Anticipate GPU Upgrades in Early 2024 With the Launch of Micron’s GDDR7

Anticipate next-generation graphics playing cards to hold GDDR7 reminiscence.

On Wednesday, Micron’s CEO mentioned the corporate will launch the upgraded GPU reminiscence subsequent 12 months. “We plan to introduce our next-generation G7 product on our industry-leading 1-beta node within the first half of calendar 12 months 2024,” Sanjay Mehrotra mentioned in an earnings name.

The corporate is already a significant provider for GDDR6 and GDDR6X video reminiscence, which have each been utilized in graphics playing cards from AMD and Nvidia. So there’s a robust probability the GPU makers, together with newcomer Intel, incorporate the know-how for his or her subsequent graphics playing cards. (Samsung is one other developer of GDDR reminiscence, together with GDDR7.)

Micron hasn’t detailed its personal GDDR7 tech but, however the upgraded reminiscence ought to assist upcoming graphics playing cards retailer and show detailed photographs and textures at greater resolutions—1440p, 4K, and past.

In Samsung’s case, the corporate’s GDDR7 reminiscence has been tipped to ship switch charges at 36Gbps, up from the 24Gbps of GDDR6. Reminiscence designer Cadence provides that GDDR7 will use PAM3 encoding in order that the reminiscence can hit 36Gbps per pin. On the draw back, the encoding would require adoption of recent reminiscence controllers and interfaces between chips.

Though GRR7 has been tipped for subsequent 12 months, Nvidia signifies it’d delay launching next-gen RTX graphics playing cards for shoppers. In an up to date roadmap revealed earlier this week, the corporate confirmed that its successor to the Ada Lovelace structure—used within the newest RTX 4000 collection—gained’t arrive till someday in 2025, as a substitute of the anticipated fall 2024 timeframe.