Monday, August 18th 2025

Colorful Reveals DDR5-6400 RAM Overclocked to 9600 MT/s

Colorful claims that it can run a pair of its 16 GB iGame Shadow II DDR5-6400 memory modules in dual-channel at up to 9600 MT/s on an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D with a pretty stark overclock. This particular result was achieved with slightly stretched out timings, at CL30 vs the stock 28, and by running the UCLK and MCLK with the usual 1:2 ratio. Complete stability was achieved by dropping the overclock to 9200 MT/s with CL32, suggesting there was some instability at the bleeding edge. Read more about AMD Zen 5 and DDR5 in our article "DDR5 Memory Performance Scaling with AMD Zen 5"

Colorful's testing was validated in RunMemTestPro, and Colorful ran a third test, this time trying to chase lower latencies by tightening up the timings, reducing the memory clock, and running the UCLK and MCLK in 1:1 mode, usually reserved for DDR5 RAM running at 6000 MT/s or less. For this test, Colorful swapped the CPU for a more powerful—and likely better-binned—AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D, and it managed to achieve 7200 MHz with timings of 24-37-32-28 and 100% completion of the memory test, suggesting decent stability, even with the increased UCLK frequency. The overclocking team also managed to stabilize an overclock with 8900 MT/s and 34-47-47-47 timings. It should be noted that Colorful hasn't actually provided any benchmark testing results to show any performance improvements over the stock 6400 MT/s for this particular RAM kit, nor has it provided any of the voltages or temperature consequences that came about as a result of these overclocks, so it's unclear what the long-term viability or implications of these overclocks would be.
Sources: Colorful, Wccftech
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7 Comments on Colorful Reveals DDR5-6400 RAM Overclocked to 9600 MT/s

#1
_roman_
I can barely read any numbers on the screenshots.
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#2
freeagent
I would guess VDD is at least 1.65v.
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#3
A Computer Guy
_roman_I can barely read any numbers on the screenshots.
Oof, if I could only see the numbers I might have some clues to get my 96GB ECC 6400MT/s kit to work at 6000MT/s.
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#4
Cowboystrekk
Getting 7200 1:1 and 9200 2:1 is far beyond anything I've seen 😳 must be a new kit easier for imc to drive.
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Nathaaab
Am I missing something or what are all these timings at 1 on the 7200 C24 screenshot?
Also, 7200 1:1 o_O
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overclockedamd
7200 MHz with timings of 24-37-32-28 and 100% completion of the memory test, and 1:1
Say WHAT?
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#7
_roman_
As long i can not read all those number properly it's advertisement. I did not write hoax which I wanted to.
It's more negative than positive advertisement when i see claims without proof. It's not that hard to post screenshot 1 pixel vs 1 pixel without compression in the usual picture format like png, jpg, whatever anyone can read without issues.
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