

AMD's next generation Radeon graphics card to get a boost from GDDR5







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RE: Wahoo!
By SandmanWN on 5/21/2008 3:47:41 PM , Rating: 5
Except your forgot one of the biggest bottlenecks with IGP solutions is their dependency on system ram. The 780G can alternately use on-board GDDR instead of system memory. So the guy is essentially correct.

RE: Wahoo!
By Pirks on 5/21/08, Rating: -1
RE: Wahoo!
By SandmanWN on 5/21/2008 4:43:03 PM , Rating: 2
Sheesh man, its only been on the market for about 30 days. Sorry they disappointed you so much and haven't released every conceivable combination of options for the board yet. Seems like it would be a little understandable that those models would be a little behind the release date given its been standard to hijack system memory for the last decade of IGP solutions.

RE: Wahoo!
By Nehemoth on 5/21/2008 4:45:05 PM , Rating: 2
RE: Wahoo!
By Pirks on 5/21/08, Rating: 0
RE: Wahoo!
By ZaethDekar on 5/21/2008 6:09:05 PM , Rating: 1
Think of it as this way.

You have ALWAYS learned to walk standing upright... everything from the ground goes through your feet. Now start walking like an ape. Now you have even more sets of feelings coming in and you have to figure out what is from where and organize it. However we have our brains do the work... they have to program it to know. So I am not surprised they havn't gotten it together in two months. So thus why I am holding out for the future.

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RE: Wahoo!
By arjunp2085 on 5/22/08, Rating: 0
RE: Wahoo!
By teldar on 5/23/2008 8:10:03 AM , Rating: 2
Unlike Pirks and amanojaku who seem to want to be negative about faster memory, I think it would be great to get faster memory on motherboards. As is pointed out, think of what the upcoming 790GX chipset would be able to do with some 2GHz DDR on the board as direct access for the IGP. Or just having that kind of bandwidth for the entire system. IGP would truly catch up with stand alone cards of the same specs instantly.

Now, I understand that DDR (standard and not GDDR) probably has significant differences in terms of precision over GDDR, but I can't help but think that it would be great if the technologies were able to merge somewhat.



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