Performance
Test setup is nothing unusual but there are couple of things worth to mention. Used Intel i7 6700K processor and its cache frequency were set to 4.2GHz. It’s easy to achieve frequency and is better showing memory performance differences. After all it’s platform designed for overclocking so many users will try higher settings than declared by manufacturer.
First test is AIDA64 so one of the best memory benchmarks. We can see that performance of Trident Z DDR4-3200 memory is not much lower than the competitive DDR4-3333 memory kit. At the same time we can see that bandwidth is much higher than next in line DDR4-3000 memory.
Memory controller in Intel Skylake processors performs really good and can use higher frequency memory. I think that gamers and more demanding users will see DDR4-3200 as good spot, well balanced between memory frequency and latency.
Second benchmark is HyperPi 32M, which reacts quite good on memory performance. We can see similar situation as in AIDA64. Trident Z performs really good and we have to remember it’s the only memory kit in this comparison which uses 8GB memory modules. Higher capacity modules usually have more relaxed sub timings what of course affects benchmark scores. In this case we can’t see bigger difference except memory frequency.
Cinebench R15 is a popular rendering benchmark which at least on Intel Skylake is showing differences in memory performance. We couldn’t see it so much on Haswell-E. Even though difference between memory kits isn’t so big then we clearly see that Trident Z memory performs well also in this test. Higher memory capacity will help during longer work while this benchmark can’t use all 16GB.
Now it’s time for Futuremark benchmarks and we will start from the latest 3DMark. It was released in 2013 but after couple of updates it’s still fresh benchmark. I decided to focus on the most popular settings which is showing Fire Strike and the highest available preset for 4K screen resolution which we can see in Fire Strike Ultra.
In both presets Trident Z is performing great as expected. Memory performance in 3DMark is affecting mainly physics tests that’s why total scores are not showing everything. Even though difference is not big then we can see that faster memory can add couple of FPS. Gaming PC should be balanced to perform well and I mean that maximum bandwidth is as important as access time. As I mentioned earlier, DDR4-3200 frequency on Intel Skylake seems to be that sweet spot.
At the end whole PC performance tests so PCMark 8. The same as in 3DMark differences in total scores are not so big but we see that with higher memory performance is also raising test score.
What we can see is that Trident Z DDR4-3200 memory kit is performing great in all tests. There are no performance drops and memory is fully stable during all tasks.
If you still wish to see higher performance then you can try your luck in overclocking. To know what to expect you can take a look at our results on the next page of this review.
