AMD Confirms Zen 3 Brings Entirely Brand New CPU Architecture, Delivers Significant IPC Gains, Faste

[extide]

LoL yeah. Thanks for letting us know a module is a dimm.

Not sure if you're trying to be sarcastic or not but both the wiki article and the toms article use the term module to refer to a dimm. Tom's actually uses both terms -- It's not like that's new terminology either...

Other benefits of DDR5 RAM include two independent 40-bit channels per module, improved command bus efficiency, improved refresh schemes and an increased bank group for additional performance.

For instance, DDR5 DIMMs will support two 40-bit (32-bit + ECC) independent channels.

 

[Ebernanut]

My first thought was that this sounds like the Bulldozer hype but after thinking about it for a second it sounds more like the comments leading up to Zen 2 which were fairly accurate. It would be great if these turn out nice and I could drop one of these in my x470 board but I half expect them to require a new socket with the 2020 timeline they've stated before.

Believe it when I see it, but I hope it's true.

If it's "Entirely new" wouldn't it not be "Zen"? Sounds like (the news story) is bullshitting us...

Branding often changes less frequently than architectures, AMD used the Athlon branding from socket A until AM3+ and Intel used the Pentium branding from the 586 through Pentium IV.

 

[Mega6]

Not sure if you're trying to be sarcastic or not but both the wiki article and the toms article use the term module to refer to a dimm. Tom's actually uses both terms -- It's not like that's new terminology either...

Sarcasm

 

[P1x3L]

So sounds like we won't be able to build a DDR5 box until mid 2021? Hopefully ECC will be more widely available for DDR5 motherboards with Ryzen than DDR4!

 

[blackmomba]

It's just that AMD only confirmed AM4 to be recieving support until 2020, that is approaching pretty fast I mean there is nothing stating they won't choose to continue supporting it further down the road but they have reached a point where depending on when they intend on launching a product AM4 may not be their socket of choice.

Yeah it'll be AM4+, something like with the last 5 sockets, where an AM4 chip can drop right in

 

[HAL_404]

So many comments in here about the announcement being a lie but then I realized that many have been conditioned by Intel over the past how many year?

I thought the writing was on the wall for Intel when they started selling the K versions that couldn't be OCed without giving it a delid and in the process voiding the warranty