“Speeds you may have thought were impossible” will be possible; nothing less !
AMD will offer within a few months Ryzen 7000 “Raphael” processors, under Zen 4 CPU architecture, which will support DDR5 memory. In a recent webinar Meet the expertsJoseph Tao, Memory Enabling Manager within the company, said the focus would be on memory overclocking.
Here are his propos (spoken around the 35th minute): “Our first DDR5 gaming platform will be the Raphael platform. And one of the great things regarding Raphael is that we’re really going to try and push the envelope on overclocking. I can’t say more at this time, but speeds you thought might be impossible can be achieved with this overclocking spec. »
Joseph Tao does not name it explicitly, but he is no doubt referring to the technology of predefined overclocking profiles called RAMP, an acronym for Ryzen Accelerated Memory Profile ; AMD’s counterpart to Intel’s XMP 3.0. The HWiNFO software had received preliminary support from AMD RAMP earlier this year.
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An AM5 platform exclusively in DDR5?
Note that the processors desktop Ryzen 7000 Rapahel will be the second mainstream AMD chip series to support DDR5 memory. The Ryzen 6000 mobiles, code name Rembrandt, support DDR5-5200 and LPDDR5-6400 memory. On the competitive side, Alder Lake processors officially support DDR5-4800 memory.
Joseph Tao is careful not to put forward values for the Ryzen 7000 Raphael; we therefore do not know at this time which speeds will be officially supported by AMD’s CPUs. What seems certain, however, is that the AM5 socket will be a platform confined to DDR5 support. That is, unlike Intel’s LGA1700 socket, we shouldn’t have a mix of DDR4/DDR5 motherboards.
