That XMP was a success is indisputable, to the point that AMD had to copy the system with a version which was given various names according to the manufacturer. Intel is much more uncompromising on this subject and has given the boards of manufacturers the designation XMP as such, being present in all models. But why switch to XMP 3.0 now?
XMP profiles and Intel and AMD warranty
With these types of profiles coming from memory manufacturers and the only two participants in the x86 CPU race, it turns out that, oddly enough, activating an XMP profile could void the processor warranty if the memory speed exceeds. that of the BMI CPU.
The problem seems to be that current memory controllers are really very delicate, require a lot of voltage, and degrade easily due to the high speeds they can handle out of the box and overclocked.
Therefore, it is not fully understood that Intel will update XMP to a version whose changes are not known at the moment, but what is certain is that it will arrive for DDR5 and Alder. Lake-S.
XMP 3.0 follows in the footsteps of XMP 2.0 and will bring impressive clock speeds, such as DDR5-7200 or DDR5-8400, all under overclock in the modules that carry it, which will perhaps imply that the IMC of Intel and AMD remain in a more modest DDR5-4800 or DDR5-6400.
HWiNFO reveals the mystery: XMP 3.0 support in version 7.05
The release notes for this new version of this well-known monitoring and management software cite XMP 3.0 as follows:
- Added NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, 3070 and 3060 Ti LHR variants.
- Fixed memory clock ratios and some other settings in Rocket Lake 6c / 4c.
- Improved early support for some Zen4 based systems.
- Added a workaround for systems with blocked SMBus causing long delays.
- See VRM monitors in ASRock Z590 Extreme, Z590 Phantom Gaming 4, H570 Phantom Gaming 4, H570 Steel Legend, B550 Extreme4, B550 PG Velocita.
- Several models of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and 3080 Ti cards have been added.
- Improved sensor monitoring on the GIGABYTE X570S series.
- Added option to use RFC 3339 or ISO 8601 date formats for sensor registration.
- Added Intel XMP 3.0 support for DDR5.
- Per-core temperature monitoring has been added for AMD Zen processors.
This means that Alder Lake is much closer than you might think, like Zen 4, and more than likely to be faced with little temporal distance. For now, we have to wait to learn more about XMP 3.0, because seeing DDR5, it surely has its peculiarities.
