Synthetic Benchmarks
PCMark 10
Starting off the ceremonies, things seem a bit weird with the slower DDR5-4800 timings clocking out a win over both the Viper 6200MHz and the Corsair 5600MHz flavors. When we looked into the subscores for this, the Viper memory pulled out a win on the Productivity score, the slower speed was the winner for the Essentials and Digital Content Creation.
Geekbench 5 (Multicore)
Moving on to Geekbench 5’s multicore test, things start looking a bit more normal with the Viper 6200MHz memory posting a 2% lead over the Corsair 5600MHz memory, then both turned and mopped the floor with the 4800MHz memory.
Geekbench 5 (Single Core)
Moving on to single core performance, the Viper 6200MHz memory held on to its 2% lead over the Corsair 5600MHz, but interestingly enough, the 4800MHz setting was within a rounding error of the Corsair. This may be a scenario where the tighter timings helped to level the playing field.
AIDA64 Memory Read
Moving on to the test where the Viper 6200MHz will flex its muscle, we found it clocking in at 96,971MB/s of bandwidth in Aida 64’s Memory Read benchmark, which was 9.6% faster than the Corsair 5600MHz entrant. Now, if we do the math on the theoretic performance, we should see a 10.7% difference between the two sticks assuming all other things are constant.
The 4800MHz memory landed 29% slower than the 6200MHz memory, which matches its theoretical difference based on published speeds. This is interesting as it may be pointing at the throughput differences of the C36 timings on the Corsair vs the C40 on the other two.
AIDA64 Memory Write
Moving on to AIDA’s Memory Write test, we see the Viper 6200MHz scribble down 86,267MB/s on its exam, which was 8% faster than the Corsair 5600MHz and 25% faster than the 4800MHz speeds.
AIDA64CPU Queen
Moving on to AIDA’s CPU Queen test, we find similar results to PCMark10, where the 4800MHz memory bests the Viper and Corsair sticks. At this point, our best hypothesis may be in some of the detailed sub-timings configured on the 4800MHz profile that are giving it a boost at that speed in what appears to be a potentially latency-based test.
AIDA64 SHA3
On AIDA64’s SHA3 test, we see a virtual dead heat across all three making these the most boring results to look at in the entire review.
CineBench R20 (Multi Core)
With Cinebench R20’s multicore test, the lower latency Corsair 5600MHz memory pulled off a slight edge over the Viper 6200MHz memory, which in turn pulled off a small victory over the 4800MHz spec’ed memory. While one may try to argue that the latency is the victor here, we’d argue that it’s too close to call at a half a percent difference
CineBench R20 (Single Core)
Moving on to the single-core test within Cinebench R20, we find that the field separates some, bringing a 2% difference between the Viper 6200MHz memory at the top and the 4800MHz at the bottom. As the single-core test tends to run much longer than the multicore, this probably allowed the differences to be teased out a bit further than was possible on the last test.
Blender Monster
With Blender’s Monster benchmark, we found the Viper 6200MHz in the lead with the 4800MHz memory nipping on its kneecaps. The Corsair 5600MHz memory was also threatening to bite the kneecaps off the leader given that less than a 1% spread was shown.
Blender Classroom
In Blender Classroom, we see a 1.4% spread between the top performing Corsair 5600MHz and the 4800MHz memory at the bottom.
Blender Junkshop
For our final Blender test of the day, we see the Viper 6200MHz memory take first place by a respectable 4.75% bump over the Corsair 5600MHz memory.
VRay 5
For our last application/synthetic test, we found VRay 5’s crown to be on the Viper 6200MHz’s head by a rounding error of 0.3%. The DDR5 was a king without a crown scoring 1.5% lower than the Viper 6200MHz.