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Samsung has announced the mass production of 16 Gb GDDR6 SDRAM chips with a higher-than-expected pin speed. The chips could see use in upcoming graphics cards that are not equipped with High Bandwidth Memory:
Samsung has beaten SK Hynix and Micron to be the first to mass produce GDDR6 memory chips. Samsung's 16Gb (2GB) chips are fabricated on a 10nm process and run at 1.35V. The new chips have a whopping 18Gb/s pin speed and will be able to reach a transfer rate of 72GB/s. Samsung's current 8Gb (1GB) GDDR5 memory chips, besides having half the density, work at 1.55V with up to 9Gb/s pin speeds. In a pre-CES 2018 press release, Samsung briefly mentioned the impending release of these chips. However, the speed on release is significantly faster than the earlier stated 16Gb/s pin speed and 64GB/s transfer rate.
18 Gbps exceeds what the JEDEC standard calls for.
Also at Engadget and Wccftech.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday January 19 2018, @03:42AM (3 children)
And yet, Windows still slows down, locks up, and barfs its dysenteric guts out on the regular on that 16GB home computer.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday January 19 2018, @03:50AM (2 children)
Swap HDD for SSD, remove pre-installed bloatware, disable unnecessary services [blackviper.com], and install ad/script blockers and even the Windows computer should be fine.
In fact, RAM requirements [wikipedia.org] have held pretty steady for Windows lately. 2 GB minimum for x64 and 4 GB recommended since Windows 7 in October 2009. 8 GB is probably more than enough for most.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 19 2018, @12:49PM
i was going to say this advice is almost 10 years old, and you can write the same sentence and change the numbers if you go all the way back to dos with windows 3.1 running on it. just say 4mb is minimum 8mb recommend--16mb is great.
64mb was overkill (me I had 24mb in that era, due to having two 16s and two 4s populating the ram slots--i upgraded and found i could use half of the previous memory without encountering what enthusiasts cried about as unmatched memory killing performance. i made the extra ram space into a ramdisk and... well multiply it all by 1024 and i still do the same things today)
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday January 19 2018, @04:08PM
I shouldn't need a Computer Degree to get a stable Windows environment. Though, I guess that's the price one pays for using MS?
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