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Re:AMD Claims Arm ISA Doesn't Offer Efficiency Advantage ove... by hnuser123456 on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @11:07AM (#45182950)
Yes, the M-series chips effectively use several "channels" of RAM (depending on the tier/size of chip) while most desktop parts, including the 9950x, are dual-channel. You get 51.2 GB/s of bandwidth per channel of DDR5-6400.

You can get 8-RAM-channel motherboards and CPUs and have 400 GB/s of DDR5 too, but you pay a price for the modularity and capacity over it all being integrated and soldered. DIMMs will also have worse latency than soldered chips and have a max clock speed penalty due to signal degradation at the copper contacts. A Threadripper Pro 9955WX is $1649, a WRX90 motherboard is around $1200, and 8x16GB sticks of DDR5 RDIMMS is around $1200, $2300 for 8x32GB, $3700 for 8x64GB sticks, $6000 for 8x96GB.

Re:AMD Claims Arm ISA Doesn't Offer Efficiency Advantage ove... by christkv on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @07:25AM (#45196120)
Or you can get a strix halo 395+ that has 8 memory channels with a max of 128gb of ram. I think it does around 400 GB/s
Re:AMD Claims Arm ISA Doesn't Offer Efficiency Advantage ove... by hnuser123456 on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @12:09PM (#45199777)
From what I see Strix Halo has a 256 bit memory bus, which would be like quad channel ddr5, but it's soldered so can run at 8000mt/s, which comes out to 256 GB/s.
Re:AMD Claims Arm ISA Doesn't Offer Efficiency Advantage ove... by christkv on Thursday September 11, 2025 @01:44AM (#45208227)
Yeah you are right still up from the other consumer platforms