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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Zhiye Liu

AMD 3D V-Cache enables RAM disk to hit 182 GB/s speeds — over 12X faster than the fastest PCIe 5.0 SSDs

AMD Ryzen
RAM disk on AMD Ryzen 3D V-Cache CPU.

Who would have thought that the best CPUs could rival the best SSDs? Apparently, it's possible to run a RAM disk on AMD's Ryzen 3D V-Cache processors and achieve sequential read and write speeds that blow even the fastest PCIe 5.0 SSDs out of the water.

The enigma started with an intriguing screenshot shared by our cooling expert Albert Thomas, where a RAM disk delivered sequential read and write speeds around 178 GB/s and 163 GB/s, respectively, in CrystalDiskMark. What stood out was that the results were reportedly from a RAM disk running on AMD's Ryzen 7 7800X3D processor.

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