The year started strong, AMD presented the new Zen 4 architecture and every day that passes we learn more details about what we will have with it in the future, both in its new processors and technologies that the new motherboards will incorporate. AMD Ryzen 7000 It is the long-awaited name for the new processors and it will be goodbye to the AM4 socket that has been with us for so many years, thus giving way to the AM5 socket for the new AMD Ryzen. Within these new technologies that we are learning about little by little, it has recently become known about AMD RAMP, the alternative to the red giant’s Intel XMP to support DDR5 memory with overclock profiles.
The first time it was known about AMD RAMP went through the program HWiNFO in its last update, where in its notes they notified of the implementation of support for it and as it has been known through the sources, it was confirmed what it was and what this technology is for.
AMD RAMP: the alternative to Intel XMP 3.0
The next socket AM5 motherboards will be the first to offer support for DDR5 memory on the AMD platform; the new AMD Ryzen 7000 alias Raphael processors based on Zen 4 will also integrate what is known as AMD RAMP of its acronym in English Accelerated Memory Profile, which is AMD’s alternative to memory profile loading for socket AM5 that will stand up to the current Intel XMP 3.0
Likewise, we must assume that although AMD currently has a lot of strength in the market, memory manufacturers they will not abandon XMP, so we can understand that the next DDR5 memory modules will share the profiles for both Intel with XMP 3.0 as well as the new boards for AMD Ryzen based on Zen 4 with new AMD RAMP technology. Memory profiles have been used for many years and are predefined by the manufacturer.
Three profiles per module: JEDEC, XMP and RAMP
Currently we can find from 1 to 2 profiles depending on the type of memory, this information is housed within the SPD (Serial Presence Detect), so it is expected that in this, in addition to finding the current XMP profiles, the space will be shared to enter the information on the memory profiles for AMD RAMP. In the SPD we will find the JEDEC operating data, the ones used by the board to start memory before loading the manual profiles or those established in XMP or in the future in AMD RAMP.
With the expected arrival at the end of this year of the new platform AM5 for AMD Ryzen processors, the world of PC hardware components is abuzz with new technologies. Until now, AMD AMP was a vague alternative to be able to use the XMP memory profiles within AM4 platforms, but it is expected that with AMD RAMP and the new proprietary profiles, much more performance can be obtained from the memories under AM5. Whatever it is, we really want to see the new processors with LGA-1718 socket, which will arrive for the second half of this year.
