Performance testing

Benchmarking memory is about as useful as any other purely academic pursuit, but what kind of “review” would that be if I just claimed it worked as advertised and showed some pictures of the product? Therefore, test results must be provided.

It may not surprise the astute reader to discover that we will be using an Intel platform to test this kit. Why; Well, running above 6000 MT/s on AMD, regardless of voltage, offers little to no advantage, depending on the application. At Intel, on the other hand, the sky’s the limit.

The specifications of the test system are shown in the graphs, and here I will clarify that the Intel Core i7-14700K was manually limited to the officially specified limits of 253W Turbo and ICCMax 307A. No 4095W motherboard defaults here. (Read more about 14th generation power to Gavin’s excellent review of the AT.) Oh, and I forgot to indicate the GPU used, which was an NVIDIA GeForce RT4090 FE card.

First, a synthetic memory benchmark to show potential memory scaling: