What do you know about Samsung DDR6 and DDR7 memory?
Company Samsung In its annual report, it shared new information about the next generation of DDR7 and DDR6 RAMs along with GDDR6 Plus and HBM3 chips. In this regard, Computerbase was able to obtain general details of the standards of the next generation of Korean giant memory. More along Lyon Tak Be.
Currently, the latest generation of DDR5 RAMs is used for the twelfth generation of Intel’s Alder Lake platform. Although there are major problems with the supply of parts for these products, the manufacturers are trying to solve the problem of shortage of inventory as much as possible. Samsung DDR5 RAM speeds will reach around 6400 Mbps in the near future and more than 8500 Mbps in overclocked mode.
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Memory makers are now able to release their first DDR5 modules at 7000 Mbps. This is said to improve over time. The next generation of DDR6 RAMs is also being developed and will replace DDR5 in the future.
Since DDR5 modules have just been released, we do not expect to see DDR6 RAMs on the market until at least 2025-2026. It should be noted that DDR4 RAM has been used as the main standard for computer platforms for at least 6 years, and therefore the next generation of DDR6 RAMs is expected to be available in a few years. Some RAM companies have already unveiled 12,000 Mbps for their DDR5 modules. Therefore, it is predicted that the data transfer rate in DDR6 RAMs can exceed 20 Mbps at best.
Samsung also plans to soon introduce the faster GDDR6 Plus memory standard as a replacement for GDDR6 chips. A major improvement in GDDR6 Plus memory is the significant improvement in bandwidth, which is said to speed up to 24 Gbps and will be used as part of the next generation of GPUs.
GDDR6 Plus chip insane speed
Such chips allow graphics cards supplied with 384, 352 and 320-bit interface bus to achieve bandwidth of more than 1 terabyte per second. Meanwhile, the bandwidth of 256-bit GPUs can reach 768 Gbps at best.
In the other part of this report, GDDR7 graphics memory was mentioned and it is expected to increase the data transfer speed to 32 Gbps. With a GDDR7 chip with a 256-bit interface bus and a transfer speed of 32 Gbps, it can deliver 1TB of bandwidth. If the GUI increases to 384 and 512 bits, this value will reach 1.5 and 2 terabytes per second, respectively.
Finally, the Korean giant plans to start mass production of HBM3 memory from the second quarter of 2022. The next-generation HBM memory standard will be used as the main option for next-generation CPUs and data cards for data centers. It should be noted that SK Hynix also recently demonstrated its HBM3 modules.