Leaks suggest Z890 motherboards will be capable of insane memory speeds
Blisteringly fast
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Mystery AsRock Z890 specifications leak showing it’s capable of handling overclocked DDR5 speeds of up to 9200MHz, faster than anything we have ever seen before.
Hardware leaks have emerged once again from probably the internet’s largest hardware leaker, this time in the form of motherboard leaks. momomo_us has gotten ahead of an Asrock announcement to reveal some interesting specifications on ASRock’s upcoming Z890 motherboard.
The Z890 is the flagship chipset for the upcoming Core Ultra CPUs from Intel, it’s a new socket this time around with socket LGA 1851, so sorry all you LGA 1700 enjoyers, you’re going to need a motherboard update for the Core Ultra.
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It may be a little hard to read, but the supported DDR5 speeds are up to 9200MHz, overclocked obviously. So far, the fastest supported DDR5 speed on current Z790 motherboards is 7800+(OC), which means the Z890 is capable of supporting memory that is 17% faster on average.
Intel generally isn’t as reliant on fast memory as AMD is, AMD was once very reliant on memory speeds, as in the 5000 series core communication speeds were tightly correlated with memory speeds. But they have since moved away from the co-dependency on memory speed.
It’s hard to tell how Intel Core Ultra CPUs will react to the increase in memory speed, but it surely can’t hurt. 9200MHz is a far cry ahead of the latest leaks that suggest AMD’s next motherboards only support speeds of up to 8000MHz, this is also suggested by an ASUS motherboard page on the X870-A Gaming Wifi – but that’s a relatively low-level motherboard. Our assumption is that AMD will at least try to match the specifications leaked on the Z890 speeds.
Besides the high speeds, everything seems to be pretty normal, with support for 256GB of total memory, and XMP 3.0 support. We’ll see how far these memory speeds will take the Core Ultra series, and just how much a kit of 9000MHz memory will cost. A kit of 32GB 8000MHz will set you back roughly $250.
