Performance
Performance has been tested on the Minisforum X1 AI mini PC, which contains the Ryzen 7 255 CPU, an ASUS RTX4070 DUAL OC graphics card connected via OCUlink, and an ADATA MARS 980 BLADE M.2 SSD. All tests were performed on Windows 11 Pro with the latest updates as of the review date.
Let’s begin the tests.
The AIDA64 memory benchmark scales well with both the memory frequency and timings. With each step, we gain a couple more GB/s. The results are not bad, especially when we compare them to the desktop DDR5 results and higher series AMD processors.
Since the memory kit is high capacity and the memory profile is JEDEC standard, we can’t expect low latency. Our results are still close to what we see on desktop processors and even higher frequency memory kits like 6400MT/s at JEDEC profiles. Most laptop processors don’t support more than 5600MT/s, and higher frequencies are available for Intel chipsets with the clock driver support.
The difference in synthetic bandwidth and latency tests does not always tell the whole story, so let’s examine other tests.
The PCMark 10 Applications benchmark shows the differences between popular Microsoft Office applications. We can see that the Crucial 128GB kit at 5600MT/s is faster than Kingston at 4800MT/s, while the tighter timings of the Kingston Impact 5600MT/s don’t make any difference.
3DMark tests show barely any difference between all memory settings, but we can see that the 5600MT/s is slightly faster.
The new Cinebench reacts slightly better to RAM performance in rendering. It’s insignificant because of the test length, but we can tell which setting is the fastest. The result at DDR5-5600 is already pretty good for the given settings. We can see that the DDR5-4800 is slower in single and multi-threaded tests than the higher profiles. Crucial 128GB memory performs well in this test.
Our results in modern 3D games show that the Crucial memory at 5600MT/s is only slightly slower than the option at tighter timings. At the same time, the difference compared to a 4800MT/s memory is already significant, especially in F1 2024.
All the tests show us that for the given platform, we won’t find any higher capacity RAM than Crucial, and even if we compare the performance, then we barely lose anything to the fastest options on the market.
We may wonder who would need 128GB of RAM in a laptop or a mini PC. The answer is simple: those who use mobile devices as workstations for virtual machines or AI servers, and also a mixed environment for people who play games and work on the same computers. New processors, like the AMD Ryzen AI series, can utilize up to 64GB as video memory, which lets us use large AI models without the need for an expensive discrete graphics card.
Due to the high capacity and used test platforms, we are unable to overclock the review sample so that it will be skipped in this article. However, we can expect similar results as on a full-size, UDIMM memory kit from Crucial, which shares a significant part of the specifications.
