GIGABYTE has announced a new world record in DDR5 memory overclocking with the Z890 AORUS TACHYON ICE motherboard and Corsair Vengeance DDR5 modules. The record was set by professional overclocker “Saltycroissant”, which at one point claimed to break the 13,000 MT/s barrier (though still unverified at this time).
GIGABYTE Snatches DDR5 Record
In case you aren’t familiar, the Z890 AORUS TACHYON ICE motherboard is not your run-of-the-mill flagship: it’s designed specifically for extreme overclocking, with features like all-digital power design, shortcut keys, toggle switches, and voltage detection functions to offer overclockers high degree of control for pushing performance limits of various components.
As mentioned, Saltycroissant claimed earlier that the 13,000 MT/s barrier has been broken (with a CPU-Z screenshot), though this speed is still not officially registered on the HWBot database at the time of GIGABYTE’s announcement. On the company’s part, it says the new record stands at a smidge lower than that – at 12,920 MT/s. If you haven’t figured out by now, all of these numbers are only achievable through extreme overclocking, so don’t expect this kind of speed to reach a memory module near you soon (not until DDR6, at least).
Pokdepinion: Just need that extra bit of clock speed.
