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Differences Between DDR4 & GDDR5 Memory
The finer distinctions between DDR and GDDR can easily be masked by the impressive on-paper specs of the newer GDDR5 standards, often inviting an obvious question with a not-so-obvious answer: Why...
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Intel Optane Memory: A New Drive Caching Solution
We recently covered Intel’s DC P4800X data center drive, with takes on the technology from two editors in video and article form. Those content pieces served as a technology overview for 3D Xpoint and...
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5500MHz Memory Overclock Sets World Record (Ft. GSkill Trident Z DDR4)
Professional overclocker Toppc recently set another world record for DDR4 SDRAM frequency. Using a set of G.SKILL DDR4 sticks (an unidentified kit from the Trident Z RGB line) bestriding an MSI X299...
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Memory Shortage Worsens in Face of iPhone 8 Launch
We’ve been writing about the latest memory and Flash price increases for a bit now – and this does seem to happen every few years – but relief remains distant. The memory supply is limited for a few...
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Video Cards Facing More Price Hurdles: GDDR Cost Increases
Where video cards have had to deal with mining cost, memory and SSD products have had to deal with NAND supply and cost. Looks like video cards may soon join the party, as – according to DigiTimes and...
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The Cost of HBM2 vs. GDDR5 & Why AMD Had to Use It
Variations of “HBM2 is expensive” have floated the web since well before Vega’s launch – since Fiji, really, with the first wave of HBM – without many concrete numbers on that expression. AMD isn’t...
View ArticleDRAM Prices Reportedly Remain Gouge-y For Foreseeable Future
The latest report out of TrendForce and DRAMeXchange indicates that the already-high DRAM prices will continue to climb through 2018. Original shortages were accused of being fallout from impending...
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Intel Optane Memory Modules in 2018
During a presentation at the USB Global Technology Conference, Intel indicated that the roadmap for Intel Optane DIMMs lands their proprietary memory somewhere in the second half of 2018. Thus far,...
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DDR4 RAM Sales for Black Friday (Yes, You Read That Right)
With the US Thanksgiving holiday right around the corner, sales and discounts have begun making it almost affordable to build a PC again after months of high prices. One component that has seen huge...
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Government Regulator Investigating DRAM Price Fixing Possibility
China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) is looking into the possibility of DRAM price-fixing between the major memory and Flash suppliers, with specific interest from the Pricing...
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RAM Price Report: DDR4 Same Price as Initial Launch
While researching GPU prices and learning that GDDR5 memory price has increased by $20-$30 on the bill of materials lately, we started looking into the rising system memory prices. RAM pricing has...
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HW News: GDDR6 Mass Production, MSFT Telemetry, & AMD Newhires
This week's hardware news recap teases some of our upcoming content pieces, including a potential test on Dragonball FighterZ, along with pending-publication interviews of key Spectre & Meltdown...
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R5 2400G APU Memory Benchmarks & Single vs. Dual-Channel
CPUs with integrated graphics always make memory interesting. Memory’s commoditization, ignoring recent price trends, has made it an item where you sort of pick what’s cheap and just buy it. With...
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HW News: NV GPP, RAM Prices Getting Worse, & Coffee Lake in Z170
The past week of hardware news has been peculiarly busy for this time of year, with a deluge of news posting toward the latter half of last week. For major stories, [H]ardOCP’s coverage of nVidia’s GPP...
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GDDR6 Slated for Next-Gen nVidia GPUs, Mass Production in 3 Months
At GTC 2018, we learned that SK Hynix’s GDDR6 memory is bound for mass production in 3 months, and will be featured on several upcoming nVidia products. Some of these include autonomous vehicle...
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HW News - AMD Going DDR5, HBM for CPUs, & 7nm Challenges
This week's hardware news recap primarily focuses on some GN-exclusive items pertaining to AMD's plans with system memory in the future, mostly looking toward DDR5 for CPUs and HBM integration with...
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Memory Industry Exposé Exclusive | GN Report
We wrote a couple of scripts to scrape the data shown in this content, showing memory price trends for the year so far. We recently set forth on an information gathering mission to learn about how much...
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HW News - China vs. Memory Makers, B450 Chipset Specs
Despite Computex’s imminence, there are still plenty of pre-show announcements and news items to discuss. This week’s anchor item is the “conversation” that Micron has been having with memory...
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HW News - NVIDIA GPU Overstock, RAM Price Fixing Fines
Hardware news hasn’t slowed since Computex; in fact, this week has been among the busiest in months, with several news items out of the “Big Three” manufacturers. NVidia has seemingly purchased too...
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What Are Memory Timings? CAS Latency, tRCD, tRP, & tRAS (Pt 1)
Frequency is the most advertised spec of RAM. As anyone who’s dug a little deeper knows, memory performance depends on timings as well--and not just the primary ones. We found this out the hard way...
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