Reminiscence producer, Apacer, has revealed on its site that AMD intends to help quicker reminiscence than the JEDEC specification by default. The slide on Apacer’s web site lists the present supported reminiscence requirements for Intel and AMD platforms, together with the unreleased “Raphael” Ryzen 7000 chips which can be attributable to be launched later this yr.
What’s stunning right here is that whereas Intel sticks with the JEDEC advice of DDR5-4800 for its Alder Lake platform, AMD is planning on going one higher (effectively 400MT/s higher) with its Zen 4 chips by supporting DDR-5200. This slide additionally seems to verify the hearsay that AMD’s shift to the AM5 platform will nix DDR4 support, as that isn’t listed within the desk both.
One of many potential causes for AMD dropping DDR4 help is in order that it might probably concentrate on the efficiency of DDR5, and together with its EXPO initiative which supports memory overclocking profiles, it’s wanting like this might certainly be the case. This additionally means that reminiscence efficiency goes to be key to AMD’s new chips, simply because it was to Zen 2 and Zen 3 in reality.
There may be nonetheless a premium for DDR5 RAM in comparison with DDR4 (it typically prices no less than double), and it is honest to say that the distinction it makes in video games might be minimal, no less than on present platforms. If AMD can unlock extra efficiency although, issues might get very fascinating, significantly within the ongoing battle with Intel to assert the title of the perfect CPU for gaming.
Formally, AMD has revealed that Zen 4 will help DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 and can use the AM5 platform, however there was no point out of pace to this point. AMD would not historically touch upon unreleased {hardware}, however I’ve reached out to them right here because the Apacer doc is there for all to see.
AMD’s Zen 4 chips are formally attributable to launch within the second half of the yr, with the expectation being on the finish of Q3 or the beginning of This fall.
