SafeDisk (SoonHo Jeong), one of today’s most prominent overclockers, has managed to set a new memory overclocking record in the form of DDR5-10600 with an AMD Ryzen 7 8700G APU and ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X670E GENE motherboard. The record comes only days after GIGABYTE announced that a DDR5-10346 memory overclock was attained by Benny Lodewijk Nitolo Lase, achieved using a B650E AORUS TACHYON with an 8700G.
System specs (DDR5-10600):
- ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X670E GENE
- AMD Ryzen 7 8700G (Radeon 780M)
- G.SKILL 16384 MB (DDR5-4800)
Validation:
System specs (DDR5-10346):
- GIGABYTE B650E AORUS TACHYON
- AMD Ryzen 7 8700G (Radeon 780M)
- G.SKILL 16384 MB (DDR5-4800)
Validation:
One publication notes:
Intel has so far achieved up to DDR5-10382 speeds on a dual-channel setup while AMD’s AM5 platform now sits at DDR5-10600 and this might just be the start of things to come.
Discussion (3 replies)
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Damn. That's impressive.
Thinking / remembering further - when the Gene was released for AM5, I'd wondered whether the optimized two-DIMM configuration would be useful; the first AM5 CPUs (the current 7000-series) were simply unable to broadly support memory speeds above 6000MT/s, and for those CPUs that's still the recommended target speed.
But like the 5000G-series before, the monolithic die in the 8000G-series seems to come with a memory controller that's relatively unconstrained. Personally, I had no problem running DDR4 4400+ on a 5700G and an ITX board (two DIMM slots like the Gene), where the chiplet-based CPUs rarely managed to hit above DDR4 3800+.
This also implies that the memory configurations on the nicer AM5 boards probably do / did inherit the lessons learned from the Z690 boards, meaning that as AMDs DDR5 memory controllers mature, much higher memory speeds and denser memory configurations (like 192GB with 4x 48GB DIMMs) might be possible.