DDR5 Could Reach The Consumer Market As Early As 2019

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shikamaru317 said:

Am I crazy or was DDR3 the standard much longer than DDR4 is going to be? I seem to recall DDR3 being the standard for at least 7 years, we've only had DDR4 for like 3 years so far. 

On a side note, Nvidia's Volta GPU line in 2018 is supposedly using GDDR6. Now that was a long standard, GDDR5 has been used since 2008, when AMD used it in their HD 4870 GPU.

4k+ gaming and machine learning are very bandwidth intensive.
There is now a real need and push for high bandwidth solutions, so we get them.

I wonder how well AMD's Infinity Fabric will scale under DDR5.