G.Skill Ripjaws 4 DDR4-3000 Memory Review

BENCHMARKS

SUPERPI 32M

SuperPI is a single-threaded benchmark which calculates PI to a certain number of digits in our case 32M digits which for this test is done over 24 iterations. The results shown are the time to do this calculation which the test is based on RAM settings, and CPU overclock although in our case the CPU overclock is the same for all tests.

The results here show the faster the memory is as well as tighter timings have an impact on the time to calculate PI to 32M digits. We can see that running the RAM at 2800MHz with tight timings produced the 2nd fastest run but by milliseconds over 3000MHz CL13.

MEMORY BANDWIDTH & LATENCY

We use AIDA64’s ‘Cache and Memory Benchmark’ for benchmarking bandwidth as well as latency.

With latency the tighter you can get your timings shows an improvement in latency. Latency on this kit is rather good compared to other kits we have tested which are due to the higher stock frequency.

WINRAR

WinRAR is a well-known program used to compress and archive a folder or folders for example. The program comes with a built-in benchmark which we have used here to test our memory in terms of maximum compression speed.

Our tests show that WinRAR results are very similar on all RAM configurations which show us that the benchmark is more CPU bound. The graph may show big differences on these results but looking further into it, the differences are not that great to be noticeable I.E approx 500KB/s differential from worst to best.

CINEBENCH R15

Maxon’s Cinebench is a benchmarking tool based on their Cinema 4D software. It measures CPU performance by rendering a photo realistic 3D scene.

As seen by the results, Cinebench R15 is CPU dependent with memory having little to no impact with the exception of overclocking to 3200MHz which did make a slight impact.