09-07-2018, 01:40 AM
https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/27647...rtx-launch
Quote:Luckily, Micron recalled its own product announcement by paragraph 3. The company notes that GDDR6 is shipping with up to 14Gbps performance today. Faster speeds are possible; in June Micron announced it had managed to overclock its GDDR6 up to 20Gbps with a voltage bump. Clearly, there’s some headroom for more bandwidth over the long run, which honestly isn’t all that surprising. The first GDDR5 GPUs, like the Radeon HD 4890, offered up to 125GB/s of bandwidth on a 256-bit bus. Today, GPUs like the RX 580 (which also uses standard GDDR5 and a 256-bit bus) have hit 256GB/s of bandwidth. It’s good to see Micron being able to push GDDR6 up to 20Gbps, but that’s honestly what we should expect to see given the expected longevity of the standard.
The aggressively pro-Nvidia sales pitch is still more than a little strange, however, and it’s not a function of the fact that Nvidia is the launch partner on GDDR6. Nvidia was also the only GPU company that used GDDR5X, and Micron the only company that built it, but none of the blog posts the company published over 2015 and 2016 take the same ridiculous tone or over-the-top presentation.
RTX GPUs are coming. They’re going to be faster than current cards, though they’re also arriving at higher prices in a break with recent years in which Nvidia has opted for either no price increases or smaller jumps. Whether you intend to buy one or not, your backyard will remain safe for the foreseeable future.