DDR3 Here to Stay?

[exar333]

With the massive bandwith available in DDR3, are we going to see this as the de facto standard for some time? Back in the DDR days, the bandwidth really made a difference, but the difference between expensive and run-of-the-mill memory has been shrinking since DDR2 was released and even more so with DDR3.

If we can't really utilize (in a non-server capacity) dual-channel DDR3 at 1600-2000mhz, let alone triple-channel at this speed, when do we expect the next RAM standard to kick in?

 

[Yellowbeard]

Purely a guess but based on CPU roadmaps, I would not expect anyone to even talk about a new memory standard until perhaps 2011.

 

[pjkenned]

Odds are for the next few years DDR3 is going to be fine. The big question is what happens when you have on-package or larabee like GPU's that need memory bandwidth and low latency.