Intel Core i5-12600K Alder Lake DDR4 vs DDR5 Performance

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AIDA64 Memory Bandwidth and Cache Performance

We are now going to utilize AIDA64’s Cache & Memory Benchmark to look at memory bandwidth as well as memory and L1, L2, and L3 cache latencies.

Memory Read

Intel Core i5-12600K Alder Lake DDR4 vs DDR5 Performance AIDA64 Memory Read

This is where DDR5 can show off its massive bandwidth advantage. In memory read performance DDR4 is at 56GB/s but DDR5 at 5200 is at 76GB/s, that’s a 35% improvement in memory bandwidth!

Memory Write

Intel Core i5-12600K Alder Lake DDR4 vs DDR5 Performance AIDA64 Memory Write

The same is true in memory write performance but to a slightly lesser degree. We move from 56GB/s of DDR4 to 73GB/s with DDR5, an increase of 30%.

Memory Copy

Intel Core i5-12600K Alder Lake DDR4 vs DDR5 Performance AIDA64 Memory Copy

Memory copy performance has also increased from 52GB/s to 71GB/s, an increase of 35%.

AIDA64 Cache & Memory Benchmark

We now want to show you the complete AIDA64 Cache & Memory Benchmark so you can also see the latencies between the RAM.

DDR4

Intel Core i5-12600K Alder Lake DDR4 vs DDR5 Performance DDR4 AIDA64 Cache and Memory Benchmark

With DDR4 the Latencyh is 76.1ns.

DDR5

Intel Core i5-12600K Alder Lake DDR4 vs DDR5 Performance DDR5 AIDA64 Cache and Memory Benchmark

We actually see the Memory Latency increase with DDR5 up to 82.1ns. That’s an 8% increase in Memory Latency. L2 and L3 Cache copy performance seem to be higher with DDR5, but otherwise, everything else is very similar.

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