Saturday, May 22nd 2021
AMD Socket AM5 an LGA of 1,718 Pins with DDR5 and PCIe Gen 4
A reliable source with AMD and NVIDIA leaks, ExecutableFix has shared some interesting bits of early information on AMD's next-generation Socket AM5. Apparently this will be AMD's first mainstream-desktop socket that does away with pins on the processor package, shifting them to the motherboard, in a Land Grid Array (LGA) format. This won't be AMD's first client LGA, though, as it was the Quad FX platform from 2006, which used a pair of Socket F LGAs. Socket AM5 will have a pin-count of 1,718 pins, 18 more than Intel's upcoming Socket LGA1700, on which its 12th Gen Core "Alder Lake-S" is expected to be based.
AMD will give the I/O of its client desktop platform a major update, with the introduction of DDR5 memory. Socket AM5 processors are expected to feature a dual-channel DDR5 memory interface. With Intel "Alder Lake-S" implementing DDR5, too, you now know why every major memory manufacturer is unveiling their first DDR5 U-DIMM product development. Interestingly, the PCI-Express interface on Socket AM5 will remain PCI-Express 4.0, even though PCI-Express 5.0 is being rumored for "Alder Lake-S." The switch to PCI-Express 5.0 may not be significant from a graphics cards perspective immediately, but paves the way for next-gen M.2 NVMe SSDs with double the transfer-rates of current drives that use PCI-Express 4.0. AMD is developing the new 600-series chipset to do with its next-generation Socket AM5 processors.
Source:
ExecutableFix (Twitter)
AMD will give the I/O of its client desktop platform a major update, with the introduction of DDR5 memory. Socket AM5 processors are expected to feature a dual-channel DDR5 memory interface. With Intel "Alder Lake-S" implementing DDR5, too, you now know why every major memory manufacturer is unveiling their first DDR5 U-DIMM product development. Interestingly, the PCI-Express interface on Socket AM5 will remain PCI-Express 4.0, even though PCI-Express 5.0 is being rumored for "Alder Lake-S." The switch to PCI-Express 5.0 may not be significant from a graphics cards perspective immediately, but paves the way for next-gen M.2 NVMe SSDs with double the transfer-rates of current drives that use PCI-Express 4.0. AMD is developing the new 600-series chipset to do with its next-generation Socket AM5 processors.
145 Comments on AMD Socket AM5 an LGA of 1,718 Pins with DDR5 and PCIe Gen 4
This latest leak just indicates that the first generation of AM5 CPUs, chipsets and boards will support version 4 only.
If only there was a solution.... :wtf:
Maybe there are people out there poking nose and eyes eveytime washing their face,
or cutting themselves everytime they use a knife.
Maybe some people do not have the ability to get in the state of being calm and just don´t break anything.
You can blame the user all you want but that isn't going to improve the reality of the situation. The fact of the matter is as a company if users are experiencing an issue you should seek to fix it.
Mind you there are some people who simply don't have steady hands, have a medical issues (like diabetes, lazy eye, or any form of eye giggle), or are just old. It's rather insensitive to simply discount those people as untalented.
I really don't get all the moaning about bent pads/pins on LGA or PGA...I've removed/installed CPUs countless times without damaging any of it.
Even 8k uncompressed raw video cannot saturate pci 4 nvme speeds. Considering the future cost of ddr5, storage and gpu I'd rather save some money on the motherboard.
Intel didn't introduce consumer CPU model numbers until around 2006 with the Pentium 4. Netburst had pretty much failed by that time, so in order to prepare us for the lower-clocked but far superior Core architecture, Pentium 4 needed to adopt lesser model numbers than Core, which was clocked lower but performed way better. I guess in a weird sense, our model numbers today are still based on Netburst.
PCI-E 4.0 is'nt even fully taxed; let alone PCI-E 3.0.The PR rating was based on AMD's own CPU's, not Intel's counterpart. If you'd buy a 1800+ or so it was guaranteed to be equal like a 1800Mhz chip.
Netburst was horrible. The A64 beat it to it while being clocked lower.
Oh, and it just so happens that there is demand! For example nvme RAID cards. 4 SSD could easily saturate all the bandwidth.
Or you could split one PCIe into few slower ones.
This might aswell end up been a good move by AMD, despite the complaints by some folks.
And if I'm reading that correctly, Intel will have support for three generations of PCIe on a single platform.