Performance
Performance has been tested on the latest AMD platform, which contains a Ryzen 9 7950X processor, ASUS Crosshair X670E Gene motherboard, PowerColor RX6800 XT graphics card, Silicon Power US70 1TB NVMe SSD, and Montech 750W 80+ Gold PSU.
All results have been made using Silicon Power XPOWER Zenith RGB 32GB DDR5-5600 memory kit. All overclocking results were stable and passed multiple tests, as listed in the comparison.
As usual, we will start with the AIDA64 Memory and Cache benchmark, which is probably the best application to check memory bandwidth and latency.
Bandwidth results are lower than on Intel motherboards but are still relatively high. We can clearly see how much difference makes memory frequency. Additional timing adjustment is not helping as much as limits are elsewhere. The difference is also in memory latency, where the XMP setting can make around 75ns, and DDR5-6000 CL26 or DDR5-6400 CL30 reached about 61ns. Results would be slightly better if tests were performed on a freshly reinstalled OS.
Since this review, I’ve changed some tests to show better the difference in memory settings. Here we have PCMark 10 Applications, so popular Microsoft home and office software. There are little changes in Word, PowerPoint, and Edge tests. However, Excel shows us the most significant performance gains.
In rendering benchmarks like Cinebench R23, results at all settings are similar. Again, we can tell that results are getting slightly better with memory frequency, but it’s nothing that would affect our daily work.
In 3DMark series benchmarks, results at all settings are also similar. The Time Spy test reacts the most to memory settings, while others do not so much.
Superposition and Final Fantasy XV benchmarks are one more time showing barely any performance gains from overclocking.
DDR5 seems fast enough, so any further overclocking is not bringing us the expected performance improvements. We can see a 1-4 FPS gain but all that isn’t significant when we already see over 100FPS.
Even though the XMP profile seems quite standard, its performance is high enough to handle everything, not much worse than the overclocked settings that, in theory, are much faster. One more time, we can see that RAM overclocking on new platforms is not helping much. It’s still fun for enthusiasts and those who take part in competitive overclocking, so let’s take a look at our overclocking results on the next page of this review.
