Micron sees strong yield, high speeds on GDDR5X @ Extreme Tech

Normally the development of a new memory technology would be of great interest however, reading this article really puts into perspective the impact that HBM memory has on the industry.

HBM and GDDR5X are sufficiently different that there’s probably no practical way for either company to support both standards on the same silicon. AMD and Nvidia typically design a high-end SKU that they sell into 1-2 lower market segments by disabling parts of the chip. In order to use GDDR5X in the target market, the GPU vendors would need to design separate parts with a different memory controller.

We’re not going to declare the standard dead; Micron’s early yields and high bandwidths are impressive. Right now, however, the industry appears set to adopt HBM2 as the premiere interface, with GDDR5 filling in at the midrange and below.

This really is a huge problem (mostly for Micron).  Right now GDDR5 is being used on all video cards except for the AMD Fury.  These are using onboard HBM and aside from lackluster overclocking they are good.  NVIDIA has shown they can use HBM on their next generation of GPUs which leaves no good reason as to why anyone to use GDDR5 in the future.

In away it also marks the end of extreme overclocking using video cards since memory has never responded well to being cold.

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