Gigabyte's in-house overclocker, Hicookie, has once again set a new DDR5 memory world record on the Z890 AORUS Tacyhon ICE.

DDR5 memory world record continues coming in, and it looks like Gigabyte is leading the race with the top 3 positions currently held by the motherboard maker & its OC-ready motherboard, the Z890 AORUS Tachyon ICE. Just last month, the motherboard broke past the 13,000 MT/s DDR5 frequency barrier, and continues to push that record spree further.

The latest DDR5 memory frequency record comes from none other than Hicookie, who achieved this record feat on the same Gigabyte Z890 AORUS Tachyon ICE motherboard. The test setup featured an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K CPU with its E-Cores disabled, and a single module of Adata's XPG Lancer RGB DDR5 memory.

The single 24 GB DDR5 module was overclocked to 6517.4 MHz effective to achieve a transfer rate of 13,034 MT/s. The CAS timings were set at 68-127-127-127-2. This is over a 2x uplift over the stock DDR5-6400 speeds that the modules support and a 2.72x uplift over the initial JEDEC 4800 MT/s speeds for DDR5 memory. Both the CPU and the memory were put under LN2 cooling to achieve the world record.

With the latest entry, there's no doubt that overclockers still have some room left to squeeze out more frequency out of DDR5 memory. Such memory speeds won't be of much benefit in typical use cases but showcase the OC potential of the current DDR standards. We aren't likely to see such speeds even in the upcoming DDR6 generation of memory modules, as those are likely to start somewhere close to 10,000 MT/s, but we can expect over 20K MT/s speeds once more mature platforms arrive. We expect DDR6 to roll out sometime around 2027.

By: DocMemory
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