Ryzen 7000 and EPYC Genoa will support DDR5-5200 memory

Ryzen 7000 and EPYC Genoa will support DDR5-5200 memory

A recent table made public by Apacer and reported by the well-known leaker momomo_us, shows the memories supported by current and future processors from Intel and AMD. The graph shows how Intel's Alder Lake CPUs, Sapphire Rapids and Ryzen 6000s have support for DDR5-4800 memories, while Ryzen “Raphael” 7000 and EPYC Genoa come to natively support DDR5-5200.

In recent days we had already reported the news of how AMD's new AM5 sockets could have support only for DDR5 memories and that only a double memory controller on the Ryzen 7000 would guarantee compatibility even with DDR4. From the table, however, it does not appear that the new AMD processors will have such support.

DDR5-5200 RAM will provide 8.3% more memory bandwidth than DDR5-4800 RAM. This suggests that the next AMD CPUs will be equipped with a better memory subsystem than the one currently available on Intel processors, however it is reasonable to imagine that Intel will adopt support for DDR5-5200 in the future, starting with the next Raptor Lake, not mentioned. in the Apacer's table.




On the industrial level, companies working with AI, enterprise and data center servers and other applications are expected to be the first to adopt the new standard. The DDR5 RAMs have an operating voltage of 1.1 V while the DDR4 ones of 1.2 V. This allows for an energy saving of 8%, which is very important for all those companies that need constant operation. br>
The DDR5 RAM in the future will take the place of DDR4, also thanks to the performance improvements and the progressive price reduction, but at the moment the high costs do not make them convenient. At the moment the solution improves seems to include support for both technologies, but some rumors indicate that AMD could act differently, only DDR5 support on future Ryzen 7000s.