If you've recently bought yourself a shiny new DDR5 memory kit for your gaming PC, you might be asking yourself: "What is XMP?" This question comes up a lot with DDR5 RAM because although it's quoted to get blistering clock speeds on the packaging and in benchmark tests, the out-of-the-box speed you get when you first install it won't be anywhere near what's advertised.
It doesn't make much sense that the best RAM for gaming should run slower out-of-the-box than some high-ranking DDR4 kits, and this is often the case if you head into your task manager and look at the performance of your memory. So, in order to get the most out of your gaming PC, you'll need to use either XMP profiles (for Intel builds), or AMD EXPO for AMD builds.
