The first owners of Radeon RX 480 graphics cards with 4 GB of GDDR5 memory have noted something interesting – it turns out that most of these cards come with enough memory chips to have 8 GB of memory on-board. The only problem that stands in... Read more
NVIDIA’s mid-range GeForce GTX 1060 video card will be presented this fall, which is not that far away and the rumor mill is working at 100 per cent right now. According to the latest rumor the card will arrive with 6 GB of memory and judging... Read more
Some interesting information has shown up during the weekend and in a few words it can be summed up into this – there’s a very serious chance that NVIDIA will launch its desktop Pascal GPU generation on May 6, which happens to be this Friday... Read more
Little by little NVIDIA’s plans for the Pascal GPU generation become clear – there will be several Pascal GPUs with the GP100 reserved for high-performance computing applications and the so-called GP104 GPU powering NVIDIA’s desktop flagships... Read more
The new GDDR5X memory standard has gotten one step closer to gamers and ordinary users with Micron now shipping the first working samples of the new memory standard. A while ago the US memory company promised it would mass produce GDDR5X this... Read more
When the first HBM memory-enabled video cards appeared last year most of us thought that the time of GDDR5 had finished. Yet this turned out not to be the case – memory makers quickly came up with the idea of GDDR5X, despite expectations of... Read more
The JEDEC Solid State Technology Association, which manages memory standards, has published the specs of JESD232 Graphics Double Data Rate (GDDR5X) SGRAM. The specs are available now on JEDEC’s web site so anyone can freely download them.
In the past few days the popular tech web site Fudzilla published information that GDDR6 memory would be released in year 2016. As we noted back then, GDDR6 has been in the news ever since year 2012 but such memory has never made it to market... Read more
After refreshing its desktop GeForce GTX 750 video card with the GM107 GPU NVIDIA is apparently doing the same thing to its mobile video chips. A new online report now says that in the first days of year 2016 the US company will release... Read more
Video card memory has always gotten faster with time and it appears that the days of the reign of GDDR5 are limited – earlier this year we got the first graphics adapters based on HBM 1.0 memory and there’s information that next year we will... Read more
The upcoming Radeon R9 380X is just days away and with the new video card being so close some online retailers have already started listing it online. While people still can’t buy this AMD product and there are no prices mentioned, the tech... Read more