Last week the new standard was officially announced GDRR7 so we already know all the features that it offers us compared to the current version, GDDR6, which are double in almost all sections. While it is true that months ago Samsung had announced some of its features, we now know what it will be able to offer.
The launch of the series RTX50 from NVIDIA is scheduled for the end of this year, thus completing its semi-annual renewal cycle, a next generation that will use the architecture Black well and as expected, at least by users, it will come with GDDR7 with a speed of up to 28 Gbps, at least if we pay attention to the leak from the Twitter user kopite7kimi
RTX 50 uses GDDR7
The first GDDR7 graphics memory chips will be able to offer 32 Gbps speed, NVIDIA will limit the speed to 28 Gbps, which is 55% more bandwidth than GDRR6 (18 Gbps) and 33% more than GDDR6X (21 Gbps). It would not be the first time Nvidia It uses a lower speed in the memories of a new generation of graphics. It has already done this with the RTX 20 with GDDR6, limiting it to 14 Gbps when it was capable of offering 16 Gbps.
Everything seems to indicate that the first generation of the RTX 50 range will be limited and, as the months pass and NVIDIA renews the graphics range with new models within the same range, the greater speed that she is able to offer will be taken advantage of. de, therefore, if you are thinking about the possibility of buying the new RTX 50 when it is launched on the market and you want it to last a few years, it would be advisable to wait for the next generation which will take advantage of all the GDRR7 Speed
This new memory standard is not only much faster than the previous generation, but it is also more energy efficient. energy consumption. The fact that consumption is lower should not attract attention since it should decrease and not increase, which contradicts recent statements by the CEO of NVIDIA in which he claims that the next generation of GPUI for AI will consume more energy therefore it will be necessary to put in place a system of liquid refrigeration
It is clear that the design of GPU for AI and graphics cards with different markets, however, the optimization of the new GDDR7 standard should not only aim at a better performance but also to improve the energy efficiency of all the graphics that implement them, both those designed for AI and those intended for home use.
Raden RX800 with GDDR7
Obviously, NVIDIA is not the only graphics card manufacturer working on implementing this new standard in its graphics range. AMD does not want to be left behind and is also working on the use of GDDR7 in the RX8000.
Of which if we know absolutely nothing it is Intel which still seems unclear about what it wants to do in the graphics market, and if it does not want to fall behind its biggest rivals, it will have to follow the same path.
