Performance
Performance has been tested on the Intel mobile platform, including the i9-13900HX, 24-core processor, Minisfrum AR900i motherboard, Nvidia RTX4070 FE 12GB graphics card, Patriot VP4300 Lite 2TB NVMe SSD, and Corsair SF600, 600W 80+ Platinum PSU.
All results were performed on the V-Color 32GB DDR5-5600 memory kit, except for a JEDEC DDR5-4800 profile. Our overclocking limit was DDR5-6600 at lowered primary timings to CL32-38-38 and 1.37V VDD/VDDQ. Overclocking will be described on the next page of this review. Now, let’s look at our results in various benchmarks and games.
Let’s begin the tests.
Our AIDA64 results are slightly better than expected. Typically, we see about 1-2GB lower results on SPD/JEDEC 5600 modules.
Latency doesn’t look much better, as most 5600MT/s kits show around 90-94ns in the AIDA64 benchmark. We must remember that laptop memory kits usually have worse results than desktop series. Considering this fact, it’s quite surprising we could go down to 62.1ns on an overclocked V-Color memory.
The difference in synthetic bandwidth and latency tests does not always tell the whole story, so let’s examine other tests.
PCMark 10 Applications benchmark shows differences in popular Microsoft Office. Usually, Excel shows the most significant performance gains and is also the most demanding if we use various macros and add-ons. This time, the results in PowerPoint are also significantly better than those on a standard DDR5-4800.
3DMark tests show little difference in all settings. This is notable if we participate in competitive overclocking; otherwise, it looks close to an error margin.
Rendering benchmarks like Cinebench 2024 also show some gains. We can see it mainly in the multi-core test, but the single core also reacts well to RAM performance on our test platform.
Final Fantasy XV and Superposition results are barely different. We can tell that RAM helps in the FF XV benchmark, but the difference between the slowest and fastest settings is not high, and we could even say it’s close to the error margin.
Modern games at the most popular 1080p and 1440p display resolutions react pretty well to RAM changes. We can see anything between 2 and 10 FPS between various RAM settings. Most users won’t be able to overclock SODIMM memory as laptops generally don’t support overclocking (with some exceptions). It’s still interesting to see the expected performance gains. Soon, we will see the next generation of processors and better memory controllers, and we can already tell that faster RAM will definitely help in games. Maybe not as much as faster graphics cards, but if the price is reasonable, it’s worth investing in fast RAM.
The V-Color SODIMM memory passed all our tests without problems, and you can already see our overclocking results, suggesting that the memory kit is high quality. On the next page, I will tell you some more about overclocking.
