G.Skill Trident Z5 Royal DDR5-6400MT/s 64GB Review

The G.SKILL Trident Z5 Royal memory comes in a smart hard box with the product name printed on a narrow cardboard sleeve that slips over the box.

The front of the box just has the G.Skill logo on the front. The rear of the box has G.SKILL contact and warranty information, as well as the product sticker holding the module's information.

The modules come with a protective clear peel-off plastic cover on both sides and  G.Skill provide a cleaning cloth in the box which comes in handy as the mirror finish is a real fingerprint magnet once you remove the plastic cover.

Built on a 10-layer PCB the modules are a dual-rank design with eight 2 GB SK Hynix A-Die ICs (H5CG48AEBDX018) on each side along with a Richtek RTQ5132GQWF power management IC (PMIC). The CNC-cut aluminium heat speader cover is electroplated with a mirror finish in a choice of two colours, silver (the review sample) and a very fetching gold finish. Finishing off the already impressive-looking module is a crystalline light bar covering the LEDs.

The memory runs at DDR5-4800 with timings of 40-40-40-77 natively with the single XMP 3.0 profile supporting DDR5-6400 with 32-39-39-102 timings at 1.4V.

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