As part of AMD's next-generation desktop platform, the legendary Ruilong 7000 / 7000x3d series desktop processor is also expected to support higher memory frequencies After half a year, the long silent @ kittyyyuko finally revealed new information on twitter - the new generation of Raphael processor will natively support the memory frequency of ddr5-5600, and raphael-x also stacks additional 3D v-cache cache.
(Figure via wccftech)
Except amd Ruilong 7000 series Raphael and raphael-x product lines. Kitty Yuko also disclosed some details of the recently exposed Zen 4 "dragon range" mobile APU.
According to the plan, amd should launch the Ruilong 7000 series Raphael Am5 desktop processor within this year, and then provide the Ruilong 7000x3d series raphael-x Am5 desktop processor with 3D v-cache next year.
This CPU naming method has been rumored earlier, but @ kittyyyuko pointed out a more interesting memory specification. It can be seen that as AMD's first ddr5 game platform, Raphael will natively support the frequency of ddr5-5600.
As a reference, the alder Lake desktop processor natively supports the memory frequency of ddr4-3200 / ddr5-4800 (the XMP / overclocking support of the motherboard is another word), and the next generation Raptor Lake desktop platform may also be upgraded to ddr5-5600.
Incidentally, APACER, a memory manufacturer, mentioned that epyc 7004 Genoa server processor has native support ddr5-5200 Memory frequency, which means Raphael is expected to increase by another 7.5% (16.5% higher than ddr5-4800).
In addition, considering that AMD introduced the concept of fclk on Zen CPU (Intel The 12th generation alder lake also has gear 1 / gear 2). It is speculated that the ddr5-5600 memory will adopt the frequency division mode of 1:3 by default.
If so, AMD will have the opportunity to continue to wrestle with Intel on the next generation desktop platform. It is said that the fclk (infinity fabric) frequency of the Ruilong 7000 series desktop CPU is between 1600-1800 MHz, which is not much different from the Zen 3 family of the Ruilong 5000 series.
Even so, thanks to the huge bandwidth improvement from DDR4 to ddr5, the Am5 APU product line with integrated core display will benefit more. In addition, it is said that Raphael "dragon range" mobile processor adopts fcbga-fl1 packaging.
The remaining question is whether amd can solve the heat accumulation problem of Ruilong 7000x3d (r7-5800x3d has proved quite embarrassing).
Otherwise, even if the price of ddr5 memory is gradually close to the mainstream DDR4 products, the majority of consumers are likely to be dissuaded by this short board of raphael-x.