Samsung announces GDDR6 memory with 24Gbit/s speed

Samsung has announced GDDR6 memory that can handle speeds of up to 24Gbit/s. That is a third more than the 18Gbit/s that Samsung has offered up to now in its memory. The release follows ‘in line with releases of GPUs’, according to the manufacturer.

Samsung has started sampling the memory, according to the manufacturer itself. That is a preliminary stage of mass production. It is 16 Gbit memory. Samsung does not yet say exactly how much memory the variants will have, but does say that variants will be available for laptops with dynamic voltage switching, in order to reduce power consumption. There will also be versions with 20Gbit/s and 16Gbit/s throughputs that operate at 1.1V, as opposed to the 1.35V standard with GDDR6.

With the announcement, Samsung follows competitor Micron, which this spring said it would make GDDR6X memory at 24Gbit/s. Perhaps the chips will also be used in the next generation of Nvidia cards, although that is not confirmed. An earlier rumor states that Nvidia’s RTX 40 series supports configurations of up to 24GB of GDDR6X memory.

Samsung makes the GGDR6 memory on the third generation of its 10nm class process for dram. The release of the memory follows ‘in line with the release of GPUs’. Samsung is probably referring to the RTX 40 series from Nvidia, among other things. It is scheduled for this fall. Nvidia has not yet announced anything about it.