My predictions were right … The upcoming next-gen AMD Ryzen 7000 “Zen 4” Processors will support DDR5 ram. Oh boy I can’t wait!
Taken from TPU … MD’s first desktop processor with DDR5 memory support, the Ryzen 7000 series “Raphael,” based on the “Zen 4” microarchitecture, will come with a design focus on DDR5 memory overclocking capabilities, with the company claiming that the processors will be capable of handling DDR5 memory clock speeds “you maybe thought couldn’t be possible,” according to Joseph Tao who is a Memory Enabling Manager at AMD.
Tao stated: “Our first DDR5 platform for gaming is our Raphael platform and one of the awesome things about Raphael is that we are really gonna try to make a big splash with overclocking and I’ll just kinda leave it there but speeds that you maybe thought couldn’t be possible, may be possible with this overclocking spec.” We are hearing reports of AMD innovating a new overclocking standard for DDR5 memory, which it calls RAMP (Ryzen Accelerated Memory Profile), which it is positioning as a competing standard to Intel’s XMP 3.0 spec.
For its current desktop platforms with DDR4 memory, AMD offers A-XMP, a UEFI firmware-level innovation that translates settings from XMP profiles into AMD-compatible settings. RAMP will be different, in that in addition to the usual memory clock-speeds, main timings, and voltage values, it will include many of the finer memory settings that are specific to the “Zen 4” memory controller.
“Raphael” Socket AM5 desktop processors will be AMD’s second processor to support DDR5 (assuming it launches before EPYC “Genoa.”). The company’s Ryzen 6000 “Rembrandt” processors based on the “Zen 3+” architecture already come with a DDR5 memory interface. Socket AM5 is expected to be a DDR5-exclusive platform unlike Intel Socket LGA1700, which means no backwards-compatibility with DDR4.