AMD to Adopt DDR3 Technology

[naveen_reloaded]

It seems that Advanced Micro Devices remains consequent to its habits of letting Intel enjoy all the fun of developing new technologies, only to adopt them after some time, when the company considers said technologies to be affordable enough on the market. AMD acted this way when the industry went from DDR to DDR2 and now it does the same thing with the move from DDR2 to DDR3.

For the past few months, we saw Intel spend a lot of time and money in its pursue to convince everybody that DDR3 is a worthy thing, yet the company had too little success in DDR3 motherboard sales, due to the fact that, all the way through 2007 and 2008, DDR3 had some ridiculous prices.

The prices for DDR3 memory modules became a lot more affordable these days, and now we have the OCZ 1GB DDR3 priced at $55, while the 2GB DDR3 modules, either from Corsair or OCZ, can be purchased for a reasonable $110 price. Yet, DDR2 is more affordable still, but AMD considers the time has come to make the move to DDR3 chipsets and processors.

The new DDR3 motherboards from AMD are due to strike somewhere in Q1 2009 and we hope they will arrive in the late Q1 if not delayed. It seems that by the early 2009, prices for DDR3 will experience a severe drop and become a normal thing, so AMD lovers and DDR3 enthusiasts have something to be happy about.

For those who are not familiar with the terms, we should mention that the DDR3 part of the chipset is actually located inside the CPU. The motherboards will also feature an AM3 socket which will allow DDR3 and new processors do their job. The existing Hypertransport 3 architecture will also be featured in the new DDR3 boards.

All points to the fact that the first DDR3 based boards AMD plans to release should be RD790 DDR3 and RD890 DDR3.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-t...gy-88811.shtml

[hellknight]

Way to go AMD!!

[nish_higher]

nice..now we can hope DDR3 prices to fall

[naveen_reloaded]

^^ hoping it happens soooonnn...

[ssdivisiongermany1933]

AMD is always a late adopter , same was case with DDR -2 , they adopted it last year only

[adithyagenius]

DDR3 has insignificant effect on performance. Their processor is still the bottleneck. DDR2 is way too vfm. Even if ddr3 price drops it wont drop to the level to ddr2. DDR2 still remains vfm.

[MetalheadGautham]

They may adopt DDR3, but their CPUs are still not upto the mark.
AMD 780G = Best Chipset ever
ATI Radeon 4850 & 4870 = total pwnage of nVidia
DDR3 = The Future

But AMD Athlon and AMD Phenom = TOTAL FAILURE as of today.

[shantanu]

until and unless they take out the memory controller from the processor, it wont help them ! baaki one of my frined has a system with DDR3 , i dont find it really good..

[Pathik]

^ Even Intel is going the Integrated Memory controller way with Nehalem. That's the future.

[shantanu]

future.. is putting AMD in trouble isnt it ? DDR2 architecture came up with AM2 and they had to upgrade as a jump to DDR2 , i mean you have to change the processor to have DDR2 ram and mobo.. ! ? i am a AMD FAN BTW

[naveen_reloaded]

^^^ i like the avatar....

[Hrithan2020]

Originally Posted by adithyagenius

DDR3 has insignificant effect on performance. Their processor is still the bottleneck. DDR2 is way too vfm. Even if ddr3 price drops it wont drop to the level to ddr2. DDR2 still remains vfm.

The processor being the bottleneck may ring true for AMD's current line-up but i'm quite sure the upcoming intel's nehalem cpu's would be able to use it properly and we will see a significant effect in performance soon..
DDR2 prices are rising a bit right now..(increased from rs 950 to rs 1150 over the 3 months)

[phuchungbhutia]

So ddr3 prices ll come down . . Cos amd always presents tough competition right . .

[MetalheadGautham]

well, one fact is always true:

If you compare standard low budget performance AMD setups, i.e, AMD 690G, with standard low budget Intel setups, i.e, nVidia 610i, how ever strong intel's CPU may be, AMD always gains high leads over intel in memory speed.

So till nehalem comes, its going to be AMD all the way when it comes to memory.

[W i d e S c r e e N]

has ddr5 come into the picture like it has in the GPU market?

[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by W i d e S c r e e N

has ddr5 come into the picture like it has in the GPU market?

there is no such thing as ddr4 and ddr5 in computers YET.
gpus have a different system, called GDDR. its TOTALLY UNRELATED to DDR.

[mavihs]

price 2 high!!! but it mya become really low just like DDR & DDR2.

[bikdel]

^^^ Totally Unrelated?.... man they are related.. both are memory chips ...

[Hrithan2020]

Originally Posted by bikdel

^^^ Totally Unrelated?.... man they are related.. both are memory chips ...

GPU & CPU had same mem chips till ddr2.I think starting frm GDDR3 its deviating a bit......

[nish_higher]

^graphics cards always had gddr.no ddr.ddr is a different thing and yea totally unrelated.