Performance
Test platform is based on Intel Skylake i5 6600K processor and ASUS Maximus VIII Hero motherboard. Processor and cache frequency have been raised to 4.2GHz ( it’s overclocking series afterall ) because it easier shows us differences in memory performance. This clock is easy to achieve on unlocked i5 or i7 processors and shouldn’t cause any issues if anyone wishes to compare performance at home.
AIDA64 Memory and Cache Benchmark
First test on the list is as usual AIDA64 as it offers one of the best available memory benchmarks and results are easy to compare.
G.Skill Ripjaws V DDR4-3000 memory kit is performing quite good. Results are not much lower than on Ripjaws V DDR4-3200 memory kit but are much higher than any other memory at lower frequency.
Looking at differences in AIDA64 I think that DDR4-3000 can be optimal for all gamers and more demanding users who don’t want to spend too much money on RAM. We will find out in next tests if I’m right.
MaxxMem Preview v1.99
MaxxMem Preview is memory benchmark which is performing single threaded tests. On new platforms it’s not so important but we can still take a look how performance looks like when we are using only one thread.
There is not so big difference between memory kits than in AIDA64 but the same as in previous benchmark also here Ripjaws V DDR4-3000 is not much slower than DDR4-3200 memory kit while is faster than all other kits. It’s hard to base on this benchmark as deciding factor which memory is actually the best so maybe let’s move to the next test.
HyperPi 32M
HyperPi can be called overclocker’s benchmark. It doesn’t take much time to perform while it still gives us good data about memory performance. It’s also good test if we wish to test basic stability while overclocking memory.
Going back to the test results, we can see similar scenario as we could see in other tests. Ripjaws V DDR4-3000 memory performs well and even though it’s higher capacity memory, it can be used by more demanding overclockers.
Cinebench R11.5 and R15
Cinebench so rendering benchmarks. Even though it’s hard to say that memory performance makes really big difference for end user, we can clearly see that higher frequency memory is helping in rendering. Since DDR4 price isn’t really high nowadays then I think it’s worth to buy at least DDR4-3000 memory kit.
PCMark 8
PCMark 8 is performing various tests based on popular software like less demanding games, office applications and some more. The same as in Cinebench, we can’t see really big difference in test results so hard to exactly say which memory is better option but as I already mentioned, if price is not much higher then why not to buy higher frequency memory ? There are still applications which can use faster memory.
General performance of Ripjaws V 2x8GB DDR4-3000 memory kit is really good. It’s probably the best option for gamers or more demanding users in still reasonable price.
During all tests we had no problems with stability or performance. Everything was working great.
