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Samsung first to mass-produce GDDR6 memory for next-gen graphics cards

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Samsung first to mass-produce GDDR6 memory for next-gen graphics cards

By Matt Hanson

Samsung has beaten its rivals, SK Hynix and Micron, to become the first company to begin mass-producing GDDR6 memory chips – the extremely fast graphics memory that will power the next generation of graphics cards.

All three companies, which are big players in the memory market, have announced their plans to produce GDDR6 chips, but Samsung appears to be the first to begin mass-producing them.

In a press release provided by Samsung, the company claims the “new 16Gb GDDR6 offers twice the speed and density levels of currently available GDDR5 to address growing needs of advanced graphics market”.

With monitors coming out that support 8K resolutions, as well more graphically-demanding games and virtual reality applications pushing the limits of existing graphics cards, GDDR6 will be a welcome development, and it’s good to see memory makers working on it already.

Thanks for the memory

According to Samsung, the GDDR6 memory chips are fabricated on a 10nm process and run at 1.35V thanks to what Samsung calls an “an innovative, low-power circuit design”. It comes in a 16Gb density, double that of its 20nm 8Gb GDDR5 memory, which runs at 1.55V and is found in modern graphics cards.

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Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components

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