Intel's Sierra Forest "Xeon 6E" CPU featuring 144 cores has leaked out once again in a dual-socket configuration just a few weeks ahead of its launch.
02.05.2024 - 17:46 / wccftech.com / Lake S.Desktop / Hassan Mujtaba
Intel's Arrow Lake-S "Core Ultra 200" Desktop CPUs could feature a brand new DDR5 memory controller as hinted by a renowned overclocker.
The information comes from MSI's Dragon Shield "Wuhan" event where the company presented its latest products and innovations. During the event, MSI's in-house & renowned overclocker, TOPPC, took the stage to briefly talk about dual-channel memory controllers featured on existing Intel CPU families and teased the upcoming Arrow Lake-S "Core Ultra 200" Desktop platform. No mention of the CPU family or its memory controller was made but it is fairly easy to tell what Toppc was talking about.
The current Intel Alder Lake (12th Gen) and Raptor Lake (13th Gen / 14th Gen) CPUs feature both dual-channel DDR4 and DDR5 memory controllers. One should expect the same to be the case on Intel's next-gen desktop CPU family but it looks like Intel may be offering an updated IMC which is going to be great for memory tuners.
As of right now, DDR5 memory has only reached speeds of up to 9000 MT/s in overclockable DIMMs and although JEDEC is laying out the standard for future 8800 MT/s speeds for servers, the client speed can see a major uplift in memory support. There is still the question of whether all motherboards will be qualified to support such high speeds as we have seen with 600/700-series motherboards that only a few high-end variants and certain boards like the Z790 MPOWER can support high-speed OC memory.
With that said, overclockers have pushed DDR5 memory speeds to the limits using Intel's 14th Gen platform. The highest recorded speed so far is DDR5-11648.4 which is simply nuts. Intel's next-gen Arrow Lake-S "Core Ultra 200" Desktop CPUs are expected to feature native DDR5 support of up to 6400 MT/s which is around a 14% uptick over DDR5-5600 native speeds listed for 14th Gen CPUs. It is the baseline that suggests that Intel's Arrow Lake should be able to handle speeds north of 10K MT/s.
Following is what we know about Arrow Lake-S Desktop CPUs so far:
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