Samsung debuts the industry’s first GDDR7 memory chips
By Jess Weatherbed, a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews.
On Wednesday, Samsung announced that it has completed the development of the industry’s first GDDR7 DRAM, the next generation of graphics memory that will feature in future computing, vehicle, and gaming hardware releases. The company’s key partners can expect to install the new chips into their next-gen systems later this year for testing. If all goes well, we could see products running Samsung’s GDDR7 memory hitting the market sometime next year.
“Our GDDR7 DRAM will help elevate user experiences in areas that require outstanding graphics performance, such as workstations, PCs and game consoles, and is expected to expand into future applications such as AI, high-performance computing (HPC) and automotive vehicles,” said Yongcheol Bae, executive vice president of the Memory Product Planning Team at Samsung Electronics.
Samsung claims its new 16GB GDDR7 memory modules will deliver “the industry’s highest speed yet”
Samsung claims that the first generation of its new 16GB GDDR7 memory modules will deliver “the industry’s highest speed yet,” thanks to its adoption of Pulse Amplitude Modulation-3 (PAM3) technology — in simple terms, a form of signal modulation that allows for higher bandwidth compared to GDDR6’s PAM2. According to Samsung, its GDDR7 memory is capable of delivering 1.5TBps of bandwidth, a 40 percent increase compared to the 1.1TBps GDDR6 chips that the company announced last year.
Samsung also says its GDDR7 memory will feature a boosted speed per pin of up to 32Gbps. That’s 33 percent higher than the 24Gbps per pin data rate of
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