G.Skill says they have reached the milestone of DDR5-10000 with air cooling. This satisfying round-number feat was achieved using a single air-cooled Trident Z5 memory module, along with hardware and technical assistance from Asus.
(In other news, G.Skill announced today The high-frequency Trident Z5 DDR5-8000 32GB (16GB x 2) CL40 memory kit is validated for use with Intel’s Core i9-13900K processor and Asus’ ROG Maximus Z790 Apex motherboard (BIOS 0702). )
G.Skill’s eye-popping DDR5-10000 achievement was achieved using only the air cooling used for both the system processor and RAM. Numerically impressive, but the overclocked DDR5 needed to run on a single memory module for the system to be stable enough to validate performance using CPU-Z. It will not be part of the actual PC build.
The screenshot above is a DDR5-10000 result, with CPU-Z showing a double data rate DRAM clock of 5,000 MHz. This confirms that G.Skill used his one of his DDR5-8000 modules with his SK Hynix IC and then overclocked to DDR5-10000.You can check the details from the official CPU-Z verification link.
G.Skill also showcased DDR5-8000 CL40 32GB (2x16GB) and DDR5-7800 CL38 32GB (2x16GB) memory kits validated on Intel Core i9-13900K processor and Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Apex motherboard (BIOS 0702) platform . This is the same platform used for G.Skill’s DDR5-10000 feat, but here the air-cooled memory kit uses a matching pair of RAM modules.
According to G.Skill’s test on AIDA64, the memory bandwidth of the DDR5-8000 kit exceeds 124 GB/s read speed and write speed exceeds 120 GB/s.
It will be interesting to see these (claimed) DDR5 speeds increase rapidly as overclockers get used to Intel’s new generation of processors. Less than two weeks later, G.Skill was hinting that he was working on a Trident Z5 DDR5-8000 memory kit, but now he’s being overshadowed by his 20% faster air cooling achievements.
Observers may expect other memory makers to respond quickly, but the mentioned G.Skill Trident Z5 modules and kits are yet to hit the market. G.Skill has yet to provide any information on shipping times or pricing, so these blistering speeds are nothing more than eye-opening at this point.Fastest Trident Z5 Kit Available now (opens in new tab) It peaks at DDR5-7600 CL36.
