Samsung announces world's fastest memory: GDDR5
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Dec 3rd 2007 2:05AM
posted Dec 3rd 2007 2:05AM
[via DigiTimes]
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"The chips have been already been delivered in samples to the likes of NVIDIA and ATI with mass production expected in the first half of 2007."
Might want to recheck the date on that...
No... that's how FAST it is!!!!
yup, it is so fast that it turns the world backwards and makes it December 2006.
When we get this RAM up to 88 miles per hour... you're going to see some serious S*%T!
haha
Fixed to say 2010 now...
The Xbox 360 also uses 512MB GDDR3
" ...production expected in the first half of 2007 "
i know you guys didn't get paid enough but, come on
I cant wait to see some benchmarks. This is awsome, I hope its on the new nVidia 9xxx series. :)
don't you mean first half of 2008?
no, this year is only 2006 part 2.
Can it play Doom? ROFL
Screw doom! Can it play nethack?
Can it play Crysis...at 30 fps?
It's official. The PS4 and xbox720 will either be using this or GDDR6 memory...
Huh? aren't we in the end of 2007?
I was gunna say the same thing!
Comeon guys, grow up. ENGADGET IS HUMAN @ 2 in the morning.
Why is it that even though the first, second, third, etc. person comments on the date mistake, every after STILL makes the exact same comment! You're not even making the comment humorous like the first few.
Who works days and nights and doesn't get a date wrong?
maybe its 2009 there, but they're just playing with our minds with an evil plan to dominate the world. take that, mister world domination blog editor. woof woof
OMG EVERYONE SAW THE 2007 MISTAKE I BETTER NOT BE IMMATURE AND POST ABOUT IT LOL0OLOLOLOLOL0O0O0OL0O0O!!!!
oh, they fixed the date!
Don't like to be picky, but PS3 has 256GDDR3 and 256Mb of very fast XDR memory. Your usual sloppy reporting missed that.
They didn't miss anything. Their story is correct as stated. The PS3 contains GDDR3 memory and Samsungs new GDDR5 memory is 50% faster.
Apparently my reading is poor as well. Make that 4x faster.
XDR actually isn't that fast, Rambus just publishes it's performance numbers based on the combination of all the chips lanes, whereas GDDR speeds are based per pin meaning GDDR5 is much faster than XDR when taken as a whole package. Also gb2/SonyDefenceForce just because Engadget compared the ram to the PS3's GDDR dosn't mean they were attacking the PS3.
@ Carl
XDR is faster then GDDR5 depending on the speed. XDR has improved in speed since its introduction in the PS3.
Samsung also produces XDR memory for Rambus; here is a very detailed comparison measured by multiple parameters from Samsung themselves (which also produce this GDDR5)
http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/products/dram/Products_XDRDRAM.html
and just because Engadget says something doesn't make it true....
ok, in some cases it might but not everyone is perfect!
"The chips have -been- already -been- delivered"?
Mistake numero duo.
GDDR5 is Borg technology. Beware.
but Qimonda sampled out GDDR5 chips more than a month ago. Samsung is playing catch-up.
i figured engadget would actually check the sources of a story, i guess i was wrong.
Qimonda's GDDR5 announement was 5Gbps, Samsung's is 6Gbps.
Thomas
Didn't Qimonda (Dresden, Germany) announce their GDDR5 memory shipments (actual shipments) a few months ago (with similar speeds)?
Samsung's not the first....(again).
They skipped 4 and went right to 5? Awesome.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33930
They did? : http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Description=GDDR4&x=0&y=0
I almost pee'd my pants laughing at that!
Yeah turns out my reading comprehension skills are not so good. But I'll take any excuse to read that brilliant piece of satire.
I wish companies would fall under Murphys law and quit creating stuff faster than we can make money to buy it. instead of developing in baby steps, they should develop in large steps and thereby eliminate alot of the incremental stuff that falls through the cracks.
Damn. Does this mean 2 ghz ram??? Or is 2 ghz already available??? If so, does this mean 20 ghz ram??? If so, I, for one, welcome......nevermind.
(Replying to myself here)
I read a bit of the Qimonda White Paper. Very interesting. Looks like 2.5 ghz will the top-end. Crazy. Also, now that I think about, doesn't GDDR4 get over 2 ghz? I think so. At any rate, VOC'ers rejoice.
nice!