SK Hynix has announced that its GDDR7 memory solutions will be faster and larger than the competition. Though we will have to wait a bit longer to see them as they are not releasing this year.
The Korean memory manufacturer has unveiled that its GDDR7 chips will soon enter mass production, offering a noticeable capacity and speed bump. The brand claims that it will offer better products than its competitors. However, unlike Samsung and Micron, which plan to release their GDDR7 products this year, SK Hynix revealed that its offering will come later, entering mass production in Q1 2025.
For instance, SK Hynix presented higher-density chips boasting 16Gb (2GB) and 24Gb (3GB) capacities. The brand also aims to hit higher operating frequencies, allowing these chips to reach up to 40Gbps speed. In other words, much faster than the 32Gbps announced by the competition. That said, having the fastest solution doesn’t automatically make you the top vendor. For example, Nvidia is seemingly going with 28Gbps GDDR7 with its upcoming RTX 5000 GPUs.
In addition to this bandwidth doubling over GDDR6, SK Hynix also claims a 40% improvement in power efficiency. Not bad for a generational jump. GDDR still has some good days in front of it, so HBM will have to wait a bit longer.
With Intel joining AMD and Nvidia in releasing the best graphics cards, demand for GDDR7 may reach higher levels than GDDR6 and GDDR6X. Furthermore, like its predecessors, we should have faster and maybe larger GDDR7 chips coming later as the technology and manufacturing matures. For the time being, the brand indicates that it has working prototypes for validation purposes by its partners.