AMD offers EXPO (EXtended Profiles for Overclocking) for DDR5 overclocking

It was reported in January this year that AMD would release a new technology called RAMP on the AM5 platform on the desktop. The full name is Ryzen Accelerated Memory Profile, which will be added to the preset overclocking profiles of high-end memory modules to replace A-XMP in the era of DDR4 memory as a response to Intel’s Alder Lake platform and its XMP 3.0.

According to VideoCardz, AMD does have a new technology involving DDR5 memory overclocking, but the name is not RAMP, but EXPO, which is called EXTended Profiles for Overclocking. In fact, AMD submitted the EXPO trademark in February this year. According to the description of the document, it is obviously related to memory, but it did not explain the specific technical content involved.

It is understood that EXTended Profiles for Overclocking will store two memory overclocking profiles for DDR5 memory. The first profile will be optimized for high bandwidth usage, and the second one will focus on low latency and is an optional item. EXPO will contain all types of DDR5 memory including UDIMM, RDIMM, and SO-DIMM. This means that EXPO is not limited to desktop platforms and will likely end up on notebooks at some point, while the current Ryzen 6000 series codenamed Rembrandt is limited to DDR5-4800/LPDR5-6400 memory.

Earlier, Joseph Tao, AMD’s memory enabling manager, said in the Meet The Experts webinar, “Our first DDR5 platform for gaming is our Raphael platform and one of the awesome things about Raphael is that we are really gonna try to make a big splash with overclocking and I’ll just kinda leave it there but speeds that you maybe thought couldn’t be possible, may be possible with this overclocking spec.“

It is speculated that the “overclocking” mentioned by Joseph Tao may refer to both the CPU core frequency based on the Zen 4 architecture and the frequency of DDR5 memory. Joseph Tao’s statement made players look forward to what AMD will do next in overclocking.