Samsung, one of the world’s largest chip manufacturers and developers, announced a new first that will break new ground in graphics performance. The company introduced the world’s first 24 Gbps GDDR6 DRAM chip. The new chip offers 30% better performance than the 18 Gbps chips found in today’s highest hardware, according to the company’s statement.
According to the information shared by Samsung, the chip will be able to transfer 1.1 terabytes of data in just one second on a high-end graphics card with a data processing power of 24 Gb per second. In other words, the chip will be able to transfer the data of 275 Full HD resolution movies to the graphics card in just one second. This will offer a huge performance boost, especially for gaming and business tasks that require high graphics performance.
New models are also coming with power efficiency above the GDDR6 standard:
Alongside the new 24 Gbps chip, Samsung also announced that it will launch GDDR6 chips with 16 Gbps and 20 Gbps ratings. These chips will also have 20% higher power efficiency to increase battery life, especially in laptops. While the power efficiency standard is 1.35V in GDDR6 chips, Samsung will reduce this value to 1.1V.
Samsung stated that it has started producing samples of the new GDDR6 chips with 16 Gb of memory. While Samsung’s new chips continue to be reviewed by the company’s customers, the first products where we will see the chips physically will come this year. NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4000 series, one of the graphics card series expected to host the chips, is expected to be introduced towards the end of this year.
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