NVIDIA GDDR5 Cards to Arrive in 2009
	NVIDIA hasn't even officially released its new D10U-based graphics cards lineup, but a few lucky journalists attending this year's Computex show were able to spot one of these cards. To make matters even more interesting, despite the fact that the new D10U ca ... [read more >>]
	05 June 2008, 06:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Graphic Cards Receive GDDR5 memory
	If you are wondering what AMD is prepping for its new R700 graphic cards, here's a piece of information you might find interesting. Qimonda, the memory manufacturer, has announced that it started shipping GDDR5 memory to AMD. The memory is supposed to be for the company's next generation graphic processors, meaning that the release of the new Radeon graphic cards is just around the corner. Qimonda also declared that ... [read more >>]
	21 May 2008, 11:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Qimonda Takes GDDR5 to Mass-Production: More Pixels on Your LCD
	German memory specialist Qimonda has announced that it was ready to ramp up production of the next generation of memory chips in the GDDR5 family. The advent of the new solution is likely to spark another battle between AMD's graphics division and its arch-rival Nvidia ... [read more >>]
	12 May 2008, 06:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

GDDR5 to Bring Back the Graphics Performance
	The single-GPU graphics cards market has been progressing at a small pace during the last years, as the more and more intricate graphics chips are hard to design and manufacture. The advent of the dual-GPU solutions did nothing but take another approach at the existing problem, however they are more expensive and come with higher power requirements. The most important obstacle in delivering higher performance on the single-GPU ... [read more >>]
	05 April 2008, 04:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Informs Its Partners About Delayed RV770 Chips
	AMD has just issued a memo for its technology partners, detailing upon the current progress with the upcoming graphics chips in the RV770 family. According to the memo, the chip manufacturer will release the RV770-powered graphics cards in late Q2, which means they will be ready before the Computex show starts. The RV770 chips will replace the RV670 offerings on the high-end market. The exact technical specifications are still ... [read more >>]
	12 March 2008, 07:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

GDDR5: Gaming Has Entered the 6Gbps Highway
	Samsung electronics announced that they have developed industry's fastest double-data-rate memory chip, the GDDR5, to transfer data at up to six gigabits per second rates. The new 512 MB GDDR5 chip is alleged to process data twice as fast as nowadays' technology, which would dramatically improve the gaming experience. Moreover, the GDDR5 standard can transmit moving images and associated data at 24 gigabytes per second. ... [read more >>]
	03 December 2007, 07:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hynix Rolls Out the World's First 1Gb GDDR5 DRAM Module
	Semiconductor manufacturers are constantly trying to improve on the design of their graphics memory modules (which have already reached extremely high processing speeds), in order to relieve the CPU and DDR RAM memory from the stress imposed by graphics-intensive applications and open the road for higher-quality multimedia experiences. And following this trend, Hynix Semiconductor has just announced the development of what seems ... [read more >>]
	15 November 2007, 13:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Faster and Bigger Video Memories
	Graphics card market is a very dynamic one as manufacturers of both graphics processing units and integrated boards fight to squeeze as much performance as possible for their designs. While graphics processing units, GPUs for short, get just about all the credit for the graphics performance, there is a component that is often overlooked, the graphics memory. Video memory differs from general computer system memory in several ways ... [read more >>]
	30 August 2007, 05:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Qimonda Prepares GDDR5 Testing Solution
	Some time ago, Qimonda AG was announcing its intentions of beginning the manufacturing process for GDDR5 memory modules, which they claimed to be the future in graphics memory. Their idea was bald, sorta, but it also had some downsides. First you have to consider that the main graphics chips being used on the majority of mainstream and high-end gaming solutions is based on GDDR3 memory modules. The shipping of video cards which used GDDR4[ ... [read more >>]
	18 April 2007, 05:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Qimonda Plans GDDR5
	Qimonda AG – according to market studies made by iSuppli – is the second graphics manufacturer in the world, after Samsung. They want to skip ahead by leaving GDDR4 memory production behind in favor of GDDR5 memory. The previous rename that Infineon had built up helped Qimonda triple its share market from 10 to 30%. According to Robert Feurle, vice president for Qimonda, the jump in the computer industry will not be towards di ... [read more >>]
	26 March 2007, 08:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia