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RDRAM vs. DDR SDRAM
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| Mon May 20, 2002 | 5:06P| PermaLink |
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Well, the described above benchmarks have once again shown us a very familiar situation. The fastest Pentium 4 platforms are all built with RDRAM. Neither the launching of the new i845E and i845G chipsets, nor the introduction of faster 533MHz Quad Pumped Bus changed this state of things.
It looks as if RDRAM would retain its leadership in autumn as well, when Intel officially launches chipsets with DDR333 support. The today's tests of i845G based system unofficially equipped with DDR333 memory showed that 2.7GB/sec bandwidth with lower latency is not enough in most cases to let the system outperform PC800 RDRAM, not to mention PC1066 RDRAM. However, in 2003 RDRAM will anyway be moved aside. The confidential documents we have at our disposal say that next year Intel will start using DDR SDRAM for its performance platforms.
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FULL STORY @
XBITLABS
(http://www.xbitlabs.com/mainboards/i845g-i845e/)
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