Items tagged with gddr5x

by Paul Lilly - Sun, Oct 28, 2018

Palit GeForce GTX 1060 GamingPro OC Joins 6GB GDDR5X Bandwagon

NVIDIA's add-in board (AIB) partners are starting to update their product catalogs with updated GeForce GTX 1060 graphics cards sporting faster GDDR5X memory. Palit is the latest to jump on the bandwagon with its GeForce GTX 1060 GamingPro OC+ (NEB1060U15J9-1045D), and unlike the Gigabyte card we spotted yesterday... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Sat, Oct 27, 2018

Gigabyte Steps Up With GDDR5X-Strapped GeForce GTX 1060 G1 Gaming D5X 6G Graphics Card

Around a week ago, NVIDIA quietly updated its GeForce GTX 1060 product page to include GDDR5X memory as an option, meaning there is yet another version of one of the most popular mid-range graphics cards out there. When would we start to see new cards sport the upgraded memory? Right now, as it turns out. Gigabyte... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Sat, Oct 20, 2018

NVIDIA Stealthily Launches GeForce GTX 1060 With 6GB GDDR5X To Counter AMD Polaris Refresh

NVIDIA is all about its GeForce RTX series with real-time ray tracing and DLSS support right now, but rumors of AMD getting ready to introduce a refreshed Polaris GPU may have prompted to the company to upgrade one of its Pascal parts. So far there has not been any official announcement or fanfare, but a visit to... Read more...

by Brandon Hill - Thu, Dec 21, 2017

Micron Readies GDDR6 At Speeds Up To 16Gbps For Next Gen GPUs In 1H 2018

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are becoming an increasingly more valuable resource in the computing arena. We've seen high-powered GPUs powering everything from gaming consoles, to high-end enthusiast PCs, to accelerators used for artificial intelligence and machine learning applications, to products like... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Mon, Jun 05, 2017

Micron Drives Toward 16Gbps GDDR5X And GDDR6 Graphics Memory For Production Ramp Q1 2018

There are competing memory standards in the graphics industry, including GDDR5, GDDR5X, and high bandwidth memory (HBM) solutions. What will tomorrow bring? If you ask Micron, the memory with roots in Boise, Idaho will tell you that it has a roadmap in place for faster GDDR5X memory and is also working on... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Wed, Mar 23, 2016

Micron Announces Sampling Of GDDR5X Memory For Faster Next Generation Graphics Cards

Eventually we're going to see next-generation graphics cards outfitted with GDDR5X memory. It's a process getting to that point, and slowly but surely, things are moving along. To wit, JEDEC ratified the GDDR5X specification back in January of this year, and not even a full month later Micron announced that its GDDR5X... Read more...

by Rob Williams - Sun, Jan 24, 2016

Newly Ratified JEDEC GDDR5X Specification Doubles Bandwidth To 14 Gbps

We have been hearing about the next iteration of DDR for graphics for the past handful of months, and now, the folks at JEDEC have made it official. Called GDDR5X (the full standard is called JESD232 GDDDR5X SGRAM), this memory is designed to be twice as fast as GDDR5 per clock, boasting total throughput rates of... Read more...