The first generation of graphics cards with memory GDDR7 from both NVIDIA and AMD It aims to represent an important leap at the technological level and change some paradigms, such as the minimum amount of memory that a graphics card could contain.

According to the leak kopite7kimi, the first generation of graphics cards with GDDR7 memory will use a matrix with a density of 16 gigabytes, so the minimum capacity for the standard would be set at 2 gigabytes of VRAM. This would double the density of 8 gigabits over GDDR6, which represents a 1 gigabyte memory module as the floor.

As for the speeds that GDDR7 can provide, Samsung and Micron are targeting 32 Gbps for the pin and 16 gigabits for the die. Micron, for its part, does not exclude that it will reach and exceed 24 gigabits in the future.with which you could get a 3GB memory module, while with 32 gigabit you would get 4GB.

But as is usually the case when you point to a future whose fate is not visible on the horizon, it is necessary to take the information with a grain of salt and stick to the least dense cube of all mentioned, since NVIDIA, AMD and Intel will almost certainly be stored letters in order to take advantage advantages of technology and bring as many products to the market as possible. Like it or not, we are talking about business here and what businesses are looking for is maximum profit.

First we will use 16Gbit.

— kopite7kimi (@kopite7kimi) March 7, 2024

Talk about the amount of VRAM implemented in the first generation of NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards with GDDR7, no increase is expected initially, so it is likely that the reference middle series of both brands, consisting of the 60 and 600 series respectively, will retain around 8 GB, which is currently no longer a guarantee for playing new generation titles in ultra, 1080p and 60fps, or at least without the help of upscaling. However, as seen with the RX 7600 XT, it is likely that variants of the same graphics cards with more VRAM will appear later.

As for the premiere of GDDR7, information so far suggests that it would be with NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 50 generation and AMD’s RDNA 4 architecture. It can be expected that the former will join forces once again with Micron and launch GDDR7X memory, while the use of RDNA 4 in all Radeon graphics lines remains unknown, but everything seems to indicate that AMD will use a different 8000 architecture for the high-end Radeon RX models.

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