Samsung has introduced (opens in new tab) the {industry}’s first 24Gbps GDDR6 reminiscence. It’s manufacturing prepared and in a position for use with subsequent technology excessive finish graphics playing cards in addition to recreation consoles and enterprise merchandise. Samsung says its 24Gbps reminiscence delivers a 30% velocity enchancment over its 18Gbps GDDR6.
24Gbps reminiscence mixed with a 384-bit bus would ship properly over 1TB of bandwidth per second. Samsung used a quaint instance of having the ability switch 275 1080p motion pictures in a single second.
Daniel Lee, govt vice chairman of the reminiscence product planning workforce at Samsung Electronics stated: “With our industry-first 24Gbps GDDR6 now sampling, we sit up for validating the graphics DRAM on next-generation GPU platforms to carry it to market in time to fulfill an onslaught of recent demand.”
GDDR6 is extremely scalable, and can be utilized within the quickest high-end playing cards, all the way in which all the way down to energy environment friendly laptops, in contrast to the (as of now) completely excessive finish GDDR6X.
The brand new reminiscence is quicker than the 21Gbps GDDR6X reminiscence of the RTX 3090 Ti (opens in new tab), that means Nvidia may select to make use of the extra environment friendly and JEDEC accredited GDDR6 reminiscence over GDDR6X, which Nvidia developed in collaboration with Micron. This might result in simplified designs and cooler working temperatures, which could be a drawback with GDDR6X.
The truth that Samsung is asserting this now signifies that AMD or Nvidia or each shall be utilizing 24Gbps reminiscence with their subsequent technology playing cards. Although as with something shiny and new and quick, it is going to be costly and nearly actually restricted to the flagship elements. Mid-range playing cards will follow 16 to 18Gbps class reminiscence, whereas playing cards instantly beneath the flagships could embrace 21Gbps reminiscence.
Quicker reminiscence alleviates the necessity to embrace very broad reminiscence buses. We noticed playing cards with 512-bit buses and comparatively gradual GDDR3 properly over a decade in the past, but when GDDR6 (and future GDDR7 (opens in new tab)) continues to scale upwards in velocity, then the times of broad reminiscence buses on shopper GPUs are absolutely behind us.
What reminiscence will RTX 4090 (opens in new tab) or 7900XT (opens in new tab) class playing cards embrace? Will Nvidia use GDDR6 or GDDR6X? Is Micron planning one thing even quicker? All shall be revealed within the months to come back as Nvidia and AMD gear as much as announce their next-generation graphics playing cards later this 12 months.
