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by sliken 1351 days ago
Yup, doubling the memory bandwidth, doubling the memory channels, and doubling the PCIe bandwidth, and switching to DDR5 is placing a premium on the new AM5 platform for AMD. Similar happened with the Alder lake launch, which had the same upgrades and combined with sky high DDR5 memory prices.

Just wait a few months, pioneers are the ones that get the arrows (high prices) in the back side.