Kingston HyperX Impact 16GB DDR4-2400 SODIMM Memory Review

Performance

Performance has been tested on ASUS ROG GL552VW gaming series laptop. This is the latest laptop based on Intel Skylake i5 6300HQ processor and Nvidia GTX960M graphics card.

Here is also one thing I have to mention. ASUS GL552VW laptop is based on Intel HM170 chipset. It’s a good chipset but Intel locked additional memory ratios. Kingston memory has SPD and XMP profiles prepared for motherboards without memory ratio adjustments but in this case it didn’t help. All tests were performed at DDR4-2133 but also at tighter timings of 13-13-13. This is what you can expect if you won’t have laptop based on Z series chipset.

Memory is of course fully stable and we had no issues with installation, except mentioned chipset issue which doesn’t depend from memory but Intel choice.

Let’s take a look at the results.

First are memory bandwidth benchmarks. AIDA64 is showing about 30GB/s read, write and copy bandwidth what is good result, especially for laptops.

MaxxMEM Preview is also showing memory but in single threading environment where AIDA64 base only on multithreaded tests.

All new operating systems are using load balance so single threading is rarely used. We can still take a look at the performance which is good and not much lower than we can achieve on desktops.

In HyperPi 32M we had no stability issues and overall time is pretty good. It depends mainly from processor speed but also reacts good on memory performance. In this case there are no unexpected delays so all is perfect.

ASUS has it’s own benchmark called RealBench so I thought we can add it to the list. It includes couple of tests that base on encoding, image editing and rendering.

Overall score is great considering that all was made on mobile computer.

Now let’s take a look at Futuremark benchmarks which imitate gaming and popular applications.

3DMark results are clearly better on HyperX Impact memory than regular RAM which was delivered with laptop. You can count on at least 1-3 FPS more while using HyperX Impact. It seems not much but laptops are generally limited so sometimes 2-3 FPS make a big difference.

The same good results we can see in PCMark 8. All presets are quite demanding and take a lot of time but we had no issues to pass them.

At the end two results from Cinebench so one of the most popular rendering benchmarks.

HyperX Impact performance is really good and I don’t think anyone who decide to upgrade memory in new laptop will be disappointed. We have to remember that most laptops are delivered with single 4GB or 8GB memory module. In most cases you can’t find matching memory module or it’s not so easy so easier is to buy dual channel memory kit which for sure will work.

HyperX Impact is designed to work on all motherboards, regardless if it’s supporting XMP profiles or not. Also popular Hynix memory chips are guaranteeing compatibility with every laptop series.