HardwareCentral heeft een interessant artikel geschreven over Rambus RDRAM geheugen - hoe het werkt, wat de voordelen zijn, wat de nadelen zijn. Het RDRAM geheugen kwam erg goed uit de testen van HardwareCentral. Volgens hen zijn er veel voordelen en zal de prijs ook nog wel omlaaggaan:
In summary, we’re confident that Rambus will continue work on improving the performance of their technology and lowering the prices of RDRAMs. Due to the growing demand in memory bandwidth, the arrival of GHz CPUs, Gigabit Networking, real time audio/video and the ever-growing demands of today’s software, we’ll soon run into memory bandwidth problems. RDRAM is not perfect, but it is currently one of the most promising solutions to bandwidth, latency and propagation delay problems, and is scalable, a distinct advantage. It still is expensive, but that's partly because it's new and the market has not caught on yet. Once more manufacturers start producing RDRAM and it becomes as commonplace as SDRAM now is, we will see its prices dropping, too. [break]Ook Tresh's FiringSquad doet een duit in het zakje en heeft een artikel over Rambus geheugen geschreven. Zij vinden de prijs wel een erg belangrijk nadeel:[/break]RDRAM looks interesting, but price is a huge concern for us. We'd rather not approach performance comparisons until prices fall to reasonable levels (we're not even willing to pay $500 for a CPU).
Basically, we just have to wait a year or two. If RDRAM falls in price and becomes mainstream, we'll do a bunch of comparisons. If not, we can always find more video cards to review and CPUs to overclock. It's unfortunate that RDRAM supplies weren't ready for the 820 release, but launching a new memory standard isn't a very common event (let's see you get seven different DRAM manufacturers to start production in unison).