Dual Channel DDR on P4

[joohang]

Can you imagine the performance of such beast?

I wouldn't mind getting a P4 if there is a Crush for P4 released. Lower latency and even higher bandwidth than Rambus!

 

[Remnant2]

actually, the RDRAM activists would tell you that the performance would still be below dual channel RDRAM, since RDRAM has a much higher effective bandwidth even though its' theoretical is lower.

However, I think that bandwidth advantage would be negated by dual-channel DDR's latency advantages. So yes, it would be interesting, but since Nvidia is the only game in town that's going with 2 channel DDR, and Intel won't give them a license for the P3 or P4 buses, what are ya gonna do?

 

[joohang]

I would imagine that the DDR bandwidth would be even higher.

Isn't RDRAM quad-pumped 100 MHz? (or is it not synchronous to the P4's GTL+ bus?)

 

[GTaudiophile]

Whatever man, Intel got CRUSHed today!

 

[squirrelman]

I remember reading somewhere a while back that Serverworks was working on a dual channel pc1600 only chipset for the p4. That might be nice, but since its from serverworks it would probably make the Tyan 760mp board look cheap.

 

[Bluga]

<< such beast? >>



what r u talking about?

 

[BFG10K]

RDRAM will still have more bandwidth (provided the DDR RAM isn't clocked too high) but DDR RAM will have much lower latencies. I would love to see side by side benchmarks of the two memory types when paired with a P4.

 

[pen^2]

um... how is this thing gonna be so much more better than athlon 4 + dual channel DDR setup? care to explain?

 

[joohang]

<< um... how is this thing gonna be so much more better than athlon 4 + dual channel DDR setup? care to explain? >>


Hey sir, I never said that.

 

[joohang]

<< what r u talking about? >>


Just wondering what it'd be like to have P4 with dual channel DDR.

 

[AndyHui]

I'd like to know too. Check out towards the end of this thread.