Micron has just announced that GDDR7 memory for graphics cards is closer than we thought. Will it make its way into upcoming GPUs?
Micron has just announced that some of the best graphics cards might soon receive a considerable boost — and this announcement couldn’t have come at a better time.
While GDDR6/GDDR6X are the current video memory standards in graphics cards, it’s time to move on — the tech has been around since 2018, which is a long time in the world of computer hardware. Micron has a fix in the form of GDDR7, and it talked about its plans during its recent earnings call. So far, it appears that everything is on track and GDDR7 memory will make it to the market in less than a year from now — but that doesn’t mean we’ll be seeing it in GPUs right away.
Wccftech reports that Micron is aiming for 36Gbps of bandwidth per pin, while the current maximum is around 22Gbps in Nvidia’s GDDR6X solutions, and 20Gbps for AMD’s GDDR6 options. Upgrading the bandwidth per pin will drastically boost the memory bandwidth for each GPU equipped with GDDR7. For instance, a budget card with a 128-bit bus will now offer 576Gbps of bandwidth, which is a huge step up. High-end models, like the RTX 4090, will be able to hit a massive 1.
Micron’s announcement is, indeed, perfectly timed. There’s been a lot of buzz about the problems that limited VRAM and memory bandwidth can cause in gaming scenarios. Nvidia received quite a bit of backlash for its $400 RTX 4060 Ti, which only sports 8GB of VRAM across a 128-bit bus. Imagine how much better that card might have fared if it already had GDDR7 RAM to give it that crucial boost of bandwidth.
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