Re:AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast
by matja on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @03:48AM
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That'd give you the best memory bandwidth. A single core is more than capable of saturating a single memory channel in certain streams of instructions.
Early AMD x86-64 chips were exactly that, and EPYC Naples (gen 1) was similar - each CCD had 2 memory channels. Later EPYCs ran the memory controllers from a separate IOD, in part because the strong NUMA topology was a bit too much for some OS's (Windows) to handle.
But these days with the very high core counts, it is infeasible for a memory channel per core.
Early AMD x86-64 chips were exactly that, and EPYC Naples (gen 1) was similar - each CCD had 2 memory channels. Later EPYCs ran the memory controllers from a separate IOD, in part because the strong NUMA topology was a bit too much for some OS's (Windows) to handle.
But these days with the very high core counts, it is infeasible for a memory channel per core.