Samsung’s new GDDR6W graphics memory doubles performance and capacity

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Samsung has announced its next-gen memory tech (opens in new tab) for high performance graphics cards: GDDR6W. Claimed to offer double the capacity and performance of conventional GDDR6 memory, GDDR6W is said to be comparable with HBM2E for outright performance and will enable overall graphics memory bandwidth of 1.4TB/s. For reference, Nvidia’s beastly GeForce RTX 4090 (opens in new tab) currently tops out at 1TB/s using GDDR6X.

Samsung is bigging up the new tech as being key to enabling “immersive metaverse experiences.” (opens in new tab) However, the new tech probably won’t enable more memory bandwidth or faster graphics cards in the short term. But more on that in a moment.



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