Samsung announced today the industry’s first 24Gbps GDDR6 RAM, which will power the next generation of Nvidia and AMD graphics cards, as well as laptops, game consoles, and AI accelerators for data centers.
The Korean tech behemoth has already begun sampling the new memory chips with a capacity of 16GB, and its customers will begin verification tests later this month.
Furthermore, commercial availability will be timed to coincide with upcoming GPU launches, so we won’t have to wait long to see 24Gbps GDDR6 in shipping products.
One of the most obvious advantages of this new GDDR6 module is that it can deliver 30% faster speeds than Samsung’s previous 18Gbps module.
In other words, a fully loaded premium graphics card will have a memory bandwidth of up to 1.1 Tbps, which is the equivalent of transferring 275 1080p movies in one second.
Unlike GDDR6X, which was developed by Micron in collaboration with Nvidia, Samsung’s new GDDR6 DRAM is fully JEDEC compliant. It is also expected to consume less power due to the use of high-k metal gate technology.
That means it will run cooler than GDDR6X while providing better performance and being less expensive to produce.
In terms of manufacturing, Samsung is using a 10nm (1z) process node to produce the new GDDR6 lineup. While the new technology is primarily aimed at GPUs and AI accelerators, the company will also produce 20Gbps and 16Gbps variants for low power applications.
To that end, Samsung employs dynamic voltage switching technology that can adjust between 1.1V and 1.35V to achieve 20% more power efficiency where it is required.
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