU would certainly be brag-worthy.

Source: The Inquirer