In Anand's vorige artikel had je misschien al hun gebruikelijke stapel benchmarks gemist, treur niet want nu hebben ze een tweede deel geschreven waar ze genoeg benchmarks in hebben zitten . In tegenstelling tot hun vorige artikel over Rambus komt dit niet over als reclame: ze zien pas hoop voor Rambus zodra DDR het niet meer haalt, iets wat waarschijnlijk nog wel enkele jaren kan duren:
There is no question to it, DDR SDRAM will be the memory technology of choice upon its introduction in both Pentium III and Athlon systems later this year. The real question is, how long will DDR SDRAM be around in the future?
Let the analysts play with the crystal balls, for you, the end user, what really matters is what will give you the best bang for your buck. Right now, that's obviously a BX platform running at 133MHz, but in the future you may find yourself lusting after a higher performing DDR solution.
[...] This is why we made it a point to mention that, in spite of the lower pin count of RDRAM, currently DDR SDRAM is the way to go because it offers all of the bandwidth benefits of RDRAM with the low latency of SDRAM that we're used to, without the price premium of RDRAM.
In the future, when the pin count of 64-bit DDR SDRAM becomes an issue and adding a second channel isn't exactly feasible, then RDRAM will perhaps be primed and ready to take over, but not until then. That was the intended aim of our first article on Rambus.