G.SKILL Trident Z 4000MHz DDR4 Memory Kit Review

AIDA64 Extreme Edition 5.30 Beta

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Benchmark Results: On the ASUS Z170-Deluxe motherboard with the Intel Core i7-6700K processor overclocked to 4.6GHz we saw the memory bandwidth on the G.SKILL Trident Z memory kit was 53,791 MB/s read and 58,856 MB/s when averaged for three benchmark runs. This is a nice performance improvement over the lower clocked kits!

Benchmark Results: Similar performance gains were seen on the AIDA64 v5.30 copy test. We averaged 44,500 MB/s with a DDR4 clock frequency of 3466 MHz and ended up at 50,334 MB/s when we topped out at 4000 MHz. This is the first time that we have broken the 50,000 MB/s mark with a retail dual-channel DDR4 memory kit!

Benchmark Results: The latency of the memory decreased as the DDR4 DRAM clock speed increased despite having to loosen the timings in the UEFI along the way. At DDR4-4000 we averaged 39.5ns!