Rambus vs. DDR

[Guest]

OK, we all know that Tom has, in the past, railed against RAMBUS memory, saying that DDR should equal or outperform RAMBUS. Yet, in his latest report (http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/00q4/001206/index.html) he clearly states that in some benchmarks the P4 outperforms the Athlon in part due to memory bandwidth problems. So is he changing his story now? Or is DDR not yet up to its full potential?

Steve

 

[LTJLover]

Well Tom has always agreed that the Rambus has enormous bandwidth capabilities, it just has more disadvantages than advantages. High bandwidth is great, but it has super high latencies and costs a ton.

Jon
"Water-Cooled CPU Runner"

 

[Grizely1]

Except high bandwidth doesn't really help unless your playing graphic intesive games or applications.....

 

[Arrow]

I'm definitely for DDR over Rambus.

Rob
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[mpjesse]

I think RAMBUS will do well in the server market, because of it's bandwidth capabilities. Of course, only Intel makes chipsets capable of SMP. AMD will soon have one out, but computers designed to be servers pass an enourmous amount of data thru the CPU, bus, and memory- which RAMBUS does very well. Price is not an issue because most companies buying servers have $ and are willing to spend it. DDR will get better. Although, I haven't eard crap on any faster or better RAMBUS memory... hmmm... maybe they should stop litigating and make some new technology.

-MP Jesse

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by mpjesse on 12/08/00 06:17 PM.</EM></FONT></P>