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Brand already distributes samples of new 20 Gbps 16 Gb GDDR6 memory chips

Samsung has begun shipping samples of the new 20 Gbps 16 Gb GDDR6 (model K4ZAF325BC-SC20) and 24 Gbps (K4ZAF325BC-SC24) memory chips to partners. Information about them was found in the catalog of a South Korean manufacturer. In the future, these microcircuits could appear on new generation video cards.

AMD Radeon RX 6000 graphics accelerators are mainly equipped with Samsung memory chips with 16Gb/s bandwidth and support bus widths of up to 256 bits. If AMD cards didn't use the innovative Infinity Cache technology, Radeon graphics accelerators would significantly lag behind in terms of speed and memory bandwidth from NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30-series graphics cards, which use chips of the new GDDR6X standard at speeds of speed. 19.5 Gbps. / s, and in addition they use a bus up to 384 bits wide. The fastest memory on AMD graphics cards are 18.5 Gbps GDDR6 chips on the Radeon RX 6900 XT LC accelerator.

The discovered 20 and 24Gbit Samsung memory chips may in the future establish themselves in the composition of AMD graphics accelerators based on RDNA 3 architecture and, in the future, on NVIDIA Lovelace graphics cards. As pointed out by the VideoCardz portal, both memory chips featured in the Samsung product catalog use 180FGBA packaging, such as the Samsung chips with the K4ZAF325BM-HC16 marking used in the Radeon RX 6900 XT model.

At the same time, it's NVIDIA that could become the first company whose graphics cards will receive memory at speeds above 20 Gb/s. According to the latest rumors, the upcoming GeForce RTX 3090 Ti graphics card will be equipped with 21 Gbps memory.

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