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00:57 – RAM frequency vs. latency?
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Succinct question for the
Succinct question for the next show:
Samsung just announced mass production of 32GB SO-DIMM modules. What’s usually the time period between a mass production of a DDR chip and any related product release e.g. a RAM stick?
I couldn’t find that information online in reasonable time and I believe you have a lot of experience in this matter. How long do we have to wait for slim 64GB RAM laptops or RAM stick we could purchase? 2-3 months? Half a year? Or maybe it’s going to come next year?
Many thanks!
misku
You guys upload the podcasts
You guys upload the podcasts to soundcloud, can you start doing that with the mailbags? Thanks!
Re: RAM frequency vs.
Re: RAM frequency vs. latency?
Crucial prepared a nice table that explains the
numerical relationship between the two:
https://pics.crucial.com/wcsstore/CrucialSAS/images/campaigns/c3-speed-vs-latency-table.png
Thus, even though the CAS latency is much longer,
the shorter clock cycle time more than compensates
for the larger CAS latency setting.
If you want to apply that to
If you want to apply that to different RAM you could use this equation.
CL/Mhz * 1000 = true latency in ns.
There’s a more accurate equation but dividing the CAS setting by the speed and multiplying it by 1k is normally more than enough to know what RAM has the lower real world latency.
p.s. Just to clarify, in
p.s. Just to clarify, in that table prepared by Crucial,
“true latency” = clock cycle time x CAS latency,
e.g.:
2,666 MHz double data rate / 2 = 1,333 MHz DRAM clock rate
1 / 1,333,000,000 Hz = 0.75 nanoseconds
0.75 ns x 18 clock cycles = 13.5 ns
As such, Column Address Strobe (“CAS”) is
measured in the number of clock cycles per strobe.
Thus, 18 clock cycles @ 0.75 nanoseconds per clock cycle
= 13.5 nanoseconds of “true latency”.
Hope this helps.
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