Friday, September 8th 2017
G.SKILL Announces New DDR4-4600 MHz Extreme Performance Trident Z Memory Kit
G.SKILL International Enterprise Co., Ltd., the world's leading manufacturer of extreme performance memory and gaming peripherals, is excited to announce a new extreme speed DDR4 memory kits at DDR4-4600MHz CL19! Built with hand-selected, high-quality Samsung B-die IC components, this new addition to the flagship Trident Z series will be available in two color variations: silver aluminum body with white accent bar and black aluminum body with black accent bar.Previously, the speed of DDR4-4600MHz was only achievable under extreme overclocking with liquid nitrogen cooling. Now, designed for extreme speed dual-channel memory operation on the latest Intel X299 high-end desktop platform, G.SKILL is once again raising the limits on DDR4 memory speed to DDR4-4600MHz CL19-23-23-43 at 1.5V, with a total capacity of 16GB (8GBx2). The following stress test screenshot shows the new memory kit in action, validated with an Intel Kaby Lake-X Core i7-7740X processor on the new ASRock X299 OC Formula motherboard:Intel XMP 2.0 Support & Availability
This new high performance Trident Z kit is designed with Intel XMP 2.0 support, and the two variations of Trident Z DDR4-4600MHz memory kit are scheduled for release via G.SKILL authorized distribution partners at the end of September 2017.
This new high performance Trident Z kit is designed with Intel XMP 2.0 support, and the two variations of Trident Z DDR4-4600MHz memory kit are scheduled for release via G.SKILL authorized distribution partners at the end of September 2017.
31 Comments on G.SKILL Announces New DDR4-4600 MHz Extreme Performance Trident Z Memory Kit
Well actually it should do 3200Mhz CL14 with manual timings on a decent board. The world is not ready for such speeds :D That was obviously a stab at the extremey small screenshot posted with the news.
Personally i still don't like that these high speed kits are 2x8GB. Where are 2x16GB high speed kits? The highest is DDR4-3866 CL18 2x16GB. Here's hoping they bump that to atleast 4000 now.
Bit of speculation too: DDR5 will likely launch with DDR5-3200 or DDR5-3466 default speeds (like DDR4-2133 is now). So DDR4-4600 would already be well into supposed DDR5 performnance territory wich is pretty amazing.
I mean who the hell is using dual-channel RAMs on an X~ platform anyways??
Also I wouldn't wanna run anything close to 1.5v for memory on a DDR4 based system, that's just asking for trouble.
Kaby Lake X is soon to be dead anyway once Coffee Lake lands.
Just the engineering excellence that is required to make these two different CPUs, KabyLake-X, without IVR, and SkyLake-X, with IVR, work in the same motherboard, has been grossly understated by most reviewers, simply because of a lack of understanding of what these CPUs do, and what HEDT really is for, that permeates a huge majority of the review industry.
Also you neglect to mention the fact that 4 to 18 core support is not universal to all X299 motherboards. Some boards straight up do not support the quadcores and there are a few boards that only support quadcores. Also current AM4 may run 4-8 cores but AMD has stated AM4 will keep going for 3-4 years wich means over time we will likely see higher core count Zen 2 and Zen 3 on it coexisting with currents processors.
I think the backlash against Kaby Lake-X would have not been half as bad if Intel had provided quadcores with full platform featureset support (44 or atleast 28+ PCI-E lanes and quad channel memory support). THEN i would agree that Kaby Lake-X is a great starting point to jump into X299 platform. As it stands how many people will buy a 350-400$ processor as a placeholder on X299 until they can afford something better? I'd say not many and Amazon statistics confirm this looking at Kaby Lake-X sales numbers.
Coffee Lake will offer higher core count, slightly higher IPC and lower platform costs compared to Kaby Lake-X while offering better performance using less power. If Kaby Lake-X is a bad buy now it will be a stupid buy after October 5th.
Cheers for the MHz and MT/s explanation. I should have known that but never bothered looking it up.