News - AMD launches range of Radeon-branded DDR3 memory

[HEXUS]

Radeon memory modules to go with your AMD CPU, GPU and chipset?

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[kalniel]

Because DRAM is a profitable market at the moment.. oh, hang on..

[Biscuit]

Those timings look terrible :/

[Blackmage]

The speed is pretty slow too, llano needs at least 1600mhz or it hurts the graphics.

[kingpotnoodle]

How can you call something "Ultra Pro Gaming" with 11-11-11 timings...

Oh well, I'm going to take my "Rally Super Edition" Robin Reliant for a spin on the moors.

[danroyle]

11-11-11 is awful for 1600mhz that seeems like a real smart move they'll sell loads

[Yosh]

Ultra Pro or Ultra Fail?

[scaryjim]

I'd guess this is targetted at OEMs rather than consumers, and given that a lot of OEMs will stick the dirt cheapest DDR3 they can get their hands on in their machines, this actually might not be a bad plan by AMD to get half-decent RAM in OEM boxes: can you imagine an A6-3650 box with 2GB of 1066MHz DDR3? By making Radeon-branded modules AMD are saying "this is the absolute minimum spec memory you should be using with our CPUs". Sure, it's not going to win memory performance awards, but it very strongly pushes OEMs to providing AMD boxes with 4GB RAM, at 1333MHz for casual use machines and 1600MHz for "gaming" machines (and of course GPUs have always run with looser memory timings than CPUs so those loose 11-11-11 latencies probably won't hurt gaming performance on an APU)...

[tbaracu]

good move, because all DDR3 makers was doing tweakings and top models only for Intel, AMD in last times didn't succeed toto make them listen and be to be gentlemen