Production of SK Hynix’s GDDR7 memory will begin in the first part of 2025, a quarter behind its competitors.
The first GDDR7 memory modules appeared at the beginning of the year and some manufacturers such as Samsung and Micron have scheduled the start of production for the end of 2024. During GTC 2024, Korean companies officially presented the new modules, giving us a first look at the potential of next-gen memories.
In this scenario, SK Hynix played a waiting role, showing off its plans at Computex 2024 and announcing the start of its production lines in the first quarter of 2025. But When will GDDR7 memories arrive? Let’s try to understand it.
Features of SK Hynix GDDR7 modules
SK Hynix has already revealed what their GDDR7 chips can achieve speeds up to 40 Gbps, with a bandwidth of up to 160 GB/s for each module. The GDDR7 standard will have a base speed of 32 Gbps, with a bandwidth of 128 GB/s per module. If these numbers hold true, we can expect up to a 25% increase in bandwidth with future releases of GDDR7. The memories will be available in different denominations, starting from a base of 16 GB to get to a maximum of 24 GB.
From the point of view of technical specifications, SK Hynix modules do not differ much from those of the competition and in particular from Samsung’s GDDR7 memories.
When they will arrive?
The adoption of GDDR7 modules will lead to a concrete increase in performance, profoundly impacting the consumer market also from an efficiency point of view.
In particular, their first appearance could occur with the launch of next generation graphics cards such as NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 based on Blackwell architecture and new ones AMD RDNA 4.
As we mentioned, Samsung and Micron will begin production in the latter part of 2024, while SK Hynix will postpone it to the beginning of 2025: in this period of time the first products with GDDR7 memories could therefore begin to emerge.
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