In navolging van Creative Labs heeft ook Guillemot een GeForce 256 kaart met Double Data Rate SDRAM aangekondigd. De verdubbelde RAM throughput kan errug interessant worden, vooral bij true colour op hoge resoluties (waar memory bandwidth op dit moment al een zwaar probleem is). Hier een paar snippers uit de press release bij 3DGPU.com:
Montreal - Monday, October 4, 1999- Pushing technology to new levels as ever, Guillemot now presents 3D Prophet DDR™, a 3D accelerator featuring NVIDIA’s new GeForce 256™ DDR design with DDR RAM. DDR RAM is a breakthrough memory type that boosts the speed of complex graphics operations and achieves higher bandwidth. By complementing 3D Prophet with 3D Prophet DDR in its hardcore gaming range, Guillemot is providing the perfect gaming solution for top configuration PCs, creating a new platform for those who want absolute power and an unrivaled gaming experience.[...] DDR RAM DDR RAM stands for Double Data Rate RAM (as opposed to SDR RAM, which stands for Single Data Rate). DDR RAM doubles the data transfer rate per clock. It can go faster because it performs two instructions per RAM clock instead of a single instruction for SDR.
[...] Price and Availability 3D Prophet DDR™ will be available before Christmas at a retail price about $ 100 more than the 3D Prophet.
