DDR vs RAMBUS and GO INTEL shout out.

[MoRRiS]

Before you all flame me, hear me out for a sec.


RAMBUS vs. DDR SDRAM
that's the buzz lately... and not surprizingly, SDRAM is winning.
HOWEVER, I deal closely with a lot of memory system designers, and I have to say-
RAMBUS is a better technology, but it's in its baby stages. If RAMBUS was given the time and effort that has been goin into DRAM for decades, RAMBUS is more advanced. You can't really fairly compare the two, RAMBUS needs a lot of revamping, the kind of changes that DRAM has already had the opportunity to go through, through its decades of widespread universal use. If you compared the early RAMBUS and the first DRAM chips of thr 70's and 80's, who do you think would win?

Just my 2 cents.

I think some people here are a little too strong in their mindsets... especially all those "Intel is the Devil!" people. Sure, they've slacked off, sure AMD is kickin their ass, but did you notice that AMD is the one perpetuating the (atrocious) x86 architecture in their new processor? While Intel is the one saying "ok, we've beaten everything we can out of the x86, time to move on to better architectures"... that's not to say that the pentium 4 is a wonderful processor... However, you guys better be thankin AMD *AND* Intel
-If it wasn't for BOTH of them, we would never have seen the price/performance improvement that we've had over the past year.

Go Intel!!!! Lets hope they can keep AMD pushing processor speeds farther. If Intel goes under too much, then what's the point in AMD pushing so hard for faster computers?

 

[DataFly]

I hate to tell you this, but RAMBUS is a form of DRAM. SDRAM is Synchronous Dynamic Access Memory and RDRAM is RAMBUS Dynamic Access Memory.


:Q

I'm not an expert, but the basic difference is that RAMBUS has a few rows with lots of columns and SDRAM has lots of both. RDRAM is capable of transferring at higher rates (ie, higher bandwidth), but only if the data requested is in the same row. If it is not, then the row that was just searched must be turned off and another turned on, which takes several clock cycles. SDRAM, however, can just switch to a different row within very few cycles.

 

[zuze]

both technologies are good, its just how much they charge for it. If intel would try at least they could make Rambus work up to the price that they charge for all their rambus sh*t(a decent mobo comes out 180~200bucks). I am not talking just intell but also rambus inc itself.

Another point is that rambus is pretty much intel oriented. Even though amd has a rambus license it would take some time to switch to rambus for amd in case ddr fails to become a standard. But so far the companies involved into ram wars are throwing lawsuits at each other. Actually rambus inc. started that first.

Well intel is not opensourcing their epic architechture because they want to be a monopoly. That is why amd wants to continue to support x86 and also it is good market opportunity window that intel might not fill completely with their new processor. To miss such a thing would be dead stupid.