Asus ROG has announced that one of its motherboards has been used to achieve the DDR5 memory frequency world record. Overclocker Lupin No Musume achieved DDR5-10552 memory speeds using a system based around an Asus ROG Maximus Z690 Apex motherboard.
In the video below you can see Lupin No Musume verify the world record memory clocks in CPU-Z. To the left of the monitor display, you'll see the overclocker artfully kept the liquid nitrogen topped up to keep the system from overheating. To the right, an oscilloscope adds a further layer of verification to the memory clock achieved. We have seen overclockers add this kind of video evidence recently, to prove there is no frequency over-reporting software bug being exploited.
With Lupin No Musume's DDR5-10552 achievement firmly at the top of the table on HWBot, the top three positions with DDR5-10K+ scores, come from Asus, MSI and Gigabyte, respectively. Check the table below to see the respective system configurations used for the top three records.
Lupin No Musume | Kovan Yang | Hicookie | |
|---|---|---|---|
Position | 1 | 2 | 3 |
DDR5 OC achieved | 10552 | 10508 | 10223 |
RAM brand | Asus ROG | Intel | Intel |
Motherboard | Asus ROG Maximus Z690 Apex | MSI MEG Z690 Unify-X (MS-7D28) | Gigabyte Aorus Z690 Tachyon |
Processor config | i9-12900K @ 3.7 GHz, 4x P-cores | i9-12900KS @ 429 MHz, 2x E-cores | i9-12900K @ 2.1 GHz, 2x P-cores |
It's cool to see that three major motherboard brands can all achieve record-breaking performance, and no particular brand is dominant here. We just need to see DDR5-10K+ from an ASRock motherboard based system for a full-house. (Though ASRock has an entry at position 8.)
Another interesting point to see in the tabulated results, is that each overclocking expert took a slightly different tack with their processor configuration. You can see that sometimes performance cores were used, while others used efficiency cores, and at a range of clock speeds.
The newest and highest scoring DDR5-10552 world record score saw Lupin No Musume use four active Alder Lake processor P-cores, running at 3692.25 MHz. The single Asus ROG 16GB memory stick had a JEDEC rating of DDR5-4800, a lot slower than the record achieved.
We previously reported on DDR5 world records by both Hicookie , and Koven Yang , both from April this year. Both have improved on those scores in the meantime, but Lupin No Musume enjoys quite a clear lead as of this writing.
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