The year has started strong, AMD has presented the new Zen 4 architecture and each passing day teaches us more details of what we will have with it in the future, both in its new processors and in technologies and new cards mothers will integrate. AMD Ryzen 7000 This is the long-awaited name of the new processors and it will be goodbye to the AM4 socket that has accompanied us for so many years, thus giving way to the AM5 socket for the new AMD Ryzen. Within these new technologies that we are learning little by little, AMD RAMP has recently been announced, the alternative to the Intel XMP of the red giant to support DDR5 memory with overclock profiles.
The first time we knew AMD RAMP went through the program HWiINFO in its latest update where in its notes they notified the implementation of support for it and as it has been known by the sources it has been confirmed what it is and what this technology is for.
AMD RAMP: the alternative to Intel XMP 3.0
Upcoming socket AM5 motherboards will be the first to offer DDR5 memory support on the AMD platform; the new Zen 4-based AMD Ryzen 7000 aka Raphael processors will also incorporate what is known as AMD RAMP of its acronym in English Accelerated Memory Profile, which is AMD’s alternative to loading the memory profile for socket AM5 that will withstand the current Intel XMP 3.0
Likewise, we have to assume that although AMD currently has a lot of market strength, memory makers they won’t abandon XMP, so we can understand that the next DDR5 memory modules will share the profiles for Intel with XMP 3.0 as well as the new cards for AMD Ryzen based on Zen 4 with new AMD RAMP technology. Memory profiles have been used for many years and are predefined by the manufacturer.
Three profiles per module: JEDEC, XMP and RAMP
Currently we can find 1 to 2 profiles depending on the type of memory, this information is housed within the SPD (serial presence detection), so it is expected that in addition to finding current XMP profiles, space will be shared to enter memory profile information for AMD RAMP. In the SPD we will find the JEDEC operating data, those used by the card to start the memory before loading the manual profiles or those established in XMP or in the future in AMD RAMP.
With the expected arrival at the end of this year of the new platform AM5 for AMD Ryzen processors, the world of PC hardware components is abuzz with new technologies. Until now, AMD AMP was a vague alternative to be able to use XMP memory profiles in AM4 platforms, but it is expected that with AMD RAMP and the new proprietary profiles, much more performance can be obtained from the memories under AM5. Anyway, we really want to see the new processors with LGA-1718 socket, which will arrive for the second half of this year.
