InQuest heeft een erg interessant artikel gepost waarin zij de prestaties van DDR geheugen (op Micron Samurai DDR chipset) vergelijken met die van RDRAM (op Intel 840 chipset). De resultaten waren zeer interessant: in bijna elk geval was het DDR geheugen sneller dan het RDRAM geheugen (verder exact dezelfde configuratie gebruikt). Wat wel opviel was dat bij gebruik van CAD applicaties onder Windows NT het RDRAM net ietsje sneller bleek (verschil 0.8%). Bij de 'normale' applicaties bleek het DDR geheugen (soms veel) sneller.
In the overwhelming majority of cases, DDR exceeds the performance of dual channel RDRAM, at times by a very substantial margin. There are several cases where there is very little difference, and finally a few where the 840 pulls ahead by a small margin. Based on this rather broad mix of applications and benchmarks, Micron’s single channel (64-bit) DDR implementation must be declared the performances winner over Intel’s dual channel RDRAM platform. Even with these impressive results, the performance potential of DDR is still not entirely exhausted. We already know that at least one vendor (nVidia for X-Box) plans to produce a high-speed 128-bit implementation of DDR main memory for desktop computing. Perhaps others will implement dual channel DDR (or 128-bit DDR) solutions as well. We have every reason to expect further performance improvements from such solutions.
Laat nu maar komen, die Athlon mainboards met DDR chipsets...