Breakthrough DDR5 XMP 8000 with the Latest BIOS on Gigabyte X670 & B650 Motherboards

[TheLostSwede]

GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards, and hardware solutions, proudly announced the ultimate memory performance of DDR5 XMP 8000 is achieved with the X670E AORUS MASTER motherboard based on the latest AMD AGESA BIOS code at a SOC voltage of 1.3 V.

GIGABYTE always works closely with AMD to ensure our motherboard designs provide supreme performance and reliability, particularly on the optimum memory performance by exclusively advanced memory layout design. Meanwhile, GIGABYTE is releasing a new beta BIOS for the X670 and B650 AORUS/AERO series motherboards for the most remarkable memory performance on the AM5 platform. The new BIOS will be available at the end of July in succession. Please pay close attention to the GIGABYTE website to download the update for optimal performance.



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[Shou Miko]

Nice and it's with 24GB density sticks I think that was what surprised me actually

 

[mama]

What does this mean? I'm assuming that the preferred ratios remain. Does this mean it's now possible to use four DIMMS in a stable system? Is this possible as an EXPO overclock? Nice number but guidance is needed.

 

[Chaitanya]

What does this mean? I'm assuming that the preferred ratios remain. Does this mean it's now possible to use four DIMMS in a stable system? Is this possible as an EXPO overclock? Nice number but guidance is needed.

From CPUZ screenshot it seems FSB: DRAM its 1:4 Ratio.

 

[Od1sseas]

With Gear 4 lol. That's garbage.

 

[ir_cow]

With Gear 4 lol. That's garbage.

You mean gear 2

 

[3DVCash]

Incredible. I never would've thought this was possible with a firmware update alone...

Curious to see where the new "sweet spot" lands for Zen 4.

 

[Dragokar]

I still wait for AGESA 1.2.0.A on my Gigabyte B550 Aorus Pro and X570S UDs.....so yeah maybe get some engineers from EVGA and do it.

 

[VIPERSRT]

Nice step I want to see how Ryzen 7 7800x3d gaming benchamrk with 8000 mhz ram

 

[Daven]

Its not just Gigabyte. Asus and Asrock too.

AMD AGESA 1007B update improves high-speed DDR5 memory support for AM5 platform, 8000 MT/s teased on $223 B650 board - VideoCardz.com

AMD AM5 motherboard enables fast DDR5 support From 6000 MT/s sweet spot to enabling high-speed DDR5 memory with the latest BIOS. AMD AM5 platform development has come a long way, and it appears that the latest AGESA 1.0.0.7 update, which is now available for some motherboards, and it is...

videocardz.com

 

[chrcoluk]

Improvements are improvements, the second article suggests the 1:1 performance has also improved and now consumers will be able to tweak internal IMC parameters, sounds good to me. Better than being told there will be no further improvement without a new motherboard chipset revision.

Hopefully @ir_cow later adds credibility to these reports.

 

[InVasMani]

It definately makes AM5 a good bit more interesting. The 7800X3D is going to really dominate that much more now giant CPU cache and much higher bandwidth system memory when you do run into cache miss scenario's. Very interesting development for certain.

 

[Minus Infinity]

If AMD themselves say due to IF speed, DDR5 6000 is the sweet spot, how will this be good for AM5 platform?

 

[deb]

Nice and it's with 24GB density sticks I think that was what surprised me actually

why use this specific density? any pros with this particular amount.

 

[Zubasa]

If AMD themselves say due to IF speed, DDR5 6000 is the sweet spot, how will this be good for AM5 platform?

That applies to Zen4.
I am pretty sure these are not the last CPUs on this platform.

 

[Tomorrow]

With Gear 4 lol. That's garbage.

There's no such thing as "gear 4". AM5 runs IF and IMC decoupled already. Otherwise 1:1 would mean that since IF is at 2000 then IMC should not be more than 4000 and obviously no one is running DDR5 at 4000.

If AMD themselves say due to IF speed, DDR5 6000 is the sweet spot, how will this be good for AM5 platform?

How is it not? Besides the statement you mentioned was made at a time when DDR5 was expensive and 6000 was pretty much the max anyway.

 

[Zubasa]

There's no such thing as "gear 4". AM5 runs IF and IMC decoupled already. Otherwise 1:1 would mean that since IF is at 2000 then IMC should not be more than 4000 and obviously no one is running DDR5 at 4000.

There are 3 clock domains on Zen4 regarding memory. There is FCLK, UCLK, and MCLK.
FCLK is the infinityt fabric clock which is desync on Zen4. UCLK is IMC clock which is usually 1:1 with MCLK (the IO clock of the memory half of its data rate).
So yes the Zen4 has been running the equivlent of Gear 1 the whole time with the UCLK / IMC clocking to 3000Mhz on DDR5 6000.
On Intel there isn't even the option of running Gear 1 on DDR5. It defaults to Gear 2 and auto switch to Gear 4 at very high data rates.

 

[InVasMani]

That applies to Zen4.
I am pretty sure these are not the last CPUs on this platform.

More importantly that was when the platform launched. They've had plenty of time to refine bios optimizations as well as just MB designs on either yet to be launched MB designs as well any any that launched after the initial launch that were a of a bit higher quality. You've also got more memory kits available today of higher quality and affordability. I think it's a bit of a combination of all of those things coming together being reflected. Basically a bit of maturity to the entire ecosystem. Plus Intel's official memory support was even less ambitious.

Biggest thing that stands out to me is better motherboard designs and optimization along with better and more affordable memory kits are available today. I mean why wouldn't things be a bit better now realistically if there has been inroad improvements to memory and motherboard support as we well cost considerations? I can't really fault AMD/INTEL not officially supporting the most outlandishly early binned memory kits and MB designs when some of these architectures were more new and recent.

If you look at anything launching now however you're expectations are going to be a bit higher probably compared to when DDR5 was more in it's earlier infancy. It's a bit beyond that very early adoption phase now even though it's still relatively newish.

 

[Shou Miko]

why use this specific density? any pros with this particular amount.

It's new and depending on how good your cpu's mem controller is it can have a easier time to run 24GB than 32GB at higher clocks.

I saw that on ZEN3 seen some people in my country that got custom builds with the Ryzen 9 5950X cpu's with 32GB at 3600MT/s memory in they finish testing before the were shipped out and passed memory and stability test but not a week after there were issues booting and running memory at 2966MT/s fixed the issue and testing with other memor didn't make a difference the mem controller was degraded.

 

[Haunter]

Still waiting for that bios release, got 192Gb@5200 now, Aorus Master, 7950x3d.

 

[TumbleGeorge]

Sorry because wcc. Records of DDR5 speed on AM5. Up to 9058MT/s

 

[Haunter]

Still waiting for that bios release, got 192Gb@5200 now, Aorus Master, 7950x3d.

With f13a running now on Aorus Master, 7950x3d stable on 192GB@5600MHz. Do you have some advice how to change BIOS settings to reach e.g. 6000? Change latencies? Right now I got as I posted here on our Czech forum:
https://forum.zive.cz/viewtopic.php...c86e93245d8bc36da1acade5&start=1080#p13532137