Summary
Explains Gear 1 vs Gear 2 DDR4 Memory Speeds Support with 11th Generation Intel® Core™ Desktop Processors
Description
Need to understand the difference between Gear 1 vs Gear 2 DDR4 memory speed support for 11th Generation Intel® Core™ Desktop Processors
Resolution
- Gear 1 means processor memory controller and memory speed are equal.
- Gear 2 means processor memory controller operates at half the memory speed (such as CPU memory controller is at 1600MHz while memory speed is at 3200MHz when operating as Gear 2).
- For DDR4-2933 (or lower speed) :
- All the 11th Gen Intel Core Processors operate in Gear 1, no Gear 2.
- For DDR4-3200:
- i9-11900K and i9-11900KF operate in Gear 1.
- The rest of the 11th Gen Intel Core Processors can operate in Gear 2.