Intel Core i5 12600K and Core i9 12900K With ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Hero Review

AIDA64

Since its early days as Everest, AIDA64 has provided an excellent way to benchmark your system without requiring you to take a week off work whilst the tests run. From the memory bandwidth benchmarks which test your throughput, to the CPU benchmarks which vary in scope to test everything from raw calculation – CPU Queen – through compression algorithms – zLib – and the all important encryption – AES256.

You can see how the DDR5 has much looser timings than DDR4, something that has been the case in every version (DDR4 vs 3, 3 vs 2 etc) which leads to higher latency but the throughput is still a big step forwards.