Samsung creating a graphics cards revolution?

[tejesh]

Samsung Electronics said today that it has made a memory manufacturing breakthrough that allows it to produce a graphics memory chip that is faster than any other on the market.

The company has begun shipping what it claims is the world's first 512Mb GDDR3 synchronous DRam memory device for graphics card makers and games console manufacturers. The JEDEC-standard operates at up to 1.6Gbps.

The Samsung device has at least twice the density of any graphics memory available today, offering gamers much richer textures and imagery, the electronics giant said.

"With our new 512Mb GDDR3 memory we can provide sharply improved performance, reduced power consumption and more efficient space utilisation for 512Mb graphics cards," said Mueez Deen, director of marketing for graphics memory at Samsung Semiconductor.

Market analysts predict that the 2005 graphics DRam market will be 30 per cent higher than this year's figure, reaching close to $1.47bn. Mass production of the GDDR3 will begin early next year.

Now what do u think of this? gr8 news, I think.

 

[Nemesis]

dude read what the report sez...it sez quite clearly that this memory chip is 4 graphics cards manufacturers...ATi and NVIDIA r probably gonna b customers...

 

[Sourabh]

huh ATi and Nvidia leave the ram recommendation for the manufacturers

they just say wht is good and expected RAM for a particular GPU

and the RAM to be used depends totally on the manufacturer

 

[gxsaurav]

Good news for us, now we can play Doom3 with Ultra settings

 

[Sourabh]

Good news for us, now we can play Doom3 with Ultra settings

so when are u giving us the good news of ur new graphic card with samsung ddr3 512 mb memory chip

 

[AMITAGARWAL02]

When we will get this card
is this card agp or pci
what will be the cost of it

can it be attached to pentium 3


thanks
if anyone knows the answers please post here

 

[blade_runner]

When we will get this card
is this card agp or pci
what will be the cost of it

can it be attached to pentium 3


thanks
if anyone knows the answers please post here

ROFL dude ! Read the article ! Its a GDDR3 memory chip which will be supplied to major GPU makers like ATi, Nvidia, etc......It's not a gfx card. Graphics cards powered by this card should be available towards the end of 2005, we might see this GDDR3 chip on the new R520 and we might see revisions of the Geforce6 cards sporting this chip.