Performance
Performance has been tested on the AMD platform, which contains the Ryzen 9 7950X, Gigabyte X870E Pro ICE motherboard, Gigabyte RTX5070Ti AERO OC graphics card, and FSP 1350W 80+ Platinum PSU.
All tests were performed on the XPOWER Storm 64GB DDR5-6000 memory kit. The 64GB memory kit could overclock up to 7200MT/s+, but because of possible IMC ratio and loose timings, the best performance could be achieved at 6400MT/s and tighter timings. This is what we used in the comparison, and we believe it will be the most popular overclocking option for gaming. If your motherboard and CPU’s memory controller can handle it, you can expect it from the memory kit. Most new processors and motherboards shouldn’t have a problem with that.
Let’s begin the tests.
The AIDA64 memory benchmark scales well with the memory frequency. With each step, we gain a couple more GB/s. The results are pretty good for the EXPO profile.
Latency also looks good. If we tuned timings more in the overclocking profile, we could reduce it by the next 8ns. The difference is huge, even if we compare the EXPO with JEDEC profiles.
The performance 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. This time, we see a significant difference between JEDEC profiles and the EXPO in the XPOWER Storm. The overclocked setting is barely faster than the EXPO profile.
3DMark tests show barely any difference at overclocked settings, but if we take a closer look at scores, it’s clear that higher-frequency memory is faster. This matters mainly in competitive benchmarking. The XPOWER Storm is about as fast in UL benchmarks at all settings.
The new Cinebench reacts slightly better to RAM performance in rendering. It’s insignificant, but we can tell which setting is the fastest, especially through this long benchmark. The result at DDR5-6000 EXPO is already pretty good. The lower XMP profile is significantly slower.
Blender results are also excellent.
Our results in modern 3D games show that most games won’t give us higher FPS at more than 6000MT/s and tight timings. Only a few titles, like Cyberpunk 2077, scale higher, and results at 6400MT/s are a couple of FPS better. Below are some examples, but most new games won’t show a significant difference at 1440p and higher display resolutions.
On the next page, I will tell you more about the overclocking of the XPOWER Storm memory.
