Gaming Performance
We are testing only at 1080p to isolate performance. We are using an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition video card with driver version 595.97. Importantly, we are using ALL manual run-throughs for every game here, except for DOOM: The Dark Ages; we are using the “Reckoning” benchmark. We are using Frameview to caputure 1% Lows in these games. In all of our graphs to follow, the bars are arranged from the fastest MT/s speed down, so 8800MT/s is on top, with 6400MT/s on the bottom, and this arrangement is locked in independent of the performance shown; they are not arranged by result, but rather the DDR5 memory speed.
Battlefield 6
In Battlefield 6, there is a clear performance advantage in gaming as the XMP Profile and performance is utilized over the default 6400MT/s configuration. Enabling XMP Profile 2, which is also at 6400MT/s but with tighter timings, improves AVG FPS by 3% and 1% Lows drastically increase by 8%. Further, setting the intended XMP Profile 1 at 8400MT/s improves performance by another 1%, or 4% over the default. However, the real improvement for gaming is the 1% Low increase, which is 3% faster than XMP Profile 2 or 11% faster than defaults!
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 does not benefit as much from the improved memory performance. This shows that the advantage is game-dependent; it will just depend on what the game demands. For this particular game, the differences are only at max 1% different in AVG FPS and 3% in 1% Lows.
Crimson Desert
Now Crimson Desert is the opposite of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and more like Battlefield 6 in that it is greatly affected by the memory performance. We are using patch version 1.07.00 for this testing today. In this game, simply using the tighter timings of XMP Profile 2 improves AVG FPS by 4%, and the 1% Lows improve by 5%. Moving up to XMP Profile 1 at 8400MT/s further improves AVG FPS by 1%, or 6% over the default setting. The 1% Lows don’t improve as much here, and stay inline with the XMP Profile 2 setting.
Doom: The Dark Ages
Doom: The Dark Ages is another game that we have found is greatly affected by memory performance. Moving up to XMP Profile 2 over the default improves AVG FPS by 4%, and 1% Lows increase by 4%. Moving up to XMP Profile 1 at 8400MT/s improves performance by another 4%, or 9% over the default, and 1% Lows are 5% faster than the default.