Samsung teases higher-than-expected speeds from its GDDR6 RAM
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Our inboxes are filling up with news of CES' various Innovation Award winners, but it's rare that something truly newsworthy gets highlighted in those messages. Samsung's slate of award-winning products includes at least one point of interest, though. The company bagged an award for its 16 GT/s GDDR6 graphics memory, so it revealed some interesting details of the progress on that product. Samsung says its GDDR6 RAM is already hitting 16 GT/s (presumably per pin), and presuming GDDR6 maintains the 32-bit-wide data interface per chip of GDDR5, that squares with Samsung's claim of 64 GB/s transfer rates per chip.
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