Performance
In the performance stage has been used AMD Threadripper platform which includes the Ryzen 1920X, ASRock X399M Taichi, Crucial BX300 480GB SATA SSD, EVGA GTX1080Ti FE and Enermax Platimax 750W PSU. Used OS was Windows 10 Pro with the latest updates as for 20th of May.
I’ve decided to compare five settings and all of them were stable on the Ballistix Tactical Tracer RGB. Most of these settings should be possible to set on other popular memory and some are actually close to XMP profiles of some popular memory kits.
All settings in the comparison were achieved using 1.20V or 1.35V and auto sub-timings.
Memory speed counts a lot on the AMD Ryzen as everything is affected by memory performance which is also data fabric clock. Simply memory performance affects all internal transfers.
Above you can see AIDA64 Memory and Cache benchmark which is showing memory bandwidth. AMD Threadripper reacts really good to high memory frequency so it’s not a surprise that our memory results are scaling well up to DDR4-3600.
A similar situation is in 7-Zip compression and decompression benchmark. Higher memory frequency gives us better results.
I was a bit surprised that results in PCMark 10 are not so much different at XMP profile and overclocked settings. This benchmark uses popular applications to perform tests but I guess that not all tests are using multithreading where memory performance counts more.
The more significant difference can be seen in the VRMark. Especially the least demanding Orange Room shows about 1000 marks difference what is a huge improvement considering we are only changing memory settings.
Performance of the Ballistix Tactical Tracer RGB is high but as we can see, could be even better. I guess that Ballistix leaves additional improvements to users while we are receiving fully stable and well-performing memory kit which works without issues regardless of platform.
Even though results in the comparison are based on overclocked settings then there is still some more to show. Let’s move to the next page to see what more we can achieve on the Ballistix Tactical Tracer RGB.
