AMD to use GDDR5

Calibretto

Calibretto

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Maximum PC said:
AMD's upcoming Radeon R700 graphics processors will ship with GDDR5 memory from Qimonda, the companies said yesterday. GDDR5 not only offers much higher data rates than existing GDDR3 and GDDR4, but also consumes less power. It remains unclear exactly when R700 parts will start shipping, but Qimonda said its GDDR5 chips are being produced in volume and have already started shipping to AMD.
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So when will it stop? GDDR10? GDDR50? lol
 
it will stop when these types of chips in general are no longer useful. at least thats what i think.

but its pretty crazy that they are acting like ddr5 is no big deal on a video card, hell my 8800GT uses simple ddr3, my ram is ddr2!
 
It will stop when AMD realises that having better memory doesn't bring you the best card xD
 
Timo said:
It will stop when AMD realises that having better memory doesn't bring you the best card xD
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depends tbh... I find the 3870 to be the superior card over the 8800's simply because they use MUCH less power in the long run (on idle in windows for example) and 'better' memory certainly helps with that.




"Look, we can make faster cards! well, granted, you need an own power plant to be able to run it, but thats not the point, its slightly faster!" I mean, cmon, that cant be the right way... :rolleyes:
 
lovely? said:
it will stop when these types of chips in general are no longer useful. at least thats what i think.

but its pretty crazy that they are acting like ddr5 is no big deal on a video card, hell my 8800GT uses simple ddr3, my ram is ddr2!
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I'm really interested in what you mean by these types of chips stopping to be useful, do you mean apps will reach the limit of there completion or when there a complete architecture revamp and where all running are comps on organic matter?

thats amazing though it seems like we've barely adopted gddr4
 
Archangel said:
depends tbh... I find the 3870 to be the superior card over the 8800's simply because they use MUCH less power in the long run (on idle in windows for example) and 'better' memory certainly helps with that.




"Look, we can make faster cards! well, granted, you need an own power plant to be able to run it, but thats not the point, its slightly faster!" I mean, cmon, that cant be the right way... :rolleyes:
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Nevakonaza said:
uhh?

the max power draw for the 8800GT and 3870 are both 105W according to GPU REVIEW :)

http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=544&card2=547#
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That about says it ?

The 3870 is NOT a better card then the 8800GT. So even if it uses a bit more power, I'd be willing to take it anyway... For better specs you need more power that's the same with ATI and nVidia.

And the 8800GTX uses a lot of power... But it performs almost as good as the 3870X2... While it uses much less power... And two 8800GTX's would blast one 3870X2. But they'd use more power... But I reckon the performance gain over the 3870X2 is more then the power increase...

(though I might be wrong there)
 
Archangel said:
depends tbh... I find the 3870 to be the superior card over the 8800's simply because they use MUCH less power in the long run (on idle in windows for example) and 'better' memory certainly helps with that.




"Look, we can make faster cards! well, granted, you need an own power plant to be able to run it, but thats not the point, its slightly faster!" I mean, cmon, that cant be the right way... :rolleyes:
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i dont think the 3870 is better than the 8800GT in any way
 
Funny how AMD first released the GDDR4 before and now GDDR5. The real issue is, they should start developing a better GPU. That's what Nvidia is doing and it seems to me, it's doing great for them.
 
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