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Honest question: why is this exciting? I'm using a server with 284gb as I write this, and it's several years old.
by hyperbovine 13y ago
Honest question: why is this exciting? I'm using a server with 284gb as I write this, and it's several years old.
- thirsteh 13y agoThis is 384GB, and it's DDR4.
- vidarh 13y agoThat it's DDR4 might be exciting, but there's plenty of servers around that can take more - several of the servers we have at work can take 512GB or 768GB (though we've not put anywhere near that much in any of them).
- tirant 13y agowith DDR4?
- mdmarra 13y agoThe capacity isn't exciting, the fact that it's DDR4 is.
- code_duck 13y agoIndeed, from the article, > For those in the know, there currently isn't a publicly released CPU/chipset combination that supports DDR4 memory
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- InclinedPlane 13y agoDDR4 is still bleeding edge, and it's about twice as fast as DDR3, so 384GB of DDR4 in a system that could go on sale in the next few months is very impressive in terms of the sort of performance gains that can be expected.
- Theodores 13y agoAre you sure you have 284Gb? 384Gb is 256Gb + 128Gb or 3 * 128Gb - simple powers of two stuff going on here to arrive at 384Gb. 284Gb is 256Gb + 16Gb + 8Gb + 4Gb - or - 256Gb + 32Gb - 4Gb where the 4Gb is used for something such as video ram. That is not simple powers of two.
- justin66 13y ago> Honest question: why is this exciting? DDR4 can be twice as fast as DDR3. The potential of getting that performance is pretty exciting to some people. The BIOS screen pic in the article shows system memory speed of 2134 MT/s, which is equivalent to the high end of DDR3.
- userbinator 13y ago> DDR4 can be twice as fast as DDR3 Emphasis mine. DDR3 was theoretically supposed to be twice as fast as DDR2, but real-world benchmarks showed nowhere near that level of improvement.