New gddr6 memory costs 70 percent more than gddr5
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The new generation of Nvidia's RTX 20 graphics cards with Turing architecture, brings with it important innovations such as Raytracing and the new GDDR6 memory, with rates of up to 14 Gbps. But this has a consequence and it is this GDDR6 memory will cost manufacturers 70% more than the previous GDDR5.
GDDR6 memory costs 70 percent more than GDDR5
The improvement of benefits of the new GDDR memory that mount the Nvidia RTX 20x graphics cards is evident, and they surpass even the GDDR5X that the Nvida top range of Pascal architecture implemented.
According to reports by 3DCenter.org, in which we can see a price list from the wholesale manufacturer of electronic components Digi-Key, the new 14 Gbps GDDR6 memory chips that are mounted on Turing architecture graphics cards will cost in Around 70% more than the 8 Gbps GDDR5 chips with the same capacity to the manufacturers of these cards.
The section that interests us is, of course, how this will affect the cost of graphics cards for us users. So far GDDR6 memory is available in 14, 13 and 12 Gbps versions for the new cards. Nvidia plans to implement GDDR6 type memories and also GDDR5 for the new RTX 2060 card. This on the one hand will be positive for users who want to acquire this new graphic equipment, since it will have up to 6 variants, which will equip these two types of memory, but also different amounts of cores. In this way we will have several variants of RTX 2060 with disparate performance.
The new RTX 2060 would implement 14 Gbps memory which would add additional cost for these versions of approximately $ 22. So this is what we would save if we compared this same RTX 2060 with GDDR5 chips.
It is sure that this will provoke the discontent of many users, since we see how in each technology jump the prices increase more and more with respect to the previous models with the same distinctive feature. We hope that, with the market already established for these new cards, the prices will once again be the same or very similar to those of the GTX 2060 model. In the meantime, we can only stay alert to how this evolves.
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