G.SKILL Trident Z5 Neo RGB DDR5 8000MT/s EXPO Memory Review – Is DDR5-8000 Worth It on AMD Ryzen?

In Cinebench 2026 with the RAM at 4800MT/s, we are getting a score of 8853. It seems that any EXPO profile above that does wonders for Cinebench 2026 performance. Using the 6000MT/s CL28 memory, the performance increases by 5%. We don’t see much improvement beyond that, though 8200MT/s is showing the highest performance, and compared to 4800MT/s is a 7% improvement overall.

In Blender, we don’t see a lot of movement in the monster benchmark. Overall, the fastest RAM configuration is actually 6000MT/s at CL28, with the technically fastest performance at just 1% faster than 4800MT/s.

In the junkshop test, though, things are a bit different. There is a clear progression of performance improvement as you go up in frequency. The 6000MT/s CL28 memory is 2% faster than 4800MT/s, but 8000MT/s doesn’t really add a whole lot over that.

Much is the same with classroom; we don’t see huge differences in this application with RAM speeds.

This is really interesting; when transcoding video on the CPU, there is a clear improvement with faster speeds of memory. With the memory at 4800MT/s, it took 7.55 minutes to render. However, even with 6000MT/s CL28, that was reduced down to 7.32 minutes. On long renders, this will make a bigger difference. We even saw a further improvement with DDR5 at 8000MT/s and 8200MT/s at 7.28 minutes to complete.

In V-Ray 6, there was a slight improvement of 2% with faster DDR5, but once we got to 6000MT/s CL28, there wasn’t much improvement beyond that.

In 7-Zip, there were huge differences with compression based on DDR5 RAM frequency. At 4800MT/s, we were getting 175 GIPS, but increasing to 6000MT/s CL28 increased performance by 15% up to 202 GIPS. We saw further improvement still by using DDR5 8000MT/s with a further 1.3% improvement, but 8200MT/s pushed it even higher with another 2%.

The same, however, is not true for decompression; we do see the 6000MT/s CL28 stand out here at 2% faster.