G.Skill Trident Z5 schwarz UDIMM 32GB Kit, DDR5-6000, CL36-36-36-96

Mit den Alder-Lake-Prozessoren führte Intel den DDR5-Speicher in den Endkundenmarkt ein. Irgendwann in der zweiten Jahreshälfte wird dann auch AMD mit dem Wechsel auf den Sockel AM5 auf den neuen Speicher setzen. DDR5 hat den Ruf noch nicht ausgereift zu sein, was sich vor allem auf die verfügbaren Module bezieht, die gerade anfangs keine hohen Transferraten und zugleich niedrige Timings erreichen konnten.

In this review of the most excellent TridentZ5 kit from G.Skill we wanted to show you the effect of frequency and performance scaling. Our initial DDR4 versus DDR5 memory already showed that a CL16 DDR4 kit at 3600 MHz, easily can compete with DDR5 5200 CL40. Both configurations are considered the sweet spot memories in combination with Alder Lake Gen 12 Core Intel processors. I call that a sweet spot due to pricing and overall performance, nothing less. If you are willing to spend more money on DDR5 then latency is where it's matters, really it's pandora's box as this article should have learned you that CL36 at 5200 MHZ is definitely faster than CL40 at 5200 MHz. When you have CL36 memory, then frequency really is starting to become irrelevant as long as you stay above 4800 MHz. Yes, there is a tangible per differential in between 4800 and 6000 MHz, however, the price differential will make a rather too big of a difference for me. So in short, latency matters more than frequency, by a significant statistical value even. This does bring back the discussion of how relevant DDR5 memory actually is over DDR4. However strictly speaking if we take an RTX 3090 and look at gaming, we can measure tangible result scaling upwards in frequency, and most definitely latency. DDR5 is the way forward, there's no doubt about it, in due time frequencies will go up and latency values will come down. And that last bit is somewhat the bigger part of the riddle, as latency is quite high with DDR5.