By Parm Mann 21st May, 2008
Details regarding both NVIDIA's and AMD's forthcoming next-gen GPUs are beginning to pour in thick and fast. Today, AMD has officially confirmed that it's next-generation Radeon graphics products, namely the HD 4800 series, will feature Graphics Double Data Rate version 5 (GDDR5) memory. AMD, tooting its own horn somewhat, states its implementation of GDDR5 to be yet another of its industry firsts, alongside being "first to bring a unified shader architecture to market, the first to support Microsoft DirectX® 10.1 gaming, first to lower process nodes like 55nm, the first with integrated HDMI with audio, and the first with double-precision floating point calculation support." According to AMD's internal testing, GDDR5 has been found to support data rates at up to five times that of GDDR3 and four times that of GDDR4.
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