Wednesday, March 28th 2007
R600 DDR 3 works at 1600 MHz
On the highly anticipated R600 card, Fudzilla expects the on-board DDR3 modules to work at a modest 1600 MHz. We must however keep in mind that the R600 has a 512 bit memory controller, and that it will therefore have some impressive bandwidth.
As we already know, the GDDR4 version will come later and should have a clock even higher than 2000 MHz milestone. The core of the R600 from ATI will tick away at 750 to 800 MHz.
Source:
Fudzilla
As we already know, the GDDR4 version will come later and should have a clock even higher than 2000 MHz milestone. The core of the R600 from ATI will tick away at 750 to 800 MHz.
15 Comments on R600 DDR 3 works at 1600 MHz
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Hopfully since the first ones are ddr3 they will be cheaper than the ggr4, but I doubt it.
GDDR3 is certainly not a bad way to go and 512mb-1gb of the stuff pushing 102gb of bandwidth is certainly nothing to laugh at. Nvidia proved that already and to my knowledge the fastest retail 8800GTX pushes its 768mb of GDDR3 at 2ghz (on its 384 bit bus), which would yield "only" 96gb of memory bandwidth.
At the end of the day, it may actually be a brilliant marketing tactic if it is a mid ranged card they are bringing out initially, unlike most previous release between the Big 2 as it will not only be quick but it will have immediate mainstream rather than enthusiast appeal, everyone will rave about it's performance (hopefully) and then shortly after the top of the line comes out and just blows everything away!