AMD Ryzen CPUs significantly benefit from higher clock speed RAM due to their Infinity Fabric architecture, which directly ties data transfer speeds between CPU cores to memory frequency, unlike Intel's architecture.
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following the initial release of AMD Rison there was a ton of discussion
regards to using higher clocked system ram particularly in games the
performance benefits of having higher clock memory was something that we
didn't necessarily see an Intel side it's just not now the architecture is
made it's not made to benefit from higher clock memory but rise ins
architecture is and that's what I want to talk about in this video if it's
worth buying really expensive high clock RAM out of the box for the sake of a
rise in CPU and a lot of the people who spend you know 400 bucks on an 1800 X
are probably gonna buy a higher clock to rise in memory anyway at least a memory
that's capable of reaching 3000 or 3,200 maker it's on the rise in platform which
is difficult to do we'll talk about that as well but for those who are in the
mid-range Rison five-tier should you still consider fast memory and why does
it even matter in the first place I talk about all that in this video now when it
comes down to it all rise in CPUs on a fabrication level are basically the same
there are a few imperfections in some of the cores and that is ultimately
differentiates a rise in three cpu from a rise in seven cpu so of the eight
cores that are packed into every Rison chip no matter if you have a rise in
three up to Horizon seven CPU if four of those aren't doing too well then AMD is
gonna just disable and they're just gonna turn them off it's better than
making an entirely new fabrication process for a four core chip this way
they can save money makes perfect sense I don't blame them for doing that so a
before remaining course if these can handle power loads pretty well and the
the performance degradation isn't too substantial then these might be arisin
five 1400s or 1500 X's if they aren't doing too well with handling a lot of
power and the schedulers aren't doing that great a job at increasing the
performance level then they might be rising three CPUs with multi-threading
and disabled so it really comes down to what AMD deems as acceptable on both
power delivery and execution levels now the difference between AMD and Intel
because Intel does this too with bidding is that AMD decides well if these four
cores aren't going to cut it we're gonna disable two of the cores in one cc X
which is a four core cluster in a Rison CPU and two cores in the other CC X
which is the other cluster of horizon CPU every rise in CPU has to CC
x's per die the red Ripper has four which is why you can get up to 16 cores
in those CPUs maybe this diary shot will help explain things a bit better so if
two cores are activated in one cc X and two are activated in the other there has
to be some sort of efficient way for them both to communicate because these
are essentially two separate dies they might not be that physically but each
core cluster has an own set of resources including l3 cache which means that when
you're in especially intense situations on a computational level and they have
to share information and process information simultaneously and exchange
resources there has to be an efficient Highway a way for data to be transferred
super quick between the cores to eliminate that latency this highway is
called the Infinity fabric as Tom's Hardware puts it the large amount of
data flowing through this pathway requires a lot of scheduling magic to
ensure a high quality of service it's also logical to assume that these six
and four core models benefit from less cross CCX traffic compared to the eight
core models so they're actually hinting at here is
the dual CCX design is a blessing in a way and a curse it's a blessing for AMD
from a financial standpoint because all they have to do is slap multiple CC exes
into the same chip and just run infinity fabric all between them which saves them
money because they can control how many CC exes are in each dial without
completely redoing the fabrication process but the curse involved is the
latency involved between the CC X data transfers so the Infinity fabric itself
is not the most efficient means by which data is transferred from one CC X to
another this is where the faster memory comes into play it's but this whole
video is about why rise and benefits from faster memory we hear people say
that maybe they don't know what they're talking about but they are correct in a
sense it really depends on the number of cores enabled per cc X but ultimately
Rison will benefit more from faster memory than Intel will and the reason
why is because the Infinity fabrics speed this the rate at which it can
transfer data is directly tied to the frequency of your system memory Intel is
independent on the same variable because their consumer-grade CPUs are reliant on
the ring bus design two rings share information between let's say 4 cores
and basically you have less traffic being dispatched between cores so the
the congestion isn't as great as it would be on an 8-core Rison cpu because
then you have four cores trying to share information down let's say a single
pathway with the Infinity fabric so there can be quite a bit of congestion
and lag I shouldn't say lag it's more or less a gamer term but latency it's the
delay in data transfer and we see a huge difference between the rain bus design
with Intel a comparable Intel CPU and the Infinity fabric whereas cores on an
i7 7 700 K rely on the latency roughly between 30 and 40 nanoseconds cross
quartic or latency on a cc x-ray for Horizon is somewhere in the realm of 200
nanoseconds almost 10 times the latency just because data has to be transferred
across an infinity fabric not to be frank we're talking nanoseconds here not
even milliseconds but it does add up over time as huge computational
workloads bottleneck that infinity fabric you can imagine how things get
pretty backed up in the long run and you might even be able to tell a difference
in things like games and also in render times if you do have heavy workloads
being pushed to rise in CPUs they might not be able to handle them as well with
that lower clocked system Ram so there you have it yes AMD rice and CPUs do
benefit from higher clock memory it's not a myth and the reason why is because
AMD employs infinity fabric which is directly dependent on the speed of your
RAM now getting too much into detail that's really all you need to know
something else worth noting is that rise in 3cp is because they only have two
cores activated per CCX aren't going to benefit as much from the higher clocked
Ram only because the data transfer rates between CC X's are going to be as high
because only two cores per CC X are actually sending information whereas in
horizon 7 1700 700 X or 800 X CPU get four cores on each side sending a ton of
information things can get pretty congested in there for more info on this
maybe you'd like to read an article about the Infinity fabric I invite you
to check out the link at the top this video's description sometimes it helps
to just read something over and over until it clicks each it takes me 5 or 6
times I'm like I'm like you're bringing the sentence until till something clicks
you get that light bulb go off now ok I get it now
it's harder to do that with a videocassette to keep hearing me say it
over and over again it's less annoying when you're doing it yourself in your
head and invite you to check that link out by the way it's linked to Tom's
hardware and they have a great article breaking down the Infinity fabric and
why it behaves the way it does also is a pretty cool benchmarks in there to back
up the claims made in this video if you like this video be sure to give it a
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