Nvidia and ATI have received GDDR5 shipments.

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 11:55:23 Mon, December 03, 2007

DigiTimes would like you to know that Samsung has recently delivered the first uberfast GDDR5 samples to "major graphic processor companies last month" and that "mass production is expected in the first half of 2008". DigiTimes says that GDDR5 can trasfer data at 6 gigabits per second and that a 512MB chip can move images at 24 gigabytes per second. Apparently 1.2GHz GDDR3 has a bandwidth of 9.6 gigabytes per second.

17 Comments

Monday, December 03, 2007 12:52:22 PM

anonymousD
n00b

back to 'higher latencies, need more speed to beat the 'old' chips' :D

Monday, December 03, 2007 1:48:30 PM

anonymousP
guest

First half of 2007?

*wonders at what point he had time traveled*

Monday, December 03, 2007 1:55:05 PM

Mohammadov
guest

Wow,amazing news..

Monday, December 03, 2007 2:03:56 PM

God that movie sucked!
guest

But what major improvement will it have over current gddr3 and 4 at the same speed?

Monday, December 03, 2007 6:48:21 PM

Mach5Motorsport
guest

I'm having a hard time reading the article. that poster is disturbing.

Monday, December 03, 2007 8:19:03 PM

z
guest

Just seems odd to me that gddr4 has not even been widely implemented, and there is already a gddr5. What gives?

Monday, December 03, 2007 8:20:49 PM

anonymousD
n00b

well them ore gens they make the cooler and less electricity its supposed to run..on. at same speed u wont see an increase, prolly a decrease in performance.

Tuesday, December 04, 2007 5:51:39 AM

On what bus...
guest

...exactly?

Tuesday, December 04, 2007 12:44:51 PM

Sunny
guest

This is good news but most cards now are using GDDR3. The only cards really using GDDR4 is ATI but even that doesn't really help them out performance wise. While it is nice it was invented lets see a card that benefits from using it.

Tuesday, December 04, 2007 8:18:04 PM

anonymous
guest

Perfect example is the HD2600XT GDDR3 and GDDR4. The GDDR4 is clocked a LOT higher than the GDDR3...but you really dont see that much of a performance increase. Although, thats probably because its bottlenecked by the 128-bit bus.

Wednesday, December 05, 2007 1:50:24 AM

anonymous
guest

I want GDDR5 for the 9800

Wednesday, December 05, 2007 1:10:36 PM

NotMe
guest

I want 9800 GDDR5 for Christmas !

Wednesday, December 05, 2007 1:29:27 PM

anonymous
guest

I want GDDR6 ;-P

Thursday, December 06, 2007 12:45:22 PM

anonymousD
n00b

its funny how numbers on paper sell stuff :D

Thursday, December 06, 2007 9:59:57 PM

anonymous
guest

I want a 8300gs with 2gig gddr5!

Friday, December 07, 2007 2:49:24 AM

anonymous
guest

wat the hell has that movie got to do with the release of GDDR5??!!

Friday, December 07, 2007 9:07:33 AM

Steve
The Progenitor

@anonymous I am glad you asked! The movie is Police Academy 5 which is the 5th Police Academy movie. The story is about GDDR5 which is the 5th GDDR. Yep, just the number 5. That is all they have in common.

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