Radeon branded DDR3

[dma0991]

Radeon DDR3 RAM modules (translated)

Complete your collection of AMD branded CPU, GPU and RAM. How more AMD can you get?

 

[Saico]

AMD SSD's are the only thing they are missing to complete their fanATIc set.

 

[Ben90]

Wow I hate my life. From the original picture I thought it said a CAS of 5, which is actually pretty good. So I went on newegg and found exactly 7 sticks of RAM that had a CAS latency less than 1333 @ 5.

6 of these sticks basically tied our theoretical 1333 chip, only being 0.1% faster. 1600@6s. The last remaining 2200@7 kit boasted an amazing 6.3ns of CAS latency.

Then I re-read the sticker and realized its 1333@9s. Lame

 

[LOL_Wut_Axel]

Wow I hate my life. From the original picture I thought it said a CAS of 5, which is actually pretty good. So I went on newegg and found exactly 7 sticks of RAM that had a CAS latency less than 1333 @ 5.

6 of these sticks basically tied our theoretical 1333 chip, only being 0.1% faster. 1600@6s. The last remaining 2200@7 kit boasted an amazing 6.3ns of CAS latency.

Then I re-read the sticker and realized its 1333@9s. Lame

Does it matter really? The only application where you see a noticeable performance increase with higher-spec RAM is on file compression, and even there, having higher frequency makes more difference than tighter timings. Overall, RAM faster than 1600MHz CAS 9 makes in most cases under 2% difference in performance.

In any case, I wouldn't be surprised if these used low-end ICs and were over-priced.

 

[Mr Vain]

That's right; AMD is apparently making DDR3 memory modules now!

How about a few of these sticks to go with you Bulldozer CPU & HD7000 series GPU cards?

http://www.tcmagazine.com/tcm/news/hardware/40081/amd-starts-selling-radeon-branded-ddr3-memory

http://www.amd.com/US/PRODUCTS/TECHNOLOGIES/RADEON-MEMORY/Pages/system-memory.aspx

 

[Tsavo]

No 4GB parts, and no 1866 parts?

Odd.

 

[Mr Vain]

No 4GB parts, and no 1866 parts?

Odd.

If it makes money, it won’t be long before you get the full range!

 

[Rifter]

repost

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2183503

Thread merged. Thanks for the heads up.

Moderator jvroig

 

[jvroig]

Merged MrVain's thread into here instead of just locking it to retain his links into the "main" Radeon RAM thread.

Moderator jvroig

 

[Mr Vain]

Merged MrVain's thread into here instead of just locking it to retain his links into the "main" Radeon RAM thread.

Moderator jvroig

Cheers

 

[formulav8]

1600mhz @ 11-11-11 timings? Thats umm, not cheery at all. Why are they not bringing out 2133mhz or something that would really make a big difference for their APU's over the mainstream clocked stuff....:thumbsdown:

 

[jvroig]

Because I doubt they are doing this for that reason.

Most likely reason is a partnership with the manufacturer that gets them (AMD) a little cut of the profits (very little, considering how low-margin the memory business already is) for practically no work except for producing stickers and sending them to that manufacturer partner.

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if it was the idea of the manufacturer in the first place, and AMD accepted because any amount of money for practically free is good enough to ink.

 

[Saico]

While baffling, the move to sell its own-branded memory makes some sense. High performance DDR3 memory kits sold in the market today that operate at DDR3-1600 rely on Intel eXtreme Memory Profiles (XMP), a proprietary SPD extension by Intel to let users set the marketed speeds easily. AMD platform motherboards don't support XMP, leaving it at an obvious disadvantage. Radeon-branded memory use JEDEC profiles for 1600 MHz, along with certified timings and voltages to run stable and perform optimally. It might also be using AMD's own SPD extension called "Black Edition profiles", but CPU-Z doesn't seem to be able to spot that. Pictured above is the Entertainment 2 GB module, which uses AMD-branded memory chips. In Japan, the 2 GB module is priced at the equivalent of US $20. Other pricing information is unknown for the moment.

20$ for 2GB? "Black Edition profiles"?

 

[nenforcer]

I'm actually surprised they took this long to do something like this.

AMD has long been involved with RAM having formed Spansion, a NOR flash ram supplier in partnership with Fujitsu.

AMD is also the leading force behind the design of memory technologies like GDDR3 and GDDR5, having been the first to implement memory controllers for each I believe.

Here's hoping the AMD chips are something unique and not just a relabeled Samsung DDR3 chip.

 

[Wanescotting]

Interesting....this makes me happy, although I did just buy new ram...any excuse to go to 16gb

 

[Rifter]

anyone know who makes the IC's?

 

[Idontcare]

No 4GB parts, and no 1866 parts?

Odd.

Yeah I would expect a much wider selection of parts to be available on the eve of a bulldozer launch.

 

[jvroig]

From AnandTech Pipeline: AMD To Enter RAM Market with Radeon-branded DDR3

The more interesting fact is that the actual DRAM chips are also made by AMD. AMD hasn't been into the DRAM business before (or if they have, they have been very quiet about it), so this is a surprise. However, it is possible that the chips have just been rebranded and thus been manufactured by another company, but unfortunately we don't know any details at this point.

At first I thought, "what, they actually went ahead and manufactured the DRAM?", but then it seems AT quickly made a 180-degree turn to say it could quite possibly have been just rebranded because they have no details yet (if so, why say AMD made the DRAM in the first place?)

In summary, AT picked up on this, but says nothing we already haven't talked about.

 

[jvroig]

And now we've got the DailyTech scoop on the Radeon RAM. Still no new info, except perhaps mentioning Canadian and Japanese retailers already selling them.

 

[Chiropteran]

Apparently ATI has made & sold RAM at least once before.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2939