HP V10 RGB 16GB DDR4-3600 CL14 Memory Kit Review

Performance

Performance has been tested on the Intel Rocket Lake-S platform, which contains the Core i7-11700K processor, MSI Z590I Unify motherboard, Powercolor RX6800 XT graphics card, Crucial P5 Plus 1TB NVMe SSD, and Corsair 600W 80+ Platinum PSU.

All results have been made using the HP V10 RGB 16GB DDR4-3600 memory kit. All overclocking results were stable and passed multiple tests, as listed in the comparison.

As usual, we will start with the AIDA64 Memory and Cache benchmark, which is probably the best application to check memory bandwidth and latency.

AIDA64 bandwidth results are pretty high for DDR4. The overclocking results are even close to lower DDR5 frequencies. The HP V10 RGB gives us a wide range of possible settings, so we can set anything up to at least DDR4-4800. It all depends on the used voltage and timings.

Because this is a Z590 motherboard, then we are limited with Gear 1 mode up to about 3733. However, on Intel platforms, it doesn’t matter as much as on AMD, so the latency at Gear 2 and higher frequencies is still very low. Even the XMP profile performs excellent, not to mention the highest overclocking results.

In PCMark 10, the best results are at DDR4-4800, but all other settings are not far behind.

In Cinebench R23, the best results are at the tuned DDR4-3600, which could work at CL13-13-13. Cinebench R23 likes low latency, and also Gear 1 mode is faster in CPU rendering.

3DMark series benchmarks are showing similar results in all settings. Most of these results look like an error margin, but we can still tell that the highest overclocking results are slightly faster.

VRMark shows us up to 2FPS performance gain because of overclocking. Since the average FPS is already high, then it doesn’t matter much.

The same barely visible differences are in Final Fantasy XV and Superposition benchmarks. We can’t make much more to gain higher performance on these fast platforms with already fast RAM. On the other hand, users expect to buy the best possible components and play games at optimal settings without wasting time on manual tunning.

In the popular games at the most popular, lower display resolution, we can see up to 5FPS gain at overclocked settings. It’s still not a lot and clearly shows that the XMP profile is already fast. Once again, I don’t think that the improvements are worth wasting time on manual tuning, but of course, some users like to have overclocking headroom and will spend time to get that 1% higher results.

On the next page, I will tell you a couple of words about overclocking the HP V10 RGB DDR4-3600 RAM.