PenStar Systems have fired off a few questions to Brian Burke and friends at NVIDIA: regarding GDDR-3! Here's a snip.
Last year ATI announced that it was working with memory manufacturers to develop GDDR-3. DDR-2 had already been used in products from both NVIDIA and ATI (GeForce FX 5800 series and the Radeon 9800 Pro 256 MB respectively). The problem with DDR-2 for graphics is that even though it runs at a slightly lower voltage, the first examples ran very, very hot. ATI worked with memory manufacturers to develop the GDDR-3 spec, and I would imagine that NVIDIA probably had their say also. Now we are in 2004 and NVIDIA is the first to bat with a GDDR-3 enabled solution. The first product will be a GDDR-3 enhanced version of the GeForce FX 5700 Ultra. Many were not too terribly excited about the prospect of this, but I believe that it is the first major step to adopting a significantly new memory standard that hasn't been seen since the introduction of DDR memory to graphics boards (beginning with the GeForce DDR).
NVIDIA First out with GDDR-3
Last year ATI announced that it was working with memory manufacturers to develop GDDR-3. DDR-2 had already been used in products from both NVIDIA and ATI (GeForce FX 5800 series and the Radeon 9800 Pro 256 MB respectively). The problem with DDR-2 for graphics is that even though it runs at a slightly lower voltage, the first examples ran very, very hot. ATI worked with memory manufacturers to develop the GDDR-3 spec, and I would imagine that NVIDIA probably had their say also. Now we are in 2004 and NVIDIA is the first to bat with a GDDR-3 enabled solution. The first product will be a GDDR-3 enhanced version of the GeForce FX 5700 Ultra. Many were not too terribly excited about the prospect of this, but I believe that it is the first major step to adopting a significantly new memory standard that hasn't been seen since the introduction of DDR memory to graphics boards (beginning with the GeForce DDR).
NVIDIA First out with GDDR-3
