Gigabyte has announced a record memory speed for its latest LGA1851 motherboards. The brand’s managed to reach 10,600MT/s using a Z890 board and CUDIMM DDR5 RAM.
HiCookie has achieved a new speed record on Gigabyte’s LGA1851 boards. Equipped with a Z890 Aorus Tachyon Ice, the overclocker managed to hit 10,600MT/s transfer speed using two 24GB Vcolor CUDIMM DDR5 modules. Unlike many records where the memory timings are a bit ridiculous, this time they are tighter at 48-58-58-140. This makes us wonder if this board can push even higher frequencies on its CAMM2 version.
While the company didn’t communicate cooling requirements, we know the system was powered by Intel’s 20-core Core Ultra 7 265K CPU clocked at 5.5GHz. Funnily enough, the RAM itself was running at 5.3GHz. For those unfamiliar, DDR is short for Double Data Rate, meaning the memory can send twice the data each cycle, hence reaching heights of 10,600MT/s.
This also shows the benefit of integrating a clock regenerator directly into the CUDIMM modules. Not to forget the quality and convenience offered by the Aorus Tachyon, including toolkits, toggle switches, voltage detection functions, and debug indicators. You can bet CPU overclocking records will follow soon, as Intel Core Ultra 200 Series has officially launched today.
If you’re wondering why they didn’t use the faster Core Ultra 9 285K, the reason is simple. This operation taxes the memory controller, which is the same on both CPU models. In fact, lower-tier chips are often used for such achievement as they seem to be more stable.
Though no one in their right mind would combine such high-end hardware to play games using the iGPU, I would love to see how such speedy RAM would influence its performance. Until then, this is one hell of an achievement, with hopefully more to come.