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With all these computer technologies constantly getting better: whether it be processors, integrated chipsets, and even solid-state memory, I haven't seen RAM get a boost lately. Does anyone think RAM will go to DDR4 in the near future? Or something that will make it even better as DDR3? |
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Other than capacity RAM has been on a standstill, the reason for this is that the DDR4 memory controllers on CPUs from AMD and Intel were delayed. The technology exist but no CPU is compatible. And now it seems the new 2nd gen core i7 still don't support DDR4 so RAM will probably not progress any further for a long time. Then again RAM speed is becoming less and less valuable, and timings becoming more and more valuable. With SSDs and cheaper VRAM the normal RAM sticks are not used as much anymore. I've got more VRAM than normal RAM and they run at 4 times the speed so I'm just waiting for technology that makes it possible to run programs in the VRAM instead. |
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I was going to say almost the same thing as Yarvaxea. I've been playing with RAM DISKS but the speed increase have been negligible in today's pcs. Moore's Law is probably going to die soon. I predict the next trend will be new forms of Distributed Computing utilizing cloud services. In other words, let's use ALL active Apple Devices on iCloud as an example. If you could harness the computing power of ALL those devices & share it system wide, that would be millions of computers working as a whole, not individually. The same would go for RAM, millions of RAM chips acting as a whole. |
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there isn't much of a market push for faster RAM since many applications do not benefit from it at the consumer level. If you look at benchmarks, going from a speed of like ddr3 1333 to ddr3 2100 will only net you around a 0-3% performance boost on a select few programs that are more workstation related. we are just at a point where memory bandwidth is not a bottleneck. |
