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usertests A chip with 288 hot-clocked full-power CPU threads is likely to draw massive power, but it's absolutely going to want monstrous memory bandwidth. How do we feed the beast? Not with DDR6, as that standard isn't even finished yet, despite the fact that LPDDR6 is a go. Threadripper 9000 officially supports DDR5-6400 (four channels, or eight channels for TR PRO). Zen 6 consumer chips will bring full CUDIMM support. Bump support to DDR5-9600 (guaranteed only with CUDIMM), and there's your +50%. Reply
chaz_music I was thinking about CAMM and CAMM2 while reading this. That has much lower interconnect and package inductance, allowing faster clock speeds. It also has better thermal contact with the motherboard. But it is not great for motherboard real estate and motherboards that use them tend to not have extra "slots" like we are used to having with DIMM slots. For those who are interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAMM_(memory_module) Reply
dion_ usertests said: Threadripper 9000 officially supports DDR5-6400 (four channels, or eight channels for TR PRO). Zen 6 consumer chips will bring full CUDIMM support. Bump support to DDR5-9600 (guaranteed only with CUDIMM), and there's your +50%. The Threadripper platform strictly uses RDIMMs now. CUDIMMs and RDIMMs are incompatible. You likely meant MRDIMM, which is the standard Zen 6 EPYC is expected to support. Reply
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