Micron set to launch GDDR6 graphics memory

[Kevin Lancaster]

Micron set to launch GDDR6 graphics memory

Micron announced it aims to launch its next-generation GDDR6 VRAM before the end of 2017, PCWorld reports.

 

[Thor]

I feel sorry for those who bought the GTX 1000 series.

Guess I will keep my GTX580s until the GTX1100 series comes out, should be worth the jump then?

 

[Y'all Qaeda]

I feel sorry for those who bought the GTX 1000 series.

Guess I will keep my GTX580s until the GTX1100 series comes out, should be worth the jump then?

If you always wait for newer tech - you'll be waiting forever... Trick is to find the level of performance that is acceptable to you.

 

[SYNERGY]

If you always wait for newer tech - you'll be waiting forever... Trick is to find the level of performance that is acceptable to you.

100% Correct.

There is always new,better,faster and more efficient tech around the corner.

 

[Gtx Gaming]

If you always wait for newer tech - you'll be waiting forever... Trick is to find the level of performance that is acceptable to you.

I upgrade when last gen high end cards, becomes EOL.

I get the best price for performance then. Just recently bought my Sapphire R9 fury Nitro OC for R4500.

 

[Thor]

If you always wait for newer tech - you'll be waiting forever... Trick is to find the level of performance that is acceptable to you.

100% correct.

GTX580 is pretty good still for me
Just to damn big and power hungry

 

[ponder]

I feel sorry for those who bought the GTX 1000 series.

Guess I will keep my GTX580s until the GTX1100 series comes out, should be worth the jump then?

With your reasoning you will never buy anything new as there will always be something newer around the corner.

A single GTX 1060 will kill your two 580 SLI configuration, use <25% of your power consumption, support DX12, run quieter & cooler.

So to sum it all up, no need to feel sorry for me others like me owning 10x0 series cards.

 

[SilverCode]

I feel sorry for those who bought the GTX 1000 series.

Guess I will keep my GTX580s until the GTX1100 series comes out, should be worth the jump then?

6 months after the GTX1100 series comes out, GDDR7 memory will probably be released. I feel sorry for those that plan to buy the GTX1100 series, I'm going to wait for the GTX1200 series with the faster RAM.

 

[Thor]

6 months after the GTX1100 series comes out, GDDR7 memory will probably be released. I feel sorry for those that plan to buy the GTX1100 series, I'm going to wait for the GTX1200 series with the faster RAM.

False.

GDDR is not something that gets updated a whole lot.

Not at the rate GPU serieses are spewed out.

 

[CamiKaze]

False.

GDDR is not something that gets updated a whole lot.

Not at the rate GPU serieses are spewed out.

It was a joke...

 

[LCBXX]

I feel sorry for those who bought the GTX 1000 series.

Guess I will keep my GTX580s until the GTX1100 series comes out, should be worth the jump then?

I feel even more sorry for those who bought a 1060 3GB. Well not sorry.

And the 970 4G...oh I mean 3.5GB. Oh God NVidia, you do test loyalty.

 

[PhireSide]

Or what about the suckers like me who bought the GTX970 with hobbled memory?

Oh well, it was cheap

 

[Fox1]

Just get a 4gb 1050Ti and enjoy your 1080p Gameworks gimped gaming.

Plot twist: AMD Makes HBM mainstream with Vega.

 

[ponder]

False.

GDDR is not something that gets updated a whole lot.

Not at the rate GPU serieses are spewed out.

First adoption dates in GPUs,
GDDR2 ~2003
GDDR3 ~2004
GDDR4 ~2005
GDDR5 ~2008
GDDR5X ~2016
HBM1 ~2015

Now there's a big jump between 4&5 but there's been no requirement for big leaps as gpu architecture had worked fine with older versions for yonks and weren't keeping things back.

Why don't all 10x0 series GPUs use GDDR5X? Because it's not required and existing GDDR5 has sufficient bandwidth.

Why is the memory bus bandwidth decreasing in GPUs yet the performance increases? Because of better memory compression algorithms.

I wanna say more but will just keep quiet.

 

[ponder]

Just get a 4gb 1050Ti and enjoy your 1080p Gameworks gimped gaming.

Plot twist: AMD Makes HBM mainstream with Vega.

I'm no fan of gameworks, things like hairworks etc is not worth the FPS knock on ANY brand of GPU. The 1050TI is not a bad budget GPU starting at R2400, it will give you decent gaming performance at 1080 without requiring a dedicated PCIe power connector. The RX 470 4GB is a much better performer if you have R600 more to spend but in SA it makes more sense to go for the RX 480 4GB at R3300.

You make it sound as if only nVidia gpus use & suffer using gameworks while it works and diminishes performance on both nvidia & amd. Secondly the implementation of gameworks is by the developers/publishers.

If you don't like it do what many others like myself does, just turn it off in the game settings.