A Closer Look

The Neo Forza TRINITY modules are only available in black with or without RGB lighting. These are also a complete redesign and bear no resemblance to its DDR4 siblings. That is, besides the same Neo Forza logo front and center found on a majority of the company's products.


Right in the center of one side is the Neo Forza logo, while the other side has Neo Forza written in plain text. These both contrast nicely to the bushed aluminium heatspreaders.


Laying the DIMMs on the side, you can see the words Neo Forza written in white text and direct contrast to the black heatspreaders


On one side of each DIMM module is the identification sticker listing the SKU, rated XMP operating frequency, and CAS value. These specifications are a bit harder to read without prior understanding of the formatting. The first two lines of text contain technical specifications useful to the buyer. Missing is the operating voltage, which is helpful to have, but should not be overly concerning due to the DDR5-6000 XMP profile only needing 1.30 V.


The Neo Forza TRINITY DDR5-6000 kit weighs in at 43 grams on the scale. For Z-height, it is 40 mm rounding up with the calipers.


Taking these apart we can see Neo Forza has thermal tape on both sides over the ICs. This particular kit does not have any coverage for the PMIC and surrounding components.


After removing the heatspreader, a double-sided PCB revealed, with eight 2 GB ICs per side for a total of 32 GB for each DIMM. One thing that stands out here is that some of the components that surround the PMIC on single-sided PCBs, have been placed on the other side for these.


A closer look at the ICs shows that these are SK Hynix (H5CG48MEBDX014). Currently, Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix are the three big suppliers of DDR5 ICs. When it comes to overclocking, the general consensus is that SK Hynix does provide the highest frequencies, scales better with higher voltage and has the ability to offer low primary timings that are equal, if not better than the rest. The newly released SK Hynix A-Die can go even further. The kit we have here today is using M-Die, which is the predecessor, but is still quite good in regards to overclocking. In fact the timings can go a bit lower versus A-Die, but the modules can't clock as high in frequency and require more overall voltage for similar timings and configuration.


With DDR5, one of the major changes is how the motherboard directly provides 5 V to the memory module's PMIC, which is then stepped down and split accordingly. No longer is the motherboard responsible for regulating the voltages seen with DDR4. The PMIC on this memory has part number "5100-X50K12" which shows up at "GMT." A quick google search and Global Mixed-Mode Technology comes up as the manufacturer.