Why is NVIDIA now releasing an existing model with only improvements to its GDDR6 memory? The RX 5500 has been on the market for months and such a change would mean simply turning the production line into manufacturers, why is it so late?
The industry is running out of GDDR5 to sell it
No sooner than expected and it is possible that Coronavirus will deal with it more, but the industry is largely responsible for NVIDIA's transformation and compliance GTX 1650. As reported by NVIDIA itself, both Micron and Samsung moved their product to GDDR6 at a much higher rate than expected and with this reminder is a bit old.
The benefit of starting NVIDIA is that its VRAM controllers are able to support both GDDR5 and GDDR6 at 32 bits, so a change in production lines simply changes one VRAM model to another, though this changes the last bit usage.
Performance has changed, as on average NVIDIA puts performance improvement at about 6% while bandwidth is more than impressive 50%by 128 GB / s for the new 192 GB / s.
There will be no price difference
As we have already reported, NVIDIA will respect the price set for its chips and manufacturers will do the same for their models, so, the update is about high performance at a cost of a few watts.
The problem will come, as it often does in these cases, when it comes to separating the GDDR5 and GDDR6 models, where we hope other manufacturers correctly interpret it to avoid possible errors.
Another straightforward but unused development in this range is the distance over. It is known that GDDR6 is slightly higher than GDDR5, but on the graphics card in this range the bandwidth makes a huge difference in overall performance.
In terms of what is mature in China, early models are increasing on average +375 MHz, which means departure 12 Gbps to 15 Gbps with an average gain of 10% thanks to the fact that the best architecture to be built by GDDR6 achieves clean signals through IMC, allowing to absorb less GPUs and thus explode more MHz.
The new GDDR6 models are expected to arrive soon on shelves around the world, so NVIDIA will have to clean up the GDDR5 model stock until the old model is stopped by manufacturers.
