Ivy Bridge triple channel memory?

FishmanGeertz

The Sandy Bridge only has dual channel RAM, which is why the Nehalem pulls ahead in memory-intensive applications and benchmarks. Will the Ivy Bridge include triple-channel memory? The Ivy Bridge is a 22nm die shrink of the Sandy Bridge.

And when will the 8-core chips from AMD and Intel be released?

moogoomonkey

Don't know about Ivy Bridge but I guess that they would add trip chan memory since Intel obviously already has the technology to support it and must probably just be drip feeding it into the market.

For the 8 core processors I heard that the new AMD Bulldozer chips could be released in the week of June 20th. The new chips are going to be with a new chip socket AM3+ which has been created since the AM3 socket would not allow for some of the features. Since it is + it will be backwards compatible with AM3 sockets but will not be supporting trip chan memory due to this. I'm wondering how they are going to be avoiding bottlenecks with just dual chan memory.

Personally I cannot wait for 8-core chips

Hope that was helpful

Moogoomonkey

FishmanGeertz

Someone on another forum told me that the enthusiast series of Ivy Bridge processors will feature quad-channel memory as one of the many new features of the socket 2011 or "socket R" motherboards.

moogoomonkey

Oh man that sounds awesome. Can you imagine the cost of the modules though!!

FishmanGeertz

Clock for clock, how much faster would quad-channel memory be, when compared to dual and triple-channel RAM? What applications would best take advantage of it?

Chronos

I havent seen any quad channel memory chips yet. It would require a new bridge architecture to work with cpu.

FishmanGeertz

I believe the upcoming 22nm "Ivy Bridge" shrink of the current Sandy Bridge architecture will feature the new "X68" chipset and a "socket 2011". Along with many new great features and significant improvements compared to the P67 and X58 chipsets.

It may or may not include quad channel memory. If so, then the RAM modules will probably be extremely costly.