Test Setup
As usual we will be testing HyperX Predator 2400 memory with MaxxMem, AIDA64 and SuperPi 32M as these tests show memory related performance gain that is hard to see in many other benchmarks.
MaxxMem v1.99
Even though the Command Rate in the XMP profiles is 2N, Kingston memory performs very well. The more relaxed timings in XMP #1 profile are almost as fast as G.Skill’s CL10 settings, a really good result. As we see in the table, the latency is even better.
AIDA64 2.85 Memory and Cache benchmark
AIDA64 is one of the most popular memory transfer benchmarks so we’re using it to measure memory speed.
As we see above the Kingston Predator looks good in this test. The 2133 profile is a bit slow but 2400 has really good results, about as high as G.Skill memory at tighter timings.
SuperPi 32M
At the end is one of the overclocker’s favorite benchmarks – Super Pi.
Here we see similar results to the previous tests, our review sample is nearly as fast as the G.Skill memory, which has much tighter main timings.
Kingston engineers must have spent some time on optimizing the sub-timings on this memory to achieve such good results.
This memory is really fast even though main timings are more relaxed than those that the competition uses. It just proves that there is more to memory timings than the main five.
Overclocking
To be honest I was expecting good overclocking from Kingston Predator but I just couldn’t set much higher clocks than declared by producer. I wasn’t able to boot this memory at 1300MHz ( DDR3-2600 ) no matter what voltage or timings I tried.
On the other hand I was able to tighten timings much more at 1200MHz ( DDR3-2400 ) which improved the results some more.
Below are benchmark results after tightening timings. As we see below, this especially helped the read transfers, they are passing 26.5GB/s in MaxxMem.
