Although with a bit of cheating, we have already been able to see a 11GHz RAMand that is, SEBY9123, an American known for this type of feat, has achieved the fastest memory in the world by doing overclocking and surpassing the previous record, which was also achieved thanks to this “trick”.
For now we cannot say that we have achieved RAM memories with that speed, but it does show that we are not far from going to the market with it natively and safely.
The fastest RAM memory reaches 11 GHz
The record has been reached by an expert user in overclocking, which is not the first time that something like this has surprised us. have used a i9-13900K processorin a motherboard with Z790 chipset in which he had to activate only two processor cores at a speed of 2.2 GHz to avoid overheating and improve RAM performance, as well as disable the HyperThreading function. For overclocking, he used a memory module G.Skill Z5 RGB DDR5and to maintain an adequate temperature throughout the process, he used liquid nitrogen or LN2
The actual frequency reached was a DDR5 at 11,202 MHz with its corresponding memory controller speed at 5601 MHz. This figure is well above what both memory modules and integrated controllers in Intel or AMD CPUs can currently support.
so far the previous world record speed for DDR5 memory was 5567.5 MHz (11135 MT/s), which was done by Hicookie. The difference is not very big since they are using techniques that squeeze the RAM 100%, something that a normal user could not do since we do not usually have components of these characteristics or liquid nitrogen at hand, for example.
This leads us to think that, with the current evolution of all the components, we will soon see this record broken again.
Samsung has already told us about its 36 Gbps GDDR7Therefore, sooner rather than later we will see a new jump in speed and quality in RAM memories, which will lead these users to be able to break records again in a much more prominent way. For now we are left with this curiosity waiting for new data, who will be the next to beat it? Technology is advancing by leaps and bounds, I don’t know if we will be able to take advantage of so much power, although they always surprise us with new uses.
Will we be able to reach this speed in commercial products?
As we always say, the records that are achieved by overclocking have little to do with what, in the end, 99.9% of users have on our home PCs; however, if memory manufacturers sponsor these competitions it is because they are interested in seeing how far their products can go under the right conditions, and from there they can then try to “stretch” their performance into commercial products.
But answering the question, in the short and medium term it would be difficult to find such fast RAM memory, although it is true that in the future and especially in later generations of RAM memory, it is not an unattainable figure; After all, with DDR5 RAM we’re already seeing speeds twice that of DDR4, so when DDR6 arrives it wouldn’t be an unusual sight to see.
