ASUS Confirms DDR5-7200 MT/s JEDEC Support on Intel 800-Series Motherboards With Core Ultra 200S CPUs
ASUS has officially announced that its Intel 800-series motherboards now support JEDEC DDR5-7200 MT/s memory speeds out of the box when paired with the latest Intel Core Ultra 200S (Arrow Lake-S) desktop CPUs. This marks a significant improvement over the default JEDEC 6400 MT/s standard, ensuring higher bandwidth and stability without requiring manual tuning.
Intel 800 series motherboards support JEDEC DDR5-7200 ⚡, delivering faster bandwidth, improved stability, and future-ready performance for gamers and creators alike.💪
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The Intel Core Ultra 200S processors natively support DDR5-6400 MT/s JEDEC speeds, but thanks to robust memory controllers and advanced motherboard engineering, higher frequencies are possible with BIOS tuning via XMP/EXPO profiles. However, ASUS is going a step further by guaranteeing stable operation at DDR5-7200 MT/s without any profile activation, directly at JEDEC specification levels.
This advancement has been made possible through improvements in PCB design, signal integrity, and power delivery, which strengthen the stability of high-speed memory configurations. ASUS demonstrated the achievement using a PRIME Z890-P motherboard paired with an Intel Core Ultra 7 265K CPU and a 32 GB (2x 16 GB) Kingston DDR5-7200 kit. Running in a 1:2 memory controller ratio (controller at 1800 MT/s), the kit operated with timings of CL58-58-58-115 at just 1.10V. Despite looser timings, the configuration passed RunMemtestPro stability tests, confirming JEDEC-compliant DDR5-7200 operation on ASUS 800-series motherboards.
In terms of real-world impact, moving from DDR5-6400 to DDR5-7200 offers an 800 MT/s bandwidth increase, which may deliver performance gains in specific workloads such as content creation, gaming at high resolutions, and data-intensive applications. While the improvements won’t be transformative across all scenarios, the ability to guarantee higher stable memory speeds out of the box represents a clear advantage for ASUS’s 800-series platforms.
With this move, ASUS positions itself ahead of competitors by pushing the boundaries of memory performance on Intel’s Arrow Lake-S platform, ensuring that enthusiasts and professionals alike can achieve greater stability and throughput without relying on custom memory profiles.
Do you think JEDEC-certified DDR5-7200 out of the box will become the new standard for future Intel and AMD platforms, or will higher frequencies remain enthusiast-only territory?
