There is a chance that some of the GT300-based Fermi devices
might end up with GDDR3 support. The memory controller is 384-bit wide in
Fermi “GTX” single chip 512 shader version, but in some less expensive chips
they will use less memory bandwidth and even GDDR3.
We believe that in entry level, at least in some SKUs GDDR3
makes sense due to its lower price, as GDDR5 is still quite expensive. Fermi
is a very scalable architecture and since the high end chip has 16 clusters and entry
lever ones could end up only with a few clusters, that will make them small but
still powerful enough for the desired market.
Nvidia didn’t mention GDDR4 support for Fermi as it looks
that the memory of choice will be either fast GDDR5 or GDDR3.
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GT300 Fermi supports GDDR3
As well as GDDR5