Thursday, September 12th 2024
Prepare for Over 9000 MT/s DDR5 Speeds with Intel Z890 and "Arrow Lake"
Intel's upcoming Core Ultra 200 "Arrow Lake-S" desktop processors will herald a new wave of overclocking memory kits as the architecture is expected to support even higher memory speeds than the current 14th Gen Core. The product page of an ASRock Z890 motherboard lists out maximum memory speeds for various DIMM configurations. The most overclocker-friendly config—1 single-rank DIMM per channel—sees ASRock mention support for DDR5-9200+ (OC). The fastest DDR5 OC memory kits in the market are DDR5-8600, and over the Summer, JEDEC announced standardization of high frequency DDR5 configurations, including the likes of DDR5-8800. Such high frequencies require the DIMM to feature a clock driver.
Those looking for high capacity memory configurations have big reason to cheer. For two single-rank DIMMs per channel, or one dual-rank DIMM per channel, the motherboard's product page mentions an OC speed of DDR5-6800+. This should be a boon for those wanting large memory capacities such as 96 GB or 128 GB using dual-rank DIMMs at reasonably high speeds. Even the densest memory configuration, two dual-rank DIMMs per channel, has a maximum OC speed of DDR5-5800+. This should allow users to approach the platform's maximum memory capacity, such as 256 GB using four 64 GB dual-rank DIMMs, or 192 GB using four 48 GB DIMMs, but at much higher speeds that what the current platforms are capable of.
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Those looking for high capacity memory configurations have big reason to cheer. For two single-rank DIMMs per channel, or one dual-rank DIMM per channel, the motherboard's product page mentions an OC speed of DDR5-6800+. This should be a boon for those wanting large memory capacities such as 96 GB or 128 GB using dual-rank DIMMs at reasonably high speeds. Even the densest memory configuration, two dual-rank DIMMs per channel, has a maximum OC speed of DDR5-5800+. This should allow users to approach the platform's maximum memory capacity, such as 256 GB using four 64 GB dual-rank DIMMs, or 192 GB using four 48 GB DIMMs, but at much higher speeds that what the current platforms are capable of.
31 Comments on Prepare for Over 9000 MT/s DDR5 Speeds with Intel Z890 and "Arrow Lake"
I wonder how much DDR5 9000 would actually matter for gaming or average use.
No more Intel Foxville NIC is probably the best upgrade here, I see they restored the graphics-related circuitry that the Z790 models don't have too. That's quite surprising, I wonder if there's a high overclock potential for the integrated graphics on the Arrow Lake chips. Unfortunately, looks like they removed the native PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports and are now using a combo port, that's a downside for me. Other specs seem pretty much the exact same, like codec, DAC/AMP, DIMM.2, the voltage probes and general board layout.
Blurbs state 9000 MT/s support specifically with a CUDIMM installed, wonder if support for regular modules without a clock driver is also "8400" like the Z790's. Looks like this was omitted from the page. Once G.Skill releases a 32 or 48 GB Z5 CK kit rated for 10000 MT/s I'm gonna pick one up, since they supposedly work with Raptor Lake as well