Performance
Performance has been tested on the latest Intel Rocker Lake-S platform, including the i7-11700K processor and ASRock Z590 Extreme motherboard. Additional overclocking tests were performed on MSI MEG Z590I Unify, which supports higher memory frequency.
Other components are the ASRock RX6800XT Phantom Gaming graphics card, Silicon Power US70 1TB NVMe SSD, AbkonCore 850W Gold 80+ PSU, and Enermax LIQMAX III 360 CPU cooler.
All results were performed on the HyperX Predator RGB 16GB DDR4-4600 memory kit, so this is what you can expect, but of course, overclocking is never guaranteed as it depends on many factors. All these results are based on settings that passed longer stability tests and mixed performance tests.
Let’s begin the tests.
Here we have one of the most interesting AIDA64 in months. Depends on various settings, we can see up to 20GB/s difference in memory bandwidth. The latest Intel processors finally have good enough memory controllers, so purchasing higher frequency RAM is starting to be worth it.
Both XMP profiles are performing well, but we can see how much better are results on XMP #1. We can also see how high is the overclocking headroom on the HyperX Predator.
Since memory latency is affected by both memory timings and frequency, even if we relax timings, the high frequency covers losses. The lower latency on the DDR4-3600 setting is mainly caused by Gear 1 mode, which means that the memory controller runs at a synchronized ratio. The Gear 1, in most cases, works only up to DDR4-3600. To match or exceed this latency at a Gear 2 mode, we have to set a significantly higher memory clock or a balanced higher frequency and low timings.
As usual, rendering benchmarks like the Cinebench series are barely reacting to memory performance. There is a difference in our results that suggests higher performance at a higher memory clock. It’s nothing really significant but still counts.
The most important for most users is a performance in daily usage, which is simulating PCMark 10. This benchmark shows the best results at DDR4-4600 XMP and DDR4-5200 settings.
UL benchmarks like 3DMark Time Spy and Fire Strike series react to memory settings almost the same as PCMark 10. Even though differences are not big, the highest memory frequency shows the best scores.
In the VRMark Orange Room, we can see up to 9FPS between various settings. The XMP #1 is better than other settings in all three tests, beating even the DDR4-5200.
All Final Fantasy XV and Superposition results are surprisingly close at all settings. There was a significant difference on the AMD platform, depending on the memory controller ratio and memory timings. Here all results are so close that it is hard to say which setting is the best clearly.
At a lower display resolution of 1080p, which is still the most popular, new games are already showing up to 11FPS difference. In games at lower display resolution, DDR4-3600 seems to be slightly better than other settings. The XMP #1 is not far behind.
One more HyperX review, and once more, I’m satisfied with the results at XMP settings. More on the XMP #1, but this is the main profile which supposed to be used on the Predator DDR4-4600 RAM. If you don’t have a good enough motherboard to handle DDR4-4600, then I recommend lower frequency HyperX kits optimized to run at lower timings, so they may offer not much worse performance but will probably be cheaper.
