You may not have known it, but the big tech companies have a series of webinars that are really instructive to let the industry professionals behind it know how things work, or even just a little sneak peek. AMD is one of these companies and in its latest Meet The Experts seminar it has released very interesting details about its new CPUs that, on the other hand, we already intuited based on rumours. And it is that the Ryzen 7000 will support DDR5 and heart attack speeds.
Everything we know about the Zen 4 architecture and the new Ryzen 7000 is taking shape based on statements and although the PC market was not discussed as such, the revealed characteristics will be aimed at consumer processors, so it is really interesting.
AMD Ryzen 7000: DDR5 confirmed and working closely with Samsung
One of the particularities of the seminar was the fact that Samsung was present presenting and explaining features. The two companies are working together to bring the company’s new IMC to life and as such, AMD will go all out for DDR5 memory where Koreans have been designing the best memory chips for more than a decade, proof of this is the famous B-Die that everyone looks 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 that we’re really going to try to make a big splash with overclocking and I’ll leave it at that, but those are speeds that maybe you thought couldn’t be possible with this specification of processors for overclocking.
Brief but juicy statements like few others. In the first place, the fact that they are going for DDR5 with Raphael ( Ryzen 7000 and Zen 4 ) has a lot to do with something that was discussed at the time, such as RAMP, the new memory profile to accelerate speed and thus performance. in Ryzen.
Apparently and according to rumors, this could come not only in BIOS / UEFI, but it would be implemented in the Ryzen Master utility, which is much more comfortable for all those users who do not have much knowledge about RAM memory and its advanced configuration.
Infarct velocities in nuclei
What seems to come with AMD is an update in terms of frequencies, although here it is necessary to clarify that they will be under overclock. Likewise, according to the latest rumors, AMD is working as standard on frequencies of at least 5 GHz that with overclocking could be at the same level as Intel, around 5.3 GHz or 5.5 GHz , it is not very clear.
But then doubts arise. Don’t these new Ryzen 7000 have 3D V-Cache ? Or is it that AMD has fixed all the voltage issues with them? We do not have that information beyond what Tao commented, but the problems seem to be overcome, at least from the production point of view, since it was expected that the first processor with this type of cache, such as the 5800X3D, would arrive in small quantities ( 20,000 units for next week) and now it is planned to more than double the number of processors in just a few months (there is talk of 50,000 units in a quarter)
If this is so, by simply increasing the frequency, the IPC will go up quite a bit, although on the other hand it is not that AMD scales particularly well to more MHz, at least not to the level that Intel does. Zen 4 may end this and gain speeds similar to Intel’s, which coupled with architectural improvements could put AMD one step ahead of its rival once again. Without a doubt, everything becomes very interesting.
