Talk:GDDR5 SDRAM

message: References are made in future tense to events that have long since passed ... seems this was written four years ago and updated two years ago. GDDR5 is widely used and has been for some time. 142.204.70.21 (talk) 19:10, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
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message: http://www.vr-zone.com/articles/Qimonda_Delivered_GDDR5_Samples_To_Customers/5379.html
Qimonda AG, a leading supplier of memory products, today announced as first DRAM manufacturer the availability of GDDR5 samples. Qimonda started shipping of the first 512Mb GDDR5 (Graphics Double Data Rate 5) samples to customers.
“We are pleased that we can support the GDDR5 activities of our customers with this first sample shipment, which is a major step to ensure the fast introduction of GDDR5 into the Graphics Market,” said Robert Feurle, Vice President of Business Unit Graphics at Qimonda.
GDDR5 is targeted to become the next predominant graphics DRAM standard and will boost memory bandwidth of graphics applications to a new dimension. The GDDR5 standard is about to get finalized in JEDEC where industry participants jointly defined this leading edge graphics standard over the last years. GDDR5 will be available with data rates up to 20GBytes / s per component, which is more than double the band width of the fastest GDDR3 memories today and comes with a multitude of advanced power saving features. First products with GDDR5 memories are expected for 2008. GDDR5 is targeting a variety of applications, starting with High Performance Desktop Graphic cards followed by Notebook graphics. Later on also the introduction in Game consoles and other graphics intensive applications is planned.
On June 25th, the Radeon HD 4870 was released, which is the first product to incorporate GDDR5.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.84.166.215 (talk) 16:29, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
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message: Added "technical" tag... The first part (main part) of this article is too much technical, and uses terms that don't even have articles about them. I don't think any non-expert (or at least someone very familiar with the subject) would understand it. PluniAlmoni (talk) 14:09, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: *Re-worked the lede 'graf and other parts (including the layman-cryptic "DQ lines" issue). Added some inline "rems" for future edit patrollers (including Qimonda's subsequent bankruptcy). Removed the {technical} tag on this page, per WP Backlog Project. — DennisDallas (talk) 02:48, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Technical terms 

message: Entry says : "On June 25, 2008, AMD became the first company to ship products using GDDR5 memory with its Radeon HD 4870 video card series, incorporating Qimonda's 512 Mb memory modules at 3.6 Gbit/s bandwidth."
This page http://www.qimonda.com/about/press/releases/05_2008_GDDR5_AMD_e.html says :
"...mass production and the volume shipping of GDDR5 512Mbit components with a speed of 4.0Gbps to AMD, a leading global provider of innovative processing solutions in the computing, graphics and consumer electronics markets. "  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.142.237.78 (talk) 06:23, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page doesn't agree with cited article 

message: I've read somewhere that GDDR5 is the counterpart of DDR2, which would mean a GDDR5 would fit on a DDR2 motherboard, is this true? 87.208.140.164 (talk) 13:36, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: You've understood nothing. Graphics RAM has little to do with common SDRAM--Prandr (talk) 14:30, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  GDDR5 vs DDR2 

message: An edit made by 24.114.208.202 added a paragraph about Hyrix Semiconductor's introduction of a 1 GiB chip, but it was written in a very promotional tone.  IP address lookup (link) resolved to "Cyclone Creative", a PR company that seems to specialize in web/social media.
The information helped to flesh out the timeline of chip density débuts, but the press release style of the edit was too blatant.
--50.92.219.161 (talk) 19:07, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: That is incorrect, the paragraph on Hyrix Semiconductors existed since before 2008. The only edit by 24.114.208.202 was to remove whitespace and did not add any content. Please research more thoroughly before pointing fingers, thank you 24.114.208.202 (talk) 17:12, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible advertising 

message: Uhm...here it says "Unlike its predecessor, GDDR4, GDDR5 is based on DDR3 SDRAM", but on the GDDR4 page it says "GDDR4 is based on DDR3 SDRAM technology"?--Loxus (talk) 23:43, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: AFAIR both are based on DDR3 technology. The statement was changed in February 2010 by User:Nikpapag - maybe ask him why he changed it ? --Denniss (talk) 10:21, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Based on DDR3 

message: There were a great deal of errors presented within this article, more specifically; units and their abbreviations. Firstly, units such as Gibibit and Mebibit do not belong in this article. The article is about memory and so JEDEC memory standards dictate units and their abbreviations. Secondly, although Gibibit and Gigabit can both be abbreviated as "Gbit", I changed all units to "Gb" to avoid confusion between the two. Along with that, I also changed all instances of "Gbit/s" to the more common "Gbps". Thirdly, there is a difference between a byte and a bit. Please refer here for any further information: JEDEC Standard 100B.01. -- Thanks, Jchap1590 (talk) 13:55, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of IEC standards 

message: I see no reason to keep these templates for this article. The GDDR5 article is no more technical than GDDR4 or any other article on the subject of GDDR memory, for that matter. The advertising issue looks like it was resolved some time ago and all information is up-to-date as far as I am able to determine. If you do not agree with the omission of these templates, state your case here. Jchap1590 (talk) 20:16, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maintenance Templates 

message: In the article it is implied that 64 gigabits (8 billion bytes) is equal to 16 times 512 MB = 8192 MB. Can someone explain this bizarre piece of arithmetic? Dondervogel 2 (talk) 15:26, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Was that a trick question? Using my personal SoFixIt policy I just removed the 4 Gbit detail arriving at sixteen 512 MB chips for a total of 8 GB = 8192 MB = 16×512 MB. Added later: 4 Gbit for a memory chip is of course just gibberish, they wanted a G for their promotional purposes, there are no memory chips with a decimal number of bits, unless the decimal number happens to be a multipe of 8 corresponding to octects. :-P –Be..anyone (talk) 00:17, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  Not a trick question.  When I see "1 GB" I have stopped trying to understand what it really means, because it could mean practically anything.  But when I see "1 Gbit" I (naively?) assume that 1 Gbit is intended.  Are you saying that wherever I see "1 Gbit" in this article, I should actually read "(1024)^3 bit"? Dondervogel 2 (talk) 06:32, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: If it's about speed it should be decimal, IIRC, as in the Gbps == Gbit/s discussed above. Any multiple of 1000 is also a multiple of 8 and 10, at least we don't end up with a remainder of 1..7 or 1..9 bits. ;-) Gbps might be really better if Gbit/s is confusing here, if all else fails we could exapand or wikilink the first occurrence for each of the two G here. –Be..anyone (talk) 07:39, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  There is no problem with Gbit/s.  That part is perfectly clear.  If I have understood correctly, the problem arises from the labelling of this product using the symbol "Gb" to mean something other than a gigabit.  Is it not this this misleading marketing ploy that needs to be addressed?  Dondervogel 2 (talk) 09:03, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  In the absence of any response I have replaced all misleading occurrences of "Gbit" with a brief explanation of what I think is intends. Comments and discussion are more than welcome, but please do not revert to the old (incorrect) text. Dondervogel 2 (talk) 11:00, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  16*4 Gbit = 64 Gbit = 8 billion bytes <> 8192 MB 

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