Any thoughts guys? I know the standard is starting to make the rounds to the manufacturers and Haswell is said to support it.
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DDR4 in the next MacBook Pro release?
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Hynix started making DDR4 modules last year to send to their "customers". AFAIK, they were the first to start manufacturing it. Very likely that Haswell systems will come with it, but time will tell for certain.
If Haswell systems do come with DDR4, then I suspect that will account for most of the performance gains in those systems over current gen CPU's. Of course, lots of people will attribute the performance gain to the CPU, so I expect there to be a fair bit of confusion in the "blogosphere" or forums in that regard.
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Am I the only one who doesn't really care about the Macbook pro line ever since they went retina and ditched the 17'' models.
Not really. DDR3L has been around for like 2 years and could work on most systems just like that if they allowed the different settings. So basically any desktop and some notebooks.
It also only saves a very small bit of energy. Like 1-2W under load and 0.4W idle. Also no performance difference whatsoever. Not fancy.
DDR4 will be pretty neat for integrated GPUs. Honestly I think with the whole IGP push this year and last they should be ready for DDR4 now and no wait so long. CPUs don't need it but those IGP sure do and it was ready for a while. DRAM manufacturers have mostly been waiting for the go ahead of the CPU/GPU guys.
End of 2014 will be DDR4 arrival.
It also only saves a very small bit of energy. Like 1-2W under load and 0.4W idle. Also no performance difference whatsoever. Not fancy.
DDR4 will be pretty neat for integrated GPUs. Honestly I think with the whole IGP push this year and last they should be ready for DDR4 now and no wait so long. CPUs don't need it but those IGP sure do and it was ready for a while. DRAM manufacturers have mostly been waiting for the go ahead of the CPU/GPU guys.
End of 2014 will be DDR4 arrival.
couple that with the new kaveri design with GDDR5 and the new broadwell igpu arch, with DDR4 we might see a good improvement there
and that 1-2w and 0.4w figures are actually around 20min+ of battery, still the thing that draws more energy is the screen, but anything is welcome
You both are right, DDR4 will be supported in Haswell.
At the moment it is confirmed to be in server versions:
DDR4 could come to consumer Haswells as well, but not at the same time with server.
Or it could not come at all, and we will have to wait until Broadwell. Who knows
At the moment it is confirmed to be in server versions:
DDR4 could come to consumer Haswells as well, but not at the same time with server.
Or it could not come at all, and we will have to wait until Broadwell. Who knows
You both are right, DDR4 will be supported in Haswell.
At the moment it is confirmed to be in server versions:
DDR4 could come to consumer Haswells as well, but not at the same time with server.
Or it could not come at all, and we will have to wait until Broadwell. Who knows
I doubt we'll see it in the next MacBook Pro release - the features listed on the wikipedia sounds like the high end workstations and servers have the most to benefit from it hence if anything the Mac Pro users should be getting excited before us MacBook Pro users.
i have searched and came out with the confirmation that haswell EX will come with DDR4, we still dont have hard intel evidence aside long leaked things on broadwell
so source?
I dont see economical or other technical reasons for this
kk, i still dont see the reason.
the leaked info is from 1 year ago, while its not as solid, intel leaks are usually accurate
and given the ramp up on production for the DDR4 by the 4 manufacturers, and given that broadwell is basically a SoC most of the times, it quite a huge ordeal to change all to DDR3
again please show me that, I havent saw it, crucial and samsung are moving forward with the 2014 plan, the others I have no clue, they are more tight lipped
one thing that I forgot, there are only 3 now, crucial bought elpida, so it remains, crucial, hynix that has an apparent partnership with samsung (which doesnt make much sense), and samsung. So we are only missing hynix here
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