Performance
Performance has been measured in popular benchmarks which are easily available for our readers.
Test platform contains i7 6700K processor and ASRock Z170 OC Formula motherboard. In 3D test has been used ASUS GTX980 Strix 4GB graphics card which will be replaced in future tests with something new.
Let’s begin with AIDA64.
The HyperX Savage performs well in synthetic benchmarks like AIDA64. All bandwidth results are as good or slightly higher than competitive memory kits. We can also see that higher memory frequency affects results on Intel Skylake platform and the same will be on Kaby Lake which was just released couple of days ago.
Tests like HyperPi 32M are also affected by memory performance so are good to compare memory kits. The HyperX Savage also here shows good performance which is about the same as G.Skill Ripjaws V memory at similar settings.
The same story we can see in rendering benchmark which is Cinebench R15. It’s really popular benchmark which results are maybe not affected so much by memory performance but we can clearly see differences between memory kits.
PCMark 8 is a benchmark which is showing us performance of whole computer. Its tests are based on popular applications and less demanding games.
HyperX Savage DDR4-3000 memory is performing about as good as higher frequency memory. Differences are barely visible so it’s easy to say it’s not worth to pay too much for faster memory when we are using it for games or daily home/office work.
About the same as in PCMark, we can see in 3DMark which is one more Futuremark benchmark. More or dess demanding 3D tests are showing barely any differences between memory kits. We can see slightly better results in physics tests but that’s all. Simply if you are planning to build computer for games then paying premium for highest memory frequency is waste of money. Best balance are offering memory kits like presented HyperX Savage DDR4-3000.
