One of the most important launches to happen at CES this year was New line of Nvidia GPUs. Giant artificial intelligence RTX 50-series GPUs announcedwhich provides a huge performance boost. One of its key components, GDDR7 memory, is manufactured by Samsung.
Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs use Samsung GDDR7 memory chips.
Yesterday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirmed that its new RTX 50-series GPUs use GDDR7 VRAM memory chips and the first batch of GPUs will use memory chips from Samsung Electronics. In a conversation with reporters, he said: “The GeForce RTX 50 series will use GDDR7 products from various partners. The first is Samsung Electronics.»
On January 6, the day the new GPU was announced, Jensen incorrectly stated that the new GPUs use Micron’s GDDR7 memory. In a conversation with reporters, he also said that he did not know that Samsung and SK Hynix even produce graphics memory chips. However, this is not true. So, after a couple of days, he corrected his mistake.
Samsung was the first to announce GDDR7 memory. Company completed development of GDDR7 memory chips in mid-2023. The chips were likely put into production in the second half of last year. Final GDDR7 Specification Published at the beginning of last year.
The new chips provide throughput up to 1.5 TB/s, which is 40% higher than GDDR6 chips. Their output speed is 32 Gbps, which was achieved using the PAM3 (pulse amplitude modulation) signaling method.
Nvidia is currently the global leader in the AI accelerator and GPU segments. Its latest AI chips use HBM3E memory chips from Micron and SK Hynix. Bye Samsung also produces HBM3E chips.his chips did not receive Nvidia certificationwhich led to large losses in Samsung’s semiconductor division.