G.Skill Trident Z5 DIMM DDR5

G.Skill does have a really outstanding CL32 memory kit available with the TridentZ5, at 6400 MHz, this memory kicks ass, however, the 550 EUR price tag makes it difficult to justify a purchase. You get DIMMs with a lifetime guarantee and a programmable RGB system for that price. If you ever convert to a motherboard with a green theme instead of a red color theme, you may adjust your DIMMs RGB LEDs to match. The TridentZ5 series DIMMs are a powerful product series aimed at a very specialized set of people: those who want the uber-fast things at the upper end of the range and with a niche-designed PC, then enthusiast-class PC gamer. The new DDR5 standard allows for greater frequencies at lower working voltages, but at the penalty of increased latencies. Given this, it makes it logical for G.Skill to provide a variety of DDR5 families and wide options to choose from. Purchase the Ripjaws S5 5200 MHz as a good starting point for fans seeking progressively higher performance, and for the enthusiasts and tweakers, the Tested CL32 6400 MHz TridentZ5 series. We'll stick to our earlier recommendations. 5,200MT/s at CL will be enough; CL 36, is certainly more suggested, and CL32 is fantastic but at a high expense. In terms of performance, G.Skill delivers a renowned kit that, in our opinion, is worth extra money over a similar-capacity 5,200MT/s set? Well, that's a question that only you the end-user can answer. Regardlessly, this is a fantastic memory kit to own.

G.Skill does have a really outstanding CL32 memory kit available with the TridentZ5, at 6400 MHz, this memory kicks ass, however, the 550 EUR price tag makes it difficult to justify a purchase. You get DIMMs with a lifetime guarantee and a programmable RGB system for that price. If you ever convert to a motherboard with a green theme instead of a red color theme, you may adjust your DIMMs RGB LEDs to match. The TridentZ5 series DIMMs are a powerful product series aimed at a very specialized set of people: those who want the uber-fast things at the upper end of the range and with a niche-designed PC, then enthusiast-class PC gamer. The new DDR5 standard allows for greater frequencies at lower working voltages, but at the penalty of increased latencies. Given this, it makes it logical for G.Skill to provide a variety of DDR5 families and wide options to choose from. Purchase the Ripjaws S5 5200 MHz as a good starting point for fans seeking progressively higher performance, and for the enthusiasts and tweakers, the Tested CL32 6400 MHz TridentZ5 series. We'll stick to our earlier recommendations. 5,200MT/s at CL will be enough; CL 36, is certainly more suggested, and CL32 is fantastic but at a high expense. In terms of performance, G.Skill delivers a renowned kit that, in our opinion, is worth extra money over a similar-capacity 5,200MT/s set? Well, that's a question that only you the end-user can answer. Regardlessly, this is a fantastic memory kit to own.

G.SKILL is testing waters with the Trident Z5 DDR5-6400, an ultra-low latency kit. With impressive timings of 32-39-39-102, G.SKILL is pulling out all the stops. Tag along as we put the Trident Z5 DDR5-6400 through its paces!

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.

The G.Skill kit that we checked provides a default frequency (5600 MHz) that will be enough for practically all users, and the XMP 3.0 profile makes life a lot easier. The stock performance is in a range of expected (very close to the high-end). There’s some headroom still available, so if you want more, you can try to overclock the memory even further. The reviewed kit on our Z690 platform made it possible to achieve 6200 MHz with CL36. It’s a great result; you need to remember that those are 16 GB modules. As we usually state – reproducibility is never guaranteed, and your results may vary. The low-profile heat spreader (42 mm), so you shouldn’t encounter any clearance problems with most air CPU coolers. The 32 GB option is a lot for most users nowadays. The price for this 2 x 16 GB kit is ~400 USD, which is expensive, but you need to remember that it’s high-end RAM and also from the (probably most) famous memory manufacturer. The current price for the DDR5s is very steep (mainly due to the shortage of the PMIC), and it still doesn’t look to be lower in the coming days. We can give G.Skill a “Guru3D Recommended” award for this very fast, overclockable, and capable kit. The only real downside (same as for the majority of the DDR5s) is the price that most users cannot accept for the moment, especially compared to the DDR4 kits, which don’t have much worse performance results (for now, at least compared to the current available DDR5 memories).