DDR4 Round-Up: Corsair, G.SKILL, Kingston, PNY, Predator Tested

1. Corsair, G.SKILL, Kingston, PNY, Predator DDR4 Tested2. Predator Apollo RGB DDR4 32GB 3600MHz CL143. Corsair Vengeance RGB RT 32GB 3600MHz CL184. G.SKILL Trident Z Royal Elite 32GB 3600MHz CL145. Kingston Fury Renegade RGB 32GB 3600MHz CL166. Kingston Fury Renegade 16GB 5333MHz CL207. PNY XLR8 Gaming EPIC-X RGB 16GB 4000MHz CL188. Testing Methodology9. Compute and Productivity Tests10. Memory Benchmarks11. Gaming Tests & Overclocking12. Overclocking13. Closing Thoughts14. View All Pages

Gaming Tests

3DMark Time Spy does particularly well on the Samsung B-die based G.SKILL and Predator kits with their 3600MHz dual-rank operating configurations and tight – CL14 timings. The looser timings of Corsair’s Samsung kit drop its performance below the tighter Kingston’s Hynix-based Fury Renegade RGB set by a slim margin.

Once again, we see the performance segregation between single-rank and dual-rank sets on the AMD platform. Even with the FCLK ramped up to 1900MHz, the 2x8GB PNY XLR8 Gaming EPIC-X RGB set cannot compete with the 32GB competitors. We see less preferential behaviour from the uber-fast Kingston Fury Renegade kit running at 4600MHz here, albeit by a small margin versus the PNY set that also has a CPU memory controller clock deficit.

The 32GB 3600MHz kits steam to the top of our chart in F1 2020. Predator technically leads Kingston by a tiny margin that doesn’t show up due to rounding. But realistically, these top 4 kits are practically the same in terms of performance.

Kingston’s ultra-fast Fury Renegade kit leads the single-rank pack, but these kits are a few FPS behind in terms of average and 1% low numbers. The 4GHz PNY set is sat at the bottom, once again due to its less preferential CPU memory controller clock speed link.

And as is zero surprise to anybody at this point, the higher-density 3600MHz kits once again take top spot for Watch Dogs Legion.

This time, G.SKILL is measurably quicker thanks to its tight timings and Samsung B-die ICs. The slightly looser Predator kit practically trades blows with the Hynix-based Kingston RGB set – which continues to put in good performance showings throughout our testing.

And the single-rank 16GB sets are once again a segregation behind in terms of FPS. This time, however, the performance numbers were less favourable to the uber-fast Kingston Fury Renegade set that also wields looser timings.

If you can only afford a cheap single-rank kit, you won’t lose too much performance. But beyond a certain frequency, gaming seems to favour dual-rank kits instead on the AMD platform.

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