The tale of RDRAM

[juin]

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9159

Now everyone is gentle with rambus now they are almost dead.So here were the 1 to put fud and the like on rambus the only thing you have won is slower RAM the same may happen with Opteron the slower may win again.

[-peep-] french

 

[JimStapleton]

*sigh* yet another victim of ignorance.


Depends on the task: High bandwidth with a small number of large acesses, RDRAM is the best. It would be great for a Xeon or an Itanium, possibly even an Opteron.

However, Rdram has HIGH latency, 40 to 60 nanoseconds
compared with 4 to 6 ns in current DDR 333/400, that's a big difference. So if your app uses a lot of small memory retrievals, you want DDR. If you have a lower processor cach (relative to the number of simultanious threads running), you want DDR.


Really, the best memory interface is HIGHLY task dependant. For most of my tasks, I really don't want to pay more for RDRAM which will kill my performance.


Athlon XP 1600+, MSI K7T PRO2 RU (POS), 2x256 MB CRUCIAL PC2100 CL2.5 memory, Asus V6800 DDR Delux (GF 256) video card, 6.4GB+27GB WD HD, 40GB IBM HD (all 7200RPM). My computer is an acronym

 

[vk2amv]

Sigh. Piss off fanboy. You really proving how ignorant you are. The Opteron has been benchmarked and proven to be the faster CPU. If you cant accept that then get a life and dont touch computers again. And as for rambus. Well the reason DDR won is because it is the better standard. Intel wanted a monooly with rdram and they didnt get it. Simple as that.
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'It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realise how often they burst into flames'

 

[hineigger]

id say rambus is quite the rimjob...