Performance
Performance has been tested on the Intel Comet Lake-S platform, which includes the i5-10500 processor and MSI Z490I Unify motherboard. 3D tests were performed with the help of the GTX1660Ti graphics card, which isn’t the strongest but is a quite popular option for gamers. This is not the strongest platform but seems well balanced and fast enough to handle most new games at 1080p and 1440p and high display details. We are usually presenting results on the top processor series, so here is something for a wider range of users.
The Predator DDR4-4266 memory, even though not the cheapest, is already available at a reasonable price, and it can be considered as a good idea to invest in this faster memory for new AMD and Intel platforms.
Everything is readily available in stores so our readers can compare results on their computers.
All results were performed on the HyperX Predator 16GB DDR4-4266 memory kit, so this is what you can expect, but of course, overclocking is never guaranteed as it depends on many factors.
Let’s begin the tests.
Memory bandwidth in AIDA64 is scaling well with memory frequency, and because this is Intel platform, then it goes up nicely past DDR4-3600. Of course, a higher frequency gives us a higher memory bandwidth.
A lower difference between memory settings can be observed in rendering benchmarks like Cinebench R20. Even though we can see performance gain, then this benchmark is not reacting well to memory speed. It mostly uses CPU power. If it were a production environment with much larger test files, then memory speed would be more significant, but then also memory capacity would be more important.
The most important for most users is a performance in daily usage, which is simulating PCMark 10. This benchmark clearly likes a lower latency, which delivers the DDR4-3600 CL14 setting. Even though this is the lowest frequency in our comparison, then it performs as well as the DDR4-4533 at more relaxed timings.
The XMP settings are providing high performance in this benchmark and are not far behind the overclocked settings.
UL benchmarks from 3DMark Time Spy and Fire Strike series are showing nearly the same performance at all our settings.
VRMark tests are, in this case, better for comparison. We can see up to 4FPS more in the Orange Room, up to 2FPS in the Cyan Room, and up to 3FPS in the Blue Room. I don’t remember when the last time this benchmark was reacting so well to memory settings. At the same time, the XMP #1 is not much worse than the overclocked, DDR4-4533 setting.
Final Fantasy XV and Superposition benchmarks are performing well in all our settings. Interesting is that usually slower XMP#2 performs better than the first XMP profile.
New games at a lower display resolution of 1080p, which is still the most popular, are already showing up to 2FPS difference between settings in the Tomb Raider and up to 5FPS in the Farcry 5. As far as the Tomb Raider results could be in the error margin, then the Farcry 5 results are already a significant improvement.
One more time, we are reviewing HyperX memory, which performs well at XMP settings. We can overclock the memory, but it’s not required to deliver us high performance. I’m sure that all will be satisfied with the Predator DDR4-4266 out of the box, but those who count on some more can always try their luck in overclocking. On the next page, I will tell you some more about the overclocking of the Predator DDR4-4266 memory kit.
