This time, the overclocker utilized two 24 GB DDR5 memory modules to push the speed to 10,200 MT/s, making another world record.
Overclocker hicookie Pushes V-Color 2x 24GB DDR5 Memory Kit to 10200 MT/s on AMD's X870 AORUS Tachyon ICE
Once again, overclockers are in the race to achieve the highest possible memory clock speed, but this submission (via @UnikoHardware) is one of the most impressive we have seen recently. We have reported various overclockers achieving over 10,000 MT/s memory speed on the Intel Z890 platform, but we have rarely heard of such records on the AMD X870 platform.
The Gigabyte's in-house overclocker, 'hicookie', did what seemed impossible initially. With a V-Color DDR5 memory kit, he achieved over 10,000 MT/s of DDR5 memory speed (10,200 MT/s to be exact). While achieving this memory speed on the X870 platform is ridiculously difficult, it's even more impressive when you consider that it was achieved using 2x 24 GB memory modules.
Hicookie used V-Color's DDR5 memory kit that was used on the unreleased Gigabyte X870 AORUS Tachyon ICE motherboard. If you remember, hicookie broke the 10,000 MT/s mark with the V-Color memory on the Gigabyte Z890 AORUS Tachyon ICE last year but used a single memory stick. Pushing two memory sticks to over 10,000 MT/s is difficult on the Z890 platform, let alone the X870 motherboard.
Fortunately, the 10,200 MT/s speed was pretty stable, as shown in the MemTest, which showed zero errors. As far as the timings go, the latency was satisfactory with timings CL50-62-62-127. Hicookie used AMD Ryzen 8700G on the X870 AORUS Tachyon ICE with the AGESA BIOS 1203a. As per the report, this BIOS isn't yet available for other Gigabyte X870 models.
We await the launch of both the X870 AORUS Tachyon ICE and AGESA 1203a, which seem to optimize the DDR5 memory. That said, keep in mind that in real-world tests like apps and games, the 10200 MT/s memory may not bring noticeable performance benefits due to higher memory latency. It's a hobby for world-class overclockers to push the hardware as much as possible.
We still don't know what setup was deployed in this overclocking attempt, but overclockers usually use nitrogen cooling to achieve high frequencies for both CPUs and memory.
