G.Skill kicked off 2025 with high-performance memory for motherboards with AMD’s X870 chipset. The Taiwan-based memory maker aimed the fine-tuned modules at gamers and overclockers running AMD Ryzen 7000 through 9000 series CPUs. This time around, the company has new gear for Intel Core Ultra users and has tested them on boards with Intel Z790 and 7890 chipsets. As with the AMD-centric memory modules, you have a choice: larger capacity or tighter timings. G.Skill plans to make the memory kits available sometime in March.

If high-capacity DDR5 RAM is your goal, you’re looking at the DDR5-6800 CL32 modules. They have respectable timings of their own, CL32-42-42, and are available in 96GB (2x48GB), 64GB (2x32GB), 48GB (2x24GB), and 32GB (2x16GB) kits. The memory kits come in three flavors: Ripjaws M RGB, Trident Z5 RGB, and Trident Z5 Royal. The Ripjaws line has the most basic heatsink and style, but all three lines have RGB LED lighting. More importantly, the Ripjaws line has a lower-profile heatsink than its siblings, which is useful for cramped setups. The Trident Z5 Royal’s lighting is designed to look like gemstones, which is an unusual look for PC hardware, but we’re not judging: It’s not like any other LEDs are subtle.

The DDR5-6400 CL28 kit is only available in 32GB capacities, but G.Skill offers it in the same Ripjaws and Trident brands as the DDR5-6800 kits. All of the kits G.Skill just launched support Intel’s XMP overclock profiles, which are meant to make for easy, low-risk overclocking. AMD has a similar controlled-overclocking feature, known as Expo. If you’re unfamiliar with these memory overclocking tools, restart your PC and jump into the BIOS menus. For many gamers, having tools like this is perfect: You get the satisfaction of knowing you’re pushing your hardware beyond its stock settings without taking on the risk of pushing things too far.

G.Skill likes to prove its memory’s capabilities by putting them through the same benchmark software reviewers use, which is Memtest. To that end, it put together test benches. One features an Intel Core Ultra 7 265K CPU on an Asus ROG Maximus Z890 Hero motherboard. The other test system is based on an Intel Core i9-14900K CPU on an Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Dark Hero board. G.Skill opted for the 96GB capacity when validating the DDR5-6800 CL32 kit.

By: DocMemory
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