ADATA is showing off the world’s first DDR5 memory to officially support Intel’s 14th generation Core platform at Computex 2023 in Taipei.
Of course, all DDR5 memory currently on the market should, unsurprisingly, support Intel’s next-generation products, but no manufacturer has yet publicly mentioned what memory speeds are supported by default for the 14th-generation Core series processors.
Judging from the product specifications given by ADATA, the 14-generation Core series mentioned here is likely to be Raptor Lake Refresh instead of Meteor Lake (existing news suggests that both belong to the 14-generation processors).
As of now, we still haven’t seen any news about Raptor Lake Refresh memory spec support, but ADATA shows that their DDR5 6400 CKD DIMM memory is supported by the 1.1V low voltage of the Gen 14 Core platform, which means that DDR4 6400 could be the new default speed.
Let’s review the Intel platform support for DDR5 memory. First, Intel first supported DDR5-4800 memory with the first generation LGA1700 platform codenamed “Alder Lake”, and with the Z690 motherboard, it also allowed for greater overclocking performance.
With the introduction of Intel’s 13th generation Core “Raptor Lake” series processors, we have been able to see support for DDR5 5600 and DDR4 3200 default frequencies. Later, Intel and board manufacturers enabled support for non-binary memory, enabling 24GB / 48GB and 96GB memory support.
It was also previously revealed that Intel will launch Meteor Lake-S processors in the first half of 2024 and that MTL-S base frequency support could reach DDR5-6400, a specification we believe will also be supported by Raptor Lake Refresh, which is also a 14th-generation processor.
According to @SquashBionic, the MTL-S (6+8) currently in circulation supports 5600 MT/s, while the MTL-S (6+16) supports 6400 MT/s. However, there was later news that the MTL-S (6+8) chip has been canceled or renamed, so it seems likely that DDR5-6400 will be the base memory for the 14th-generation CPUs. The specification.
