Samsung Lists GDDR7 Memory Chips on Its Product Catalog

Now that JEDEC has printed specification of GDDR7 memory, memory producers are beginning to announce their preliminary merchandise. The first out of the gate for this period is Samsung, which has has quietly added its GDDR7 merchandise to its official product catalog.

For now, Samsung lists two GDDR7 devices on its website: 16 Gbit chips rated for an as a lot as 28 GT/s data swap price and a faster mannequin working at as a lot as 32 GT/s data swap price (which is in keeping with preliminary elements that Samsung launched in mid-2023). The chips perform a 512M x32 group and can be found a 266-pin FBGA packaging. The chips are already sampling, so Samsung’s shoppers – GPU distributors, AI inference distributors, group product distributors, and the like – should already have GDDR7 chips of their labs.

The GDDR7 specification ensures the utmost per-chip functionality of 64 Gbit (8 GB) and data swap fees of 48 GT/s. Within the meantime, first period GDDR7 chips (as launched so far) will perform a considerably affordable functionality of 16 Gbit (2 GB) and an data swap price of as a lot as 32 GT/s.

Effectivity-wise, the first period of GDDR7 should current a serious enchancment in memory bandwidth over GDDR6 and GDDR6X. Nonetheless functionality/density enhancements will not come until memory producers switch to their subsequent period EUV-based course of nodes. Consequently, the first GDDR7-based graphics taking part in playing cards are unlikely to sport any memory functionality enhancements. Though wanting a bit farther down the road, Samsung and SK Hynix have beforehand instructed Tom’s {{Hardware}} that they intend to reach mass manufacturing of 24 Gbit GDDR7 chips in 2025.

In every other case, it is noteworthy that SK Hynix moreover demonstrated its GDDR7 chips at NVIDIA’s GTC ultimate week. So Samsung’s rivals should be shut behind in delivering samples, and at last mass manufacturing memory.

Provide: Samsung (by way of @harukaze5719)