Less than a month ago, we were talking about Qimonda and its jump from GDDR3 to GDDR5, and now it seems those memory chips have found their place. Where? Obviously, in ATI's latest graphics cards! Today, it became official - AMD announced the first commercial implementation of GDDR5, but they won't work only with Qimonda, since Samsung and Hynix have also been mentioned.


Rick Bergman, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Graphics Product Group, AMD, said "The days of monolithic mega-chips are gone. Being first to market with GDDR in our next-generation architecture, AMD is able to deliver incredible performance using more cost-effective GPUs. AMD believes that GDDR5 is the optimal way to drive performance gains while being mindful of power consumption. We’re excited about the potential GDDR5 brings to the table for innovative game development and even more exciting game play."

These being said, I hardly wait to see the first ATI cards using GDDR5, because that day is surely not that far. With NVIDIA's upcoming GPUs probably still missing the technology required to use GDDR5, ATI may finally grab the performance crown...or not, because this is something that remains to be seen.