One of the main aspects that we can find in graphics cards is the type of memory they use since it is one of the characteristics that allows them to greatly increase their performance, being the biggest leap that we are going to see in a long time. the change from GDDR6 to GDDR7. This time Samsung He is very clear about what he wants to achieve with his new GDDR7 memoriesand is the leadership in this field, offering capabilities and speeds far above what we could imagine.
The next generation of graphics cards has a large number of changes that will allow us to see the technological advances of each company, and it is clear that one of these is the arrival of the new standard of VRAM GDDR7which manages to practically double the memory capacity and add a large amount of speed compared to the previous one. That is why it is one of the most anticipated, mainly because it will allow companies that are dedicated to developing video cards to offer products that have extremely high power in each of the ranges that they can offer.
Samsung’s new 24Gb GDDR7 memory solution offers higher VRAM capacities and speed
A while ago we saw how all the companies that are dedicated to developing chips related to video memory achieved the milestone of developing the GDDR7 standard, and the company Samsung itself announced speeds of up to 32 Gbps and 16 Gb versions (chips of 2 GB). This obviously implies that the first round of chips that we will see on the market will not exceed these specifications, so we will see speeds that will be between 28 and 32 Gbps, although this does not mean that they have not developed ones that have higher speeds.
And one of the great news that Samsung has presented to us is the confirmation that they have developed the first memory DRAM GDDR7 of 24GB (3 GB) in the industry, which will offer up to a 50% increase in cell density while maintaining the same size as GDDR6. In addition to this, another of the great news about the company’s GDDR7 memory is that it will also incorporate clock control management and a double VDD design to improve energy efficiency by more than 30%.
In this case, the company promises that there will be a 25% improvement over the current GDDR6 memory, with speeds of 40 Gbps, but that in certain cases the memory could reach speeds of 42.5 Gbps, these being the speeds we can expect from GDDR7 modules the following:
512 bit – 2720 GB/s (2.7 TB/s)
384-bit: 2040 GB/s (2.0 TB/s)
320-bit: 1,700 GB/s (1.7 TB/s)
256 bit – 1360 GB/s (1.4 TB/s)
192 bit – 1020 GB/s (1.0 GB/s)
128 bits – 680 GB/s
This would imply that the reports and rumors indicating the fact that the RTX 5080 could arrive with a 24 GB configuration would make a lot more sense, since Samsung plans to start marketing these modules in early 2025, which would imply that they would arrive together with the release of the new NVIDIA graphics cards, as we well know.
