Enlarge (credit: Mark Walton) For the first time, Samsung is manufacturing GDDR6 memory in mass quantities. The memory is faster and more efficient than the GDDR5 memory it succeeds, and it will likely appear on PC graphics cards this year. Samsung’s GDDR6 memory is based on the company’s 10-nanometer technology and offers double the density […]
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Samsung starts producing GDDR6 RAM for next-gen graphics cards
You can start getting pumped about the next generation of graphics cards, as Samsung has announced that it’s building the first-ever 16-gigabit GDDR6 chips using its 10-nanometer class technology. The news isn’t a complete surprise, as Samsung previously said that GDDR6 was coming when it unveiled 8-gigabit DDR4 RAM chips last month and won a […]
Micron ramps up its GDDR6 graphics memory for crypto miners, gaming, and VR
Unless you’re a hardcore PC gaming enthusiast, chances are your everyday conversation doesn’t involve graphics memory chips, such as the upcoming GDDR6. But the folks at Micron are gearing up to transition from the older generation of GDDR5 graphics memory, which is currently in production, to GDDR6, which is coming in the first half of […]