AMD’s new chips might have a slower video RAM than Nvidia
Published in News


But that might not be a bad thing

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn claiming that AMD’s coming chips might ship with a slower video RAM than its Nvidia equivalents.

SK Hynix GDDR5 8Gbit coming in 2H 2016
Published in Graphics
Friday, 15 April 2016 11:06

SK Hynix GDDR5 8Gbit coming in 2H 2016


Samsung already has mass production

Chaps from the memory manufacturers that like to talk to Fudzilla have confirmed that 8Gbit GDDR5 memory will hit volume production in the second half of 2016.

HBM 2.0 GPUs unlikely for 2016 GPUs
Published in Graphics
Friday, 15 April 2016 11:00

HBM 2.0 GPUs unlikely for 2016 GPUs


Too expensive, limited supply

Our well-placed industry sources have told us that we should not expect to see the HBM 2.0 based GPUs shipping anytime soon. Nvidia Pascal and AMD Polaris 10 / 11 will stick with GDDR5 memory for the time being.

GDDR5, GDDR6 rule 2016 GPUs
Published in Graphics
Thursday, 10 December 2015 12:28

GDDR5, GDDR6 rule 2016 GPUs


Exclusive: Highest end are HBM 2.0, GDDR6, GDDR5X

AMD over-hyped the new  High Bandwidth Memory standard and now the second generation HBM 2.0 is coming in 2016. However it looks like most of GPUs shipped in this year will still rely on the older GDDR5.

Samsung starts mass producing 8 Gb GDDR5
Published in Graphics
Friday, 16 January 2015 10:13

Samsung starts mass producing 8 Gb GDDR5


16GB+ graphic cards possible 


Samsung has announced that is has started the mass production of its 8 Gb GDDR5 chips in 20nm.

Friday, 01 November 2013 09:50

No GDDR5 support on Kaveri

DDR3 only, no surprise

Wednesday, 13 October 2010 16:52

Radeon HD 6870 officially at 900MHz

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1050MHz GDDR5 memory
Monday, 12 July 2010 11:46

Gainward launches three GTX 460 cards

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Tops with Golden Sample Goes Like Hell card
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GTX 465 and GTX 470
Thursday, 24 June 2010 12:24

Sapphire shows its Ultimate HD 5670

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Passive cooling