Does the DDR3 240 pin address bus run all 3 channels at once or cycle through the 3 channels?

 

NOTE: 240 - 3X64(192 for 3X64 bit data busses ) = 48 remaining line for address bus and control.

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Edited: 11/24/2012 at 11:26 AM by wesworld1

I'm not 100% sure, yet I believe it runs them simultainiously. In cases that make use of all 3 channels the theoretical max bandwhich could never be archived otherwise.

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If it were able to be used in ganged or independent modes, by cycling through the channels, I wonder if that would give programmers more flexibility?  

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In case of exclsive access maybe, yet RAM in a PC is very unlikely to be accessed exclusivly by a single aplication, and having different application access the same RAM in different access modes sounds like a recipe for disaster to me.

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Let's say you have a 6 core processor, 2 cores working on an 64 bit channel, would that not be like having 3 dual core 64 bit computers on one motherboard?

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I think you're confusing terminology here...

The "3" in DDR3 does not mean there are three streams of data traveling between CPU and memory.  That depends on the motherboard, memory controller, and how the memory slots are populated.

A memory module is just a place to store things.  The decisions made on when and how data gets from point A to point B are made elsewhere.

What you're probably thinking of is ganged vs unganged mode, which has to do with how each channel talks with its memory controller.  In ganged mode, the channels are synchronized and send data to the CPU in a big block.  In unganged mode, each memory controller is free to operate independently from the other.

In terms of software, it helps to be aware of these lower details in order to avoid doing something boneheaded, but in general they're hidden and programmers have little or no direct control on when and how they happen.

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The memory controllers have two modes ganged or inter levied, alternating back and forth, so I don't think they are not being hooked to the motherboard bus lines at the same time.

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Edited: 11/24/2012 at 04:39 PM by wesworld1

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