GDDR6 Memory Being Developed by Micron, Coming to Mid-End Graphic Cards in 2020 - Alleges Report [Updated] - cherrydented77

Update: Micron contacted us shortly after this article was publicized and has debunked the GDDR6 story. Looks look-alike Fudzilla got this cardinal wrong. The company is only when working on GDDR5X which is intended to render significant performance improvements to designs that are presently using GDDR5, therefore giving system designers the option of delivering enhanced carrying out without dramatically altering current architectures.

The next coevals of graphic cards will be getting a big boost in raw processing power thanks to the jump to FinFET engineering. Nevertheless, as any enthusiast knows, memory and bandwidth hindquarters quickly become a very unwanted bottleneck. To solve this problem, AMD and JEDEC introduced HBM 1.0 to the market this class and the a lot more flexible HBM 2.0 regular is expected to debut next year in flagship products. But what almost the middle end lineup? The answer to that (according to an exclusive story by Fudzilla), is an upcoming GDDR6 standard.

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GDDR6 memory allegedly landing place in 2020, developed past Micron

Now Here is the thing, reports of the upcoming GDDR6 standard have been present as far back as 2020 (example from VR Geographical zone here). At that place are also a few oddities in what Fudzilla is reporting, which I would like to point out here for clarity's interest. Firstly, the source is attributing the GDDR6 normal to Micron, while in actuality GDDR is a JEDEC standard and atomic number 102 such substantiation for GDDR6 presently exists. This new first likewise seems slightly perplexing, because Micron is already temporary on a JEDEC approved GDDR5X standard which will put up around 2x the bandwidth of GDDR5.

GDDR5X is based on the GDDR5 standard and chiefly doubles the prefetch of the standard while preserving "nigh of the command protocols of GDDR5". What that agency is that spell the bandwidth has been doubled, information technology is not, strictly speaking an improvement of the GDDR5 standard, rather a new branch of the same and arguably a completely new applied science (contrary to what the 'GDDR'X name might indicate). One of the examples disposed is DDR3 to DDR4, which also happens to glucinium a good approximate analogy to think of the GDDR5 to GDDR5X jump. Regrettably, we suffice non, at this point know what difference, if any, there is between GDDR6 and GDDR5X. Micron GDDR5X Memory Standard

The source cited "internal sources" for the exclusive report, so information technology is possible that GDDR6 is actually GDDR5X rebranded (since the arrive from the said company). It is also possible (non equiprobable!) that Micron is operative happening two other standard, in collaboration with JEDEC, namely GDDR5X and GDDR6 but that seems unlikely to me. At any rate, GDDR5 has evolved from its 60nm debut in 2007 to a such more sleek and efficient 20nm version in 2020. I wouldn't be surprised if JEDEC at long last distinct to define the GDDR6 standard at the 20nm summons in 2020. This transition to a lower node allows such high clocks and low operational voltages – something that was not likely in the early days of the standard.

In any case, the habit of GDDR5X or GDDR6 remains a question in probability. The simple fact of matter is that most middle order graphic cards ut not need more bandwidth than what the advanced form of GDDR5 can already allow for. And since all solicitous parties have already achieved economies of scale with GDDR5 there would be identical little reason to transmutation to a brand new standard such every bit GDDR5X/GDDR6 since HBM 2.0 will more than supply for the high end stuff, where bandwidth can cursorily become an actual issue.

That said, high bandwidth computer storage in economical packaging (as low as 2GB HBM) bequeath also be arriving by 2020. Companies like SK Hynix have been getting all over their initial learning curve and yields are getting much mature past the calendar month. Soon enough, we will be competent to get the low stop HBM (computer memory) in mobile devices much as laptops where the energy efficiency of the standard will live able to do wonders. Soh even in the centre order, the decision of companies shifting to GDDR5X/GDDR6 remains a dubious proposition at best.