Micron has new memories. This will improve the market situation

The American company Micron officially enters the game with 3-gigabyte GDDR7 chips and thus joins Samsung and SK hynix, which have already presented their variants with this capacity. The manufacturer announced a new version of DRAM memory on its blog, confirming that these systems achieve a throughput of 36 Gb/s.

The new chips are about 12.5% ​​faster than the first GDDR7 modules, which started at 32 Gb/s. Still, the Micron doesn’t take the lead in terms of pure speed. Competitive solutions from Samsung can accelerate up to 42.5 Gb/s, and SK hynix offers versions up to 40 Gb/s and announces subsequent generations targeting 48 Gb/s.

While the numbers are impressive, current graphics cards use slower chips. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 works with 30 Gb/s memory, while GeForce RTX 5090 goes down to 28 Gb/s. Even with overclocking we end up at around 34Gbps. And in the AMD Radeon RX 9000 series we are talking about the older GDDR6 standard with a maximum of 20 Gb/s.

But while there is currently not much demand for extremely fast GDDR7 modules in the consumer segment, this will change with the arrival of the next generation. It doesn’t necessarily have to be the GeForce RTX 6000, but we might as well see it in the GeForce RTX 5000 SUPER models. As long as they finally hit the market, because the Greens keep postponing their premiere, focusing on AI accelerators.

In any case, much more important than the speed itself is the fact that a third supplier of 3-gigabyte modules appears on the market. This means greater flexibility in the supply chain and reduced risk of downtime. NVIDIA already uses 3GB sticks from Samsung and SK hynix, and the inclusion of Micron could help alleviate hardware availability issues in stores.