Review: GSkill Ripjaws 4 16GB DDR4-2400 (F4-2400C15Q-16GRK)

by Tarinder Sandhu on 26 December 2014, 07:30

Tags: G.SKILL, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC)

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System tests

There's little benefit in investing in super-high-speed DDR4 even when the octo-core CPU is running at 4.0GHz on all cores. The three quad-channel packs benchmark eerily close to each other; enough for the results to be within the standard deviation of multiple runs.

Why is this, you may ask? The super-efficient DDR4 memory controller on the Core i7-5960X CPU is one reason. A surfeit of bandwidth produced by a quad-channel architecture is another, and, finally, the massive amounts of on-chip cache is a third explanation why frequencies and latencies of external memory don't show a manifest difference in performance.