SK Hynix shows gddr6 chip

Memory manufacturer SK Hynix has shown 8Gbit chips of its gddr6 memory at Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference. The company also reports that there will be 16Gbit chips, which will double the memory density compared to gddr5.

The German websites HardwareLuxx and Heise captured the chips, wafer and specifications that SK Hynix showed at the GTC in photos. The memory manufacturer demonstrated the 8Gbit or 1GB chip that was previously announced in a press release, but also shows that 16Gbit or 2GB chips are coming. These chips allow video cards to come with large amounts of memory or require fewer chips per module to achieve the same capacity.

A few weeks ago, SK Hynix already announced that it expects the first video cards with gddr6 memory to appear in early 2018. Gddr6 will probably be used on mainstream video cards. The memory is not as fast as hbm2, but is cheaper to make. At the time, SK Hynix also mentioned that the gddr6 memory gets a speed of 16Gbit/s and that the consumption is ten percent lower than with gddr5.

The fact that the memory manufacturer is demonstrating gddr6 memory at Nvidia’s event seems to indicate that the maker of GeForce cards is going to adopt the memory. Nividia may provide cards with its new Volta GPU with the faster memory. Top models with Volta will use hbm2.

Photos: HardwareLuxx.de