What is the difference between gddr5 and gddr3

Despite the lower cost, manufacturers are abandoning it due to the low bandwidth. If you are faced with a choice with which memory to take a video card, then the answer is unequivocal: it is better to overpay and take a card with GDDR5 memory.

It will be an order of magnitude faster than the analogue with GDDR3. I have found a bunch that suit me, but i got confused now. I was looking on the internet and found people telling me it has nothing to do with the GPU. Your system RAM has nothing to do with graphics card compatibility. Thx, but now i want to make sure that the GPU is compatible with my motherboard. How can i know what kind of motherboard i have and what is suitable with it. What other things should i consider before buying?

Like the power source or the GPU length? So can i just change the power supply? Is there another way i can contact you if i ever face any problems in the future?

You really helped me a lot. So it is better to use comment form on my blog only. Is the CPU i 3. It says it has 4 logical processors. Yes it is pretty good for gaming even in It is a Quad Core 4 Cores processor with 4 Threads. Yes you can use any graphics card with this processor given that your motherboard has PCIe x16 slot.

PCI-E 3. The bandwidth is also affected by the memory clock speed. As a general rule of thumb, bit is twice as fast as bit. In memory clock speed mHz is twice faster than mHz. But to be honest both these consoles are amazing. Ram can hamper the performance of your GPU. The more powerful the GPU, the more important your ram is. Honestly, not much. In terms of graphics performance these systems are very close to even. I just highlighted why the internal bandwidth was necessary, but latency which increases with bandwidth is relatively unimportant in graphics memory.

This looks a little easier to understand courtesy of Microsoft. Reactions: hellokitty[hk] , misor , Jad Chaar and 1 other person. You learn something everyday. Do you think this is purely a cost reduction move or does this make sense for a console which will be an entertainment hub than a dedicated gaming device.

Samurai99 tbh I couldn't say definitively what the reasoning behind using ESRAM is for the Xbox, other than the facts that Xbox doesn't seem a great an evolution from Xbox seems derivative from my understanding , and that consoles have a much more linear code programming than PC graphics. Without the need for various driver overheads, a standard API, minimal resource management, and moderate graphics horsepower requirement, I could see why the path was taken but doesn't look as interesting as the PS4 solution although my knowledge is largely based on only a few articles such as this one.

I think it is shared. Its unified memory, there is a difference between shared memory and unified memory if I'm not mistaken. In Shared memory the GPU can access the system memory. The PS4 will use an AMD APU, which has already demonstrated that it is very sensitive to memory bandwidth, and given the long life cycle of a console it needs a degree of future proofing by adding as much bandwidth as possible.

Reactions: misor. Can someone help calculeta the effective latency in nanoseconds? Its not really that simple, since GPU memory transactions aren't really as straightforward as system memory. Depends on read and write timings. Reactions: cliffordcooley. I think that the xbox one is going 8gb ddr 3 just for its cpu and the gpu will have its own memory like gb gddr5. If so this could be interesting.

It could out power the ps4 with the shared 8gb gddr5.