Already at the end of this month, AMD will introduce its new 7nm Ryzen 3000 processors, and, as always, the closer to the announcement, the more details become known about the new products. This time it turned out that the new AMD chips are likely to support working with memory at a much higher frequency than the current models. In addition, some new details about the older new generation Ryzen models have emerged.
Motherboard manufacturers have already begun releasing new BIOS versions for their Socket AM4 motherboards that provide support for the upcoming Ryzen 3000 processors. And Ukrainian enthusiast Yuri "1usmus" Bubliy, creator of the Ryzen DRAM Calculator utility, discovered in the new BIOS the ability to set the memory frequency up to DDR4-5000 mode. This is significantly higher than what was available for the first Ryzen.
Note that the RAM clock speed affects the Infinity Fabric bus frequency. But since the effective memory frequency is too high for the bus itself, a divider is used. For example, when using DDR4-2400 memory, the bus frequency will be 1200 MHz. In the case of DDR4-5000 memory, the bus frequency would be 2500 MHz, which is too high. Therefore, most likely, AMD will add another divider to work with the fastest memory. And then for DDR4-5000 the bus frequency will be 1250 MHz.
But since the divider is a hardware component, there is nowhere for it to come from on current motherboards. So the presence of an additional divider, and, accordingly, full support for faster RAM, can be another advantage of new motherboards based on AMD X570. Of course, this does not mean at all that it will be possible to take any set of memory modules and overclock it to 5 GHz. Only the best of the best can conquer such frequencies, as in the case of the Intel platform. However, in general, one cannot but rejoice that AMD processors will be able to compete with Intel chips in memory overclocking.
In addition, it is reported that the new BIOS added SoC OC mode and VDDG voltage control. I would also like to note that, according to rumors, AMD has made significant efforts to improve memory compatibility with its processors, which is especially pleasing after the news that Samsung .
As for the new details about the older Ryzen 3000, they were shared by the author of the AdoredTV YouTube channel, which has established itself as a very reliable source of leaks. It is reported that AMD recently showed motherboard manufacturers older processors of the new generation. One of them is , which we recently learned about from another reliable source. And the second was a 12-core processor with "really high clock speeds."
I can't leak the details but AMD have been showing at least two CPUs around the mobo makers. The 16C Apisak found is very likely to be one of the chips they were showing.
The other one was 12 cores and really high clock speeds. π I don't know if they benched it online though.
β Jim (@AdoredTV)
Most likely, AMD will position the 16-core Ryzen 3000 as the processor with the highest number of cores and the highest multi-threaded performance in the mainstream market. But the 12-core model with its significantly higher frequencies will become a universal flagship for any task. That is, it will provide better performance in games compared to a 16-core chip, and at the same time offer very high performance in tasks that require many cores and threads.
Source: 3dnews.ru