Recounting the story of how they went from 4GB to 8GB, Adam was actually at Gearbox (Borderlands), with Randy Pitchford, President of Gearbox, telling him, “If you go with 4GB of GDDR5, you are ...

XFX Radeon R9 290X Double Dissipation 4GB GDDR5 Review . Ryan Martin Follow on X Send an email June 20, 2014 Last Updated: February 28, 2018. 6 562 . Introduction.

GDDR6 is essentially GDDR5 ported to DDR4 cells. So GDDR5 stuck around for so long because DDR3 did. GDDR3 (the GDDR version of DDR2) did similar, and as mpat points out, had a similar lifespan.

SK Hynix displayed its next-generation HBM2 memory chips at GTC 2016 last week. The space savings and density improvements over GDDR5 and HBM are quite significant.