Tuesday, August 2nd 2022
AMD Ryzen 7000 Shown with DDR5-6400 Memory Speed
An alleged AMD Ryzen 7000 pre-release sample was shown running DDR5-6400 memory speed, which is already a 23 percent memory overclock on top of the DDR5-5200 native memory clock speed support. We've known since April that the Ryzen 7000 "Zen 4" processors are being designed with a focus on good memory overclocking headroom, and this is the first instance of an enthusiast-class memory speed on this platform. The feat was pulled off by Toppc, a professional overclocker affiliated with MSI.
The most interesting aspect of this feat is the density. The machine is shown featuring 64 GB of memory—something currently only doable with 32 GB quad-rank (double-sided) DIMMs; or by populating all four slots on the motherboard with 16 GB dual-rank (single-sided) DIMMs, or a 2DPC setup, which would make this feat all the more impressive. The CPU-Z screenshot by Toppc reveals a DRAM clock of 3202 MHz (DDR5-6404), and timings of 32-38-38-96. The Socket AM5 Ryzen 7000 desktop processors only support DDR5 memory type (no backwards-compatibility with DDR4), and AMD states that since it is betting solely on DDR5 (with no DDR4 sidewheels), enthusiasts can expect a good memory overclocking experience.
Sources:
Toppc (bilibili), HXL (Twitter), VideoCardz
The most interesting aspect of this feat is the density. The machine is shown featuring 64 GB of memory—something currently only doable with 32 GB quad-rank (double-sided) DIMMs; or by populating all four slots on the motherboard with 16 GB dual-rank (single-sided) DIMMs, or a 2DPC setup, which would make this feat all the more impressive. The CPU-Z screenshot by Toppc reveals a DRAM clock of 3202 MHz (DDR5-6404), and timings of 32-38-38-96. The Socket AM5 Ryzen 7000 desktop processors only support DDR5 memory type (no backwards-compatibility with DDR4), and AMD states that since it is betting solely on DDR5 (with no DDR4 sidewheels), enthusiasts can expect a good memory overclocking experience.
24 Comments on AMD Ryzen 7000 Shown with DDR5-6400 Memory Speed
On Zen 3 you could overclock RAM like crazy but best performance was at 3600/3800 due to Infinity Fabric maxing out at 1800-1900 MHz on almost all chips, very rarely 2000.
Since this was done by a pro overclocker, I'm going to assume that an overclock to DDR5-6400 on Zen 4 is equivalent to at least DDR4-4000 (1:1) on Zen 3 in terms of rarity and stability.
Just turned xmp on and was good to go...
Timings might not be the most impressive, but haven't bothered trying to oc any further...
www.techpowerup.com/review/intel-core-i5-12400f/20.html