Micron reveals GDDR6X memory with up to 21 Gbps speeds

[WYP]

A 50% speed increase over commonly used GDDR6 modules.



Read more about Micron's GDDR6X memory and RTX 3090 listing.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

It's unusual that they managed to keep this tightly under wraps. We're only a month away from Micron's biggest use case for the new memory modules and it's only just been confirmed now. A lot of us didn't believe the rumours because there was no other word that it was feasible to increase the speeds by so much over GDDR6, which hasn't been out that long.

 

[Dicehunter]

It's unusual that they managed to keep this tightly under wraps. We're only a month away from Micron's biggest use case for the new memory modules and it's only just been confirmed now. A lot of us didn't believe the rumours because there was no other word that it was feasible to increase the speeds by so much over GDDR6, which hasn't been out that long.

The 2080 Ti which has GDDR6, In a little over 1 month came out nearly 2 years ago so we are due a nice memory bump

 

[Avet]

It's unusual that they managed to keep this tightly under wraps. We're only a month away from Micron's biggest use case for the new memory modules and it's only just been confirmed now. A lot of us didn't believe the rumours because there was no other word that it was feasible to increase the speeds by so much over GDDR6, which hasn't been out that long.

There were no events this year. Nvidia decided to keep quiet. Micron just followed.