Quote Originally Posted by DarthShader View Post
Ask him, if only two memory channels are enough to feed 8 cores with data. Thuban stopps scaling at 4 cores and beyond. (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ng,2652-4.html , last table)

I guess it's okay, since situations where memory bandwidth saturation might happen are rather uncommon. And a 980X saturates pretty fast too. (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ng,2663-4.html , last table).

Been wondering nevertheless.
AMD already said publicly that memory BW will be 1.5x higher with Interlagos,with the same number of mem. channels(4). This is achieved partially by improved/redesigned IMC(30%) and support for higher clocked DDR3 memory (20%;1333->1600Mhz).


Zambezi should support 1866 memory and have the same redesigned IMC with the same 30% uplift versus Thuban's.