Hynix to launch 7Gbps GDDR5 memory

For even faster graphics cards

Hynix has announced what for the moment is the fastest GDDR5 memory on the market with data speeds of up to 7Gbps, which is 2Gbps more than the previously fastest GDDR5 memory chips which offer data speeds of 5Gbps.

How much of an impact this will have for AMD, as so far Nvidia has yet to launch a GDDR5 based graphics card, is hard to say, but the extra bandwidth should allow for faster cards based on the current architecture.

Hynix will offer 1Gbit chips (128MB) which means that a 512MB graphics card will only need four chips, which is ideal for something like the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 as it means the memory chips take up less PCB space.

The downside is that volume production won't kick off until sometime during the first half of next year, which is a very open time frame to say the least. By then we might also see some new GPUs that will take full advantage of these faster memory chips.

You can find the press release here

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php? [...] 5&Itemid=1

i cant wait till this stuff hits the desktop, an i8 @8.2 and running this stuff
I can dream cant I

You can dream, but I wouldn't want to look at the price tag.

I want to be a GDDR5 fanboy!!!!

The stuff rocks, big leap for graphics cards. Seems like the memory is currently much further ahead than the GPU's need.

Now I have to start saving. What lovely times we live in. Not too long ago, we had 810MB hard drives.
I only hope that they don't go too over board with the prices like they did with DDR3 desktop memory.