G.Skill has presented a number of RAM kits which, with high clock frequencies and low timing, exploit the memory controllers in processors and are aimed at hobbyists. The manufacturer brings most of them within the TridentZ Neo series, which are tested in conjunction with Ryzen processors, but also run in Intel systems.

There is about one 32 – GByte- Kit consisting of two DDR4 3800 modules including tighten 18 – 16 – 18 – 38 – timings. One step below that, G.Skill offers a DDR4 3600 kit with two 15 – GByte modules that 14 – 16 – 16 – 36 – creates timings. Both variants were previously only available with 8 GByte bars – the new ones should come in dual instead of single-rank design, which can improve performance in CPU-heavy scenarios.

Kit Capacity Timings rows DDR4 – 3600 2 or 4 × 16 GByte 14 – 15 – 15 – 35 TridentZ Neo DDR4 – 3800 2 × 16 GByte 14 – 16 – 15 – 36 TridentZ Neo DDR4 – 4000 2 × 16 GByte 16 – 19 – 19 – 39 TridentZ Neo, TridentZ, TridentZ Royal, Ripjaws V DDR4 – 4000 2 × 16 GByte 18 – 18 – 18 – 38 TridentZ Neo DDR4 – 4000 2 × 32 GByte 18 – 19 – 22 – 42 TridentZ Neo DDR4 – 4400 2 × 8 GByte 16 – 19 – 19 – 39 TridentZ, TridentZ Royal, Ripjaws V For enthusiasts High RAM clock frequencies and low timings help in particular ere in 3D games to increase the frame rate as long as the graphics card does not limit the frame rate. However, the kits mentioned above go to the limits of processors and require optimization of voltages and, if necessary, resistances. With high prices from experience, they are therefore aimed at users who want to tickle the last percent of performance out of their systems.

Since the 1500 series, AMD’s Ryzen CPUs have tolerated memory clock frequencies far beyond the 1500 MHz (DDR4 – 3000). The current 5000 he series like the Ryzen 9 5950 X use the same I / O die including integrated DDR4 controller as Ryzen 3000. However, AMD’s Technical Marketing Leader Robert Hallock writes on Reddit that the Infinity Fabric interconnect, the I / O die and CPU chiplets in Ryzen – 4400 – connects CPUs with each other and is coupled to the RAM frequency, tolerates a little more clock.

The DDR4 – 3800 of Ryzen 3000 should therefore the DDR4 – 4000 of the Ryzen 5000: Not all processors can keep up with the RAM and Infinity Fabric clock, but hobbyists should be able to achieve it with good copies. DDR4 – 3600, on the other hand, should be available on almost all systems without great effort. But be careful: AMD gives the Ryzen – 4400 – CPUs officially only for DDR4 – 3200 free, everything beyond that corresponds to an overclocking.

(mma)