Performance
Performance has been tested on the Intel platform, including the i7-13700K processor, ASUS Z790 APEX motherboard, Colorful RTX4080 Advanced OC 16GB graphics card, Kingston Renegade 2TB NVMe SSD, and Corsair 1200W 80+ Platinum PSU.
All results were performed on the Predator Hermes RGB 32GB DDR5-6800 memory kit. Our overclocking limit was 8400MT/s, but overclocking is not guaranteed. At this clock, the memory could run at respectable timings of CL38-48-48 at the 1.55V VDD/VDDQ. Since the voltage can be too high for daily usage, I recommend staying at 7600 or 8000MT/s, which offers similar performance and runs at much lower voltages.
Let’s begin the tests.
The results at overclocked settings show significantly higher bandwidth in the AIDA64 benchmark. It doesn’t change that the XMP results are also pretty high.
The latency test usually shows more significant differences between the XMP and overclocked settings. In this case, we can see about 3ns difference between all the settings. The XMP profile is only slightly worse than overclocked settings. Our overclocking settings are not fully optimized, so we can count on better results if we spend additional time.
AIDA64 tests are fully synthetic and usually do not present real-world performance. The next tests should give a better view of the daily performance.
PCMark 10 Applications benchmark usually shows more performance gain at higher frequency or lower latency memory. Excel especially reacts well to memory changes. In this case, however, it’s barely visible. It suggests that all settings have a similar daily performance in the office applications.
One more time, 3DMark benchmarks barely show any differences in all our settings.
The same rendering benchmarks, like Cinebench R23, do not show significant performance gain.
The same Final Fantasy XV and Superposition benchmarks have all results close to the error margin.
Modern games react better to the RAM performance, especially at lower display resolutions like 1080p. Tomb Raider shows the most significant gains, up to around 30FPS more at the highest overclocking profile. At 1440p, it’s not so visible.
Predator Hermes RGB 32GB DDR5-6800 memory kit performs well in all our tests. Its performance is high enough to compete with higher-frequency memory, and additionally, it offers us high overclocking potential, so the performance can be even higher. On the next page, I will tell you some more about the overclocking of the Predator Hermes memory kit.
