Review: G.Skill Ripjaws V 32GB DDR4-3000 (F4-3000C14D-32GVR)

by Tarinder Sandhu on 7 October 2016, 14:01

Tags: G.SKILL

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Testing methodology

Comparison Memory

 
Crucial Ballistx Sport LT 2,400
G.Skill Ripjaws V 3,000
Model
BLS4K8G4D240FSC
F4-3000C14D-32GVR
Capacity
32GB (4x8GB)
32GB (2x16GB)
Speed
2,400MHz
3,000MHz
Timings
16-16-16-39-2T
14-14-14-14-2T
Voltage
1.20V
1.35V

Test Platform

CPU Intel Core i7-6700K
Motherboard Asus Z170-Pro (1801 BIOS)
Storage Device Samsung 950 Pro 256GB
Graphics Card Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 8GB (373.06)
Power Supply be quiet! Dark Power Pro 11 850W
Operating System Windows 10 64-bit

Benchmarks

HEXUS.PiFast Our number-crunching benchmark stresses a single core by calculating Pi to 10m places
CINEBENCH R15 Using Cinebench's multi-CPU render, this cross-platform benchmark stresses all cores
HandBrake 0.10.5 Free-to-use video encoder that stresses all CPU cores (64-bit)
wPrime 2.1.0 Another number-crunching benchmark that stresses all available CPU cores/threads
AIDA64 v5.75.3981 Memory analysis tool supporting Skylake CPUs
3DMark DX12, Time Spy default test
Dirt Rally DX11, 2,560x1,440, ultra quality
Rise of the Tomb Raider DX12, 2,560x1,440, very high quality

Notes

We're comparing the G.Skill to a Crucial four-module kit of the same capacity albeit with slower speeds. Ironically, even though it has more modules and a slower speed, it is no cheaper, showing just how the frequency/value sweetspot of DDR4 has moved in recent times.

Overclocking

We've chosen three arbitrary speeds and timings in order to evaluate the overclocking potential of the modules. Voltage was increased to 1.45V.

  3,200MHz
(15-15-15-35-2T)
3,333MHz
(15-15-15-15-2T)
3,600MHz
(17-18-18-40-2T)
G.Sill Ripjaws V 3,000 @ 1.45V

The sample kit, sent directly by G.Skill, scales about 10 per cent higher using similar latencies. Its top-end speed is somewhere around 3,500MHz, irrespective of frequencies, so if you want to go faster, other, dearer modules will be the order of the day.