Samsung announces first 16GB DDR4 Memory Module for Server Systems

Through a press release, Samsung officially announced the first module of DDR4 memory intended for high density server systems. We speak of course of a RDIMM module, assembled with chips built with 30 nanometer manufacturing process and a maximum capacity of 16 GB .

 

Wanhoon Hong , Executive Vice President of Memory Division, Samsung, said:

"With the launch of these new high density modules DDR4, Samsung supports the development of the next generation of IT Systems High Performance Green. Simultaneously with the launch of new memories for Server Systems, the company works to the introduction of new products with chips to 20 nanometers. "

 

DDR4 modules will be available in 8GB and cuts will reduce energy consumption by about 40% compared to the "old" DDR3. The voltage I / O it goes from 1.35 to 1.20 volts and within a year, says the company always, we will also increase the operating frequencies up to nearly double the current 1600 MHz base frequency of the DDR3.

AMD Piledriver FX: faster than 20% of the Bulldozer

According to reports from Softpedia.com, the next CPU Desktop AMD FX architecture Piledriver will be at least 15% faster than the bulldozer FX solutions. The site dares actually a 20%, a consideration made ​​based on a demonstration by AMD that saw in front of a bulldozer FX-8150 CPU and APU Trinity (think of a 5800K-A10). To have a certain uniformity in the tests, the FX-8150 has been overclocked to 3.8 GHz, disabling two modules for a total of 4 threads.

 

The performance of Trinity were best, with a maximum deviation of 15%, despite the FX-8150 had access to a cache of 8 MB L3 (absent of Trinity). If we think then that will have a significant FX Piledriver L3 Cache, Softpedia calculations may be accurate.

Finally, considering that the AMD FX-8350 will be proposed by the company with an operating frequency higher (you can read AMD FX 8350will have a frequency of 4 GHz ), the performance could be even better, allowing AMD to catch up with Intel .