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DDR2-800 has 6.4GB/s bandwidth...
... per channel, which means that common dual channel motherboards have 12.8GB/s theoretical bandwidth with DDR2-800 PC2-6400 RAM modules.So, how comes 9.6GB/s is six times 6.4GB/s ?
Also, future Intel Nehalem high end motherboards are supposed to have quad-channel DDR3 and DDR3-1600 PC3-12800 modules have a theoretical bandwidth of 12.8GB/s per channel. So on a dual channel motherboard that's 25.6GB/s and on a quad-channel it would be 51.2GB/s ....
sigh...
...with tons of new hardware and less and less software to utilize it, for a common PC user, I doubt people will be thrilled with the bandwidth... It's nice for server environment and some professionals, but the rest of the folk... Not to mention all new boards and stuff even for DDR3...Dull as a horses' b...
PS3 has XDR..
Doesn't the PS3 have 256Mb of XDR and 256Mb of DDR3?Add a new comment: