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Samsung Develops GDDR5 Memory at 6Gbps

Slowest GDDR5 is double the speed of fastest GDDR3/4...
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There is no such terme as GDDR perse, (...)
Oh yes there is, it's official JEDEC jargon. Graphics DDRs (GDDRs) are completely different from DDR-SDRAMs.
GDDR3 is not even remotely similar to DDR3.
At last, maybe GDDR2 will now finally drop off the fact of the earth. I mean my god, wtf were they thinking with GDDR2? It ran hotter, slower even with its massively faster clock speeds, and was only capable of a 128bit memory bus.
GDDR2 already dropped from the face of the earth a long, long time ago...
There are no graphics boards on the market that use GDDR2.
 
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Newegg knows nutting... :)
I guarantee those are infact DDR2, not GDDR2.

Lemme dig up a review of HD2600Pro where the chips are visible...
BRB.

edit:
http://www.digital-daily.com/video/asus_hd2600pro_ddr2/
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http://www.3dnews.ru/_imgdata/img/2007/09/18/60094.jpg
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http://www.qimonda.com/graphics-ram/gddr2/index.html
(I must admit I was quite surprised to see the page is labed as "GDDR2", BUT let's go deeper...)
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datasheet for "HYB18T256161BF":
http://www.qimonda.com/download.jsp...sheets Graphics/HYB18T256161BF_rev120_www.pdf
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256-Mbit x16 DDR2 SDRAM
HYB18T256161BF = normal, plain-Jane wide-bit DDR2, not actual GDDR2
 
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ATI does get a little goofy over fast memory, don't they . . .

Hell, I've got one of the last run X700 PROs where they went back and slapped 256MB of GDDR3 on 'em . . . never mind slow clocked GPU's - ATI's card architecture tends to lend itself well to odd memory combinations
 
GDDR4 is great and still hasnt really taken off too much. Now they got this ass kicker sweeping in. ATI 4800s anyone?
 
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