While 8GB of GDDR5 DRAM is excessive for the vast majority of applications today, some games actually take advantage of such massive amount of memory. Once Samsung begins mass production of 8Gb GDDR5 memory chips, Nvidia’s partners will be able to introduce GeForce GTX 970/980 graphics cards with 8GB of onboard memory. The new 8Gb memory ICs will operate at various data-rates up to 8MT/s, therefore, will be able to address all possible graphics solutions. Īccording to Chinese VR-Zone web-site, who managed to obtain an excerpt from a Samsung’s document, the world’s largest maker of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) will start to sample 8Gb GDDR5 memory devices in the first quarter of 2015.

For some reason, Nvidia and its allies chose not to follow their competitors and use 4Gb GDDR5 devices to build 8GB graphics cards, but decided to wait till Samsung releases its new 8Gb memory ICs. While the partners of Advanced Micro Devices initiated shipments of 8GB versions of AMD Radeon R9 290X graphics cards last year, they all used 16 4Gb GDDR5 memory chips to build them. Apparently, add-in-boards with 8GB of GDDR5 memory are still in plans, however, their availability will depend on supply of high-performance 8Gb GDDR5 chips. However, none of such graphics adapters showed up last year.

The first rumours about 8GB versions of GeForce GTX 970 and GTX 980 graphics cards emerged sometime in October, 2014.

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