Reddit users discovered that AMD’s recently revealed Ryzen 8000G “Hawk Point” desktop APUs do not support ECC memory, in contrast to what the AMD website’s initial specifications had said. Since then, the business has subtly changed the information regarding ECC support on its product pages. ECC memory support is meaningless for the vast majority of desktop client use cases, even enthusiast PCs. Having stated that, ECC memory is supported by the memory controllers of “Phoenix” in Ryzen PRO 7000 mobile processors for business laptops, so it makes sense that future Ryzen PRO models for business desktops and notebooks may include it.

Based on 4 nm “Hawk Point” monolithic silicon, the AMD Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G feature a more overclocker-friendly set of DDR5 memory controllers than the Ryzen 7000 “Raphael” processors. The memory controller technically supports ECC in addition to a number of high-frequency DDR5 modes (at least “Phoenix” does, on the Ryzen PRO 7000 mobile processors). A maximum of 256 GB of memory, or 64 GB dual-rank memory modules per slot, is also supported by the memory controller. Furthermore supported DIMM densities are 24 and 48 GB.