With the new high end cards announced and all utilising the latest GDDR3 memory, you may be forgiven if you overlooked the fact that these uber-expensive, and barely available, boards were not the first to bring the latest GDDR3 memory into consumers hands ? it was in fact the second revision of the performance mainstream board GeForce FX 5700 Ultra that first supported the new memory type. Here Beyond3D takes a look at this newer version of the 5700 Ultra, comparing it against its GDDR-II counterpart.
"Another big facet of GDDR3 is the addition of on-die termination. This helps the RAM to reach higher clock speeds as well as benefiting board manufacturers, as the fact that they no longer need to worry about termination resistor packs and other power supply circuitry relating to the RAM can save them reduce the component count and as a result both complexity of the board and cost." Beyond 3D
"Another big facet of GDDR3 is the addition of on-die termination. This helps the RAM to reach higher clock speeds as well as benefiting board manufacturers, as the fact that they no longer need to worry about termination resistor packs and other power supply circuitry relating to the RAM can save them reduce the component count and as a result both complexity of the board and cost." Beyond 3D
