Performance
Performance has been tested on the Intel platform, including the Core Ultra 7 265K processor, ASRock Z890 Taichi OCF motherboard, Colorful RTX4080 Advanced OC 16GB graphics card, Predator GM7000 2TB NVMe SSD, and FSP 1350W 80+ Platinum PSU.
All results were performed on the Predator HERA RGB 32GB DDR5-8000 memory kit. Our overclocking limit was 8600MT/s, but overclocking is not guaranteed. At this clock, the memory could run at respectable timings of CL40-52-52 and the 1.525V VDD/VDDQ. Since the voltage can be too high for daily usage, I recommend staying at the XMP of 8000MT/s, which offers not much worse performance but runs at lower voltages.
Let’s begin the tests.
The results at overclocked settings show significantly higher bandwidth in the AIDA64 benchmark. However, the XMP results are also pretty high. The Predator HERA is one of the few memory kits with XMP or EXPO profiles at 8000MT/s and CL36 so that we can expect the highest bandwidth.
The latency test shows the same results at XMP and the highest overclocking settings. This is mainly because the higher we go, the more relaxed the timings have to be. Considering the test platform, our results are great.
PCMark 10 Applications benchmark usually shows more performance gain at higher frequency or lower latency memory. On Intel Arrow Lake, it’s not so visible. The difference is significant in the Word test, while in comparison, AMD or earlier Intel chipsets show the most crucial performance gains in the Excel test.
3DMark benchmarks barely show any differences in all our settings. We can still say that the 8000MT/s or higher is optimal for the Intel Arrow Lake.
Rendering benchmarks, like Cinebench 2024, do not show significant performance gain, but again, the XMP profile seems optimal.
The same Final Fantasy XV and Superposition benchmarks have all results close to the error margin.
Modern games react better to RAM performance, especially at lower display resolutions like 1080p. Games like Cyberpunk 2077 scale well even at 1440p and higher display details. Other games show some gains, too, but they are not so significant.
The Predator HERA memory kit delivers the top performance we can expect at 8000MT/s. It’s also optimal for gaming, as further overclocking does not show as significant gains as going from 6400MT/s all the way to 8000MT/s. Even though Arrow Lake supports much higher frequency CUDIMM, the price-to-performance ratio looks much better at 8000MT/s UDIMM.
