With DDR5 and PCIe Gen 4 Support.
Well well … after more than 5 years, AMD finally plans to launch a new socket type – AM5. The new socket will be in a LGA format with 1,718 pins, and will probably be supported by a new chipset too. We expect some announcement towards the end of the 2021.
Taken from TPU … A reliable source with AMD and NVIDIA leaks, ExecutableFix has shared some interesting bits of early information on AMD’s next-generation Socket AM5. Apparently this will be AMD’s first mainstream-desktop socket that does away with pins on the processor package, shifting them to the motherboard, in a Land Grid Array (LGA) format. This won’t be AMD’s first client LGA, though, as it was the Quad FX platform from 2006, which used a pair of Socket F LGAs. Socket AM5 will have a pin-count of 1,718 pins, 18 more than Intel’s upcoming Socket LGA1700, on which its 12th Gen Core “Alder Lake-S” is expected to be based.
AMD will give the I/O of its client desktop platform a major update, with the introduction of DDR5 memory. Socket AM5 processors are expected to feature a dual-channel DDR5 memory interface. With Intel “Alder Lake-S” implementing DDR5, too, you now know why every major memory manufacturer is unveiling their first DDR5 U-DIMM product development. Interestingly, the PCI-Express interface on Socket AM5 will remain PCI-Express 4.0, even though PCI-Express 5.0 is being rumored for “Alder Lake-S.” The switch to PCI-Express 5.0 may not be significant from a graphics cards perspective immediately, but paves the way for next-gen M.2 NVMe SSDs with double the transfer-rates of current drives that use PCI-Express 4.0. AMD is developing the new 600-series chipset to do with its next-generation Socket AM5 processors.
Source: ExecutableFix (Twitter), TPU
