But one of main building block was launched yesterday, in 2008. Hynix introduced a chip with a friendly and “easily understandable” name: H5GQ1H24AFR. Even though the name looks like something that ENIGMA would encrypt, we’re talking about 128MB (1Gbit) memory chip that operates at the clock of 1.75 GHz in QDR mode, resulting in 7 GigaTransfers per second (7 GT/s or 7 “GHz”). Currently, ATI Radeon 4870 and 4870X2 come with 900 MHz chips that offer 3.6 GT/s, so we’re talking about doubling the memory bandwidth per chip.
This means that a GPU with a 256-bit memory controller would have roughly 219 GB/s of bandwidth, while 512-bit memory controller and these Hynix chips would result almost A GPU with 256-bit memory controller and 438 GB/s. These numbers are astonishing and quite frankly, will open the doors for higher performance jump than previously imagined.
Best thing of them all: due to new manufacturing process, Hynix 2nd Gen GDDR5 chips at 1.75 GHz works at 1.35V rail, and consumes less power than initial 900 MHz chips (3.6 GT/s ones). Yep, the power consumption will go down, and performance per chip is now doubling.
Graphics cards in 2009 - what to expect
Posted on Thursday, November 27 2008 @ 1:37 CET by Thomas De MaesschalckTheo Valich takes a quick look at what to expect from ATI and NVIDIA graphics cards next year, check it out over here. Here's a short snip, he says new 7Gbps GDDR5 memory will not only give a big performance boost, but also cut the power consumption:
