You might not know this, but big tech companies offer a series of webinars that are really informative for letting industry professionals know how things work, or even just small previews. AMD is one such company and in its latest Meet The Experts seminar it released some very interesting details about its new processors which, on the other hand, we have already hinted at based on rumours. And it is that the Ryzen 7000 will support DDR5 and infarction rates.
Everything known about the Zen 4 architecture and the new Ryzen 7000 takes shape based on statements and although the PC market has not been addressed as such, the characteristics revealed will be aimed at processors general public, so it’s really interesting.
AMD Ryzen 7000: DDR5 confirmed and in close collaboration with Samsung
One of the special things about the seminar was that Samsung was there to present and explain the features. The two companies are working together to bring the company’s new IMC to life and as such, AMD will be pushing hard for DDR5 memory where Koreans have been designing the best memory chips for over a decade, proof of this is the famous B-Die everyone is looking for in RAM.
Joseph Tao, Memory Enablement Manager at AMD explains it clearly:
Our first DDR5 gaming rig is our Raphael rig and one of the cool things about Raphael is we’re really going to try and make a splash with overclocking and I’ll leave it at that but it’s speeds which you may have thought was not possible with this specification of processors for overclocking.
Brief but juicy statements like few others. First of all the fact that they are leaving for DDR5 with Raphaël (Ryzen 7000 and Zen 4) has a lot to do with something that was discussed back then, like RAMP, the new memory profile to boost speed and therefore performance in Ryzen.
Apparently and according to rumors, it could come not only in BIOS / UEFI, but it would be implemented in the Ryzen Master utility, which is much more comfortable for all users who do not have much knowledge about RAM memory and its advanced configuration.
Infarct speeds in the nuclei
What seems to be coming with AMD is an update in terms of frequencies, although it should be specified here that they will be overclocked. Likewise, according to the latest rumors, AMD is working on frequencies of at least 5 GHz as standard which, with overclocking, could be on par with Intel, hovering around 5.3GHz or 5.5GHzIt’s not very clear.
But then doubts arise. They do not have 3D virtual cache these new Ryzen 7000? Or did AMD fix all voltage issues with them? We don’t have that information beyond what Tao has commented on, but the issues seem to be overcome, at least from a production perspective, as it was expected that the first processor with this type of cache , like the 5800X3D, is coming in small quantities (20,000 units for next week) and now it’s expected to more than double the number of processors in just a few months (talking about 50,000 units in a quarter)
If so, by simply increasing the frequency, the IPC will increase a bit, although on the other hand it’s not that AMD scales particularly well at more MHz, at least not at the level of Intel. It may be that Zen 4 puts an end to this fact and the speeds acquired will be similar to those of Intel, which, together with the improvements in the architecture, could again give AMD an edge over its rival. Undoubtedly, everything becomes very interesting.
