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AMD does market segmentation and limits consumer chips to dual-channel. You need to cough up the dough and get Threadripper for quad-channel. Or even more for T
by colejohnson66 6d ago
AMD does market segmentation and limits consumer chips to dual-channel. You need to cough up the dough and get Threadripper for quad-channel. Or even more for Threadripper Pro to get octa-channel.
- Rohansi 6d agoAs I mentioned above AMD's Strix Halo has quad channel memory and is consumer level. But yes, other than that everything is segmented away.
- torginus 6d agoAfaik steam deck is quad channel, despite it being a pretty low end chip (with a decent GPU though)
- Rohansi 6d agoKind of but not really. DDR5 splits your typical 64-bit channel into two 32-bit subchannels meaning the bus width is not increased. These subchannels are not always advertised because it's a just a feature of DDR5. Actually adding more channels increases bus width, which is what meaningfully improves memory bandwidth.