AMD/ATI's new Innovation

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wolf2009

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AMD has been on a roll lately with bringing new innovations to graphics market.

1. They Brought DX10.1

2. They were the first to break 1 Teraflop Barrier

3. They were the first to use GDDR4 and GDDR5

Now they have made a new innovation ,

They are going to use DDR3 memory on low-end graphic cards such as HD4670 instead of GDDR3 that we see on about every card.

DDR3 memory offers GDDR3 performance at DDR2 prices according to AMD.


Non-G DDR3? Sure, Why Not

For a while now we've been seeing either DDR2 or GDDR3 on most graphics cards. The future standard looks to be GDDR5 at this point (with 4 being skipped due to its not-that-much-better-ness when compared to GDDR3), but currently board makers are faced with an interesting situation: DDR3 is coming down in price due to its adoption on the desktop.

The push to GDDR3 was to fill the need in the graphics industry for faster DRAM, so it came along a little ahead of DDR3 and has served us well for the past few years. DDR3 is now finding traction in the desktop world and prices are starting to come down as every major platform will support DDR3 going forward. Performance is apparently fairly similar at the speeds DDR3 can hit (we don't really have a way of testing this ourselves right now, but this is what AMD is telling us), so price is really the only differentiator.

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The future: GDDR5 at the high end and DDR3 at the low end for graphics cards

Cheaper DRAM means cheaper boards, especially on the low end where we won't see really high speeds where GDDR3 or GDDR5 would be required. This is a good thing as it will hopefully bring performance down to the mainstream faster.
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http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3405&p=2
 
ati FTW...

sorry for my fanboy ism :p

but seriously thats innovation right there i would never have thought of that.
 
not exactly news, nothing innotive about it, been done before with the other desktop ram variants and doesn't affect the high end so who cares.
 
And this is innovation how? You fan boys never cease to amaze me. :rolleyes:

The only thing this will do is drive DDR3 prices down. Well...it could conceivably drive them up if the supply drops off. :eek:
 
You should have included the inovation of crossfirex allowing you to use different makes and models of the same series to be crossfired such as a 4870x2 with a 4850 from different brands.
Also the ability to run a multimonitor display on a multigpu setup.
 
I guess you could call it innovative but more so I would call it smart. That move is definitely going to increase the profit margins :).
 
Now they have made a new innovation ,

They are going to use DDR3 memory on low-end graphic cards
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Holy Shit!!! :eek:

This is bigger than them firing up the Large Hadron Collider.

What next? A rear spoiler on a moped......
 
And in what parallel universe is DDR3 memory priced the same as DDR2? The one the Large Hadron Collider is going to create?
 
There's nothing innovative about this; it's normal.

GDDR3 and and the DDR3 standard have nothing to do with each other besides that they're both memory. GDDR3 is based off of DDR2. Now that the standard is finalized, they're using regular DDR3.
 
I fail to see what's so exciting, much less innovative about this.

Using cheap components to make cheap cards isn't all that innovative.
 
necrophile said:
not exactly news, nothing innotive about it, been done before with the other desktop ram variants and doesn't affect the high end so who cares.
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Yeah since there is no market out there besides the top end, right?
 
Dr. kitteny berk said:
Christ, you got me excited there, I thought they were gonna like, make some properly functional drivers for a moment :D
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Sorry, the vendor you mentioned wasn't responsible for 70% of Vista instability problems. They weren't responsible for stuttering in Unreal Engine 2 that took a year + to solve, either.
 
Lost! said:
Sorry, the vendor you mentioned wasn't responsible for 70% of Vista instability problems. They weren't responsible for stuttering in Unreal Engine 2 that took a year + to solve, either.
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You must be talking about Microsoft. :eek:
 
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