Samsung has simply introduced a brand new GDDR7 reminiscence chip that might make the rumored 24GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 a actuality. The corporate’s new 24Gb DRAM offers you 3GB on a single chip, quite than the standard 2GB, that means a graphics card may accommodate 50 % extra reminiscence while not having a brand new format, or certainly a wider reminiscence bus.
One prime candidate for this new reminiscence is the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080, which is rumored to be coming with 16GB of VRAM in its first guise, however with a 24GB RTX 5080 coming later. Nevertheless, in contrast to the originally-mooted RTX 4080 12GB and 16GB, this 24GB card is rumored to have the identical core spec because the 16GB RTX 5080, simply with extra reminiscence, and this new Samsung chip would make that doable.
We’ve recognized for some time that 24Gb (3GB) GDDR7 chips had been within the works, however Samsung is the primary firm to formally announce a product. The brand new reminiscence is manufactured utilizing Samsung’s fifth-generation 10nm course of, which the corporate says “permits cell density to extend by 50% whereas sustaining the identical package deal dimension because the predecessor.” On this case, the predecessor is the 16Gb (2GB) GDDR7 chip that Samsung introduced in 2023.
Samsung additionally claims that the brand new reminiscence can hit speeds of as much as 40Gbps, and says it may be “additional enhanced” to run at as much as 42.5Gbps. The corporate can also be eager to level out that Samsung’s new reminiscence tech sees it “extending past the normal purposes of graphics DRAM in graphics playing cards, gaming consoles, and autonomous driving,” with Samsung anticipating it for use in information facilities and AI workstations.
We’re not anticipating to see reminiscence speeds as excessive as 42.5Gb/s, however current rumors have put the RTX 5080 VRAM velocity at 32Gbps, which is over 52% faster than the 21Gbps GDDR6X VRAM used within the RTX 4090. If true, this might imply the RTX 5080 has a complete reminiscence bandwidth of 1,024GB/s, regardless of it being rumored to solely have a comparatively slim 256-bit interface.
In fact, all this speak concerning the RTX 5080 is just primarily based on hypothesis and rumor proper now, however we do now know for positive that 3GB GDDR7 chips are being made, so Nvidia may make a 16GB and 24GB RTX 5080 if that’s its plan.
Within the meantime, take a look at our information to the very best graphics card if you wish to know which gaming GPU you can purchase on your finances proper now, and you may as well learn our information to the RTX 5090, the place we spherical up all the most recent rumors about Nvidia’s new flagship GPU. If the most recent leaks are to be believed, then we could properly additionally see the RTX 5070 introduced on the identical time, with the RTX 5060 following shortly afterward.
