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New DDR3 Memory Touted As Fastest In the World
An anonymous reader writes to tell us that a relatively unknown Taiwanese company just rolled out what they claim is the world's fastest DDR3 memory kit. "Gingle DDR3 1800 memory module features high performance (1800MHz on P45/ 2000MHz on 790i), lower latency (8-8-8-24), and lower power consumption (1.84V~1.94V)."
That's GDDR5, not DDR5. There's a big difference.
What does faster ram mean? What does faster harddisk mean? What does the fastest proc mean?
Nothing noticeable. If you look at benchmarks super fast ram and over clocking rarely leave you with more than a 2-3% performance improvement, and if you're lucky 10%. But, 10% of already pretty fast leaves you with? Still, nothing noticeable.
DDR3 has a much higher clock frequency, so 8 cycles of latency isn't that bad. Broadly speaking, latencies have stayed the same since DDR, while throughput has increased.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
The "G" is "Graphics".
It's wide-bus RAM that specialises in long sequential reads/writes. It's not as random-access as most other RAM.