Samsung Electronics has announced that the chip giant AMD is using the company’s GDDR4 high-speed graphics memory chip in their next-generation graphics chipsets.
Samsung’s GDDR4 memory is being used in 1GB ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT and the 256MB ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT graphics processing cards.
The 1GB card is claimed to have the widest bus in the industry, which has specially been designed for full-performance HDR rendering in PCs.
The memory modules are being made using 80nm process technology, which provide the cards with a 140.8GB per second performance which is claimed to be 25% faster than the 700MHz GDDR3 graphics memory.
The GDDR4 memory modules are used to process video images in PCs and laptops at high speed are mainly used for gaming purposes so these cards will be a boon for all the game lovers.
Via: Nikkeibp
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