It looks like GDDR2 memory starts gaining its popularity as Samsung Electronics today announced production of its 256Mb Graphics Double Data Rate2 (GDDR2) SDRAM. The 256Mb capacity will enable building graphics cards with up to 512MB of memory using PCBs of typical sizes. Besides, the 1600MHz DRAM chips will allow extremely fast graphics cards.
Samsung claims that the new devices had already been supplied to leading graphics card manufacturers, suggesting that the actual products with such amazing memory are not too far away. I believe that we will hardly see any graphics cards with 512MB of mind-blowing fast memory in late 2003 or early 2004, but a year from now there definitely will be high-end graphics products with 512MB of memory. Such graphics cards may be based on the successors of the NV40 and R420 designs, for example.
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