Rambus XDR

[RavenGuard]

Generally, you'd hear "More RAM is better than faster RAM." Now, I'm sure this is true, but like anything, there are exceptions.

Here's a Rambus XDR slideshow

Looking at that, sure XDR seems impressive, but what difference would it really make? For the cost of XDR you could have much more ddr2 or ddr3 memory, and I am willing to bet the performance difference will be minimal, and for purposes such as gaming I would believe the ddr2 or ddr3 would win simply because there is more space in the memory.

What do you guys think?



Nobody? heelloooo?

 

[myocardia]

Rambus is crap. It was a few years ago, when Intel was pushing it, and it is now. BTW, my favorite part of that slideshow was the "up to 4GB of system memory possibility". There are already a considerable amount of people registered on anandtech who are using 8GB of RAM. Besides that, you can already buy DDR3 that's as fast as they were saying Rambus is capable of, data throughput-wise.

 

[lopri]

Did it mention its latency? Rambus was (is?) known for terrible latencies while achieving high bandwidth. And thermal characteristics? Up to 4GB is surely discouraging.