Windows 11 memory allocation

• A third bank group bit (BG2) was added, allowing up to eight bank groups.

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DDR5 SDRAM - Wikipedia

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DDR5 doubles the number of bank groups while leaving the number of banks per bank group the same. Increasing banks groups is key as bank accesses to different bank groups require less time delay between accesses, compared to bank accesses within the same bank group. Banks within the same bank groups share local I/O routing, sense amplifiers, and array blocks, which introduce longer timing constraints. Doubling the total overall banks is also key as this improves overall system efficiency by allowing more pages to be open at any given time, thereby increasing the statistical probability of high page-hit ratios.

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DDR5: The Next Step in System Level Performance: Part II

In this follow-up blog, I discuss, in a little more detail, some of the features on DDR5 that allow performance gains and scaling capability.

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Multiple Banks (Interleaving) and Channels
• Multiple banks

• Enable concurrent DRAM accesses​

• Bits in address determine which bank an address resides in​

• Multiple independent channels serve the same purpose

• But they are even better because they have separate data buses​

• Increased bus bandwidth​

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Multiple Open Banks
– Open Banks make for faster access IF your going to that bank on the
next access…performance hit if your not
– Power hit when banks are open

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