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Kingston HyperX Predator DDR 3000C15 Quad-Channel Memory Kit Review

Memory by leeghoofd @ 2015-09-07

August 2014, Intel launched its high-end X99 platform, a brand new socket in need of DDR4 modules. DDR4 warrants massive bandwidth plus they can also pack a far higher density per stick. All this goodness is available at your disposal while requiring a mere 1.2-1.35Volts. Only drawback, as with each new technology was at launch the high retail price; half a year later these prices have stabilized and even the high end kits are becoming more and more affordable. Today we have a look at one of the HyperX enthusiast kits: the 3000C15 quad channel kit, the fastest kit in their DDR4 Quad Channel ready X99 lineup. Will the out of the box speeds satisfy the hunger of this enthusiast reviewer or is there more under the hood?

Stock XMP 2D Results

The HyperX Predator kit includes two XMP profiles to ensure maximum compatibility with your motherboard and/or memory controller of your Haswell-E processor. We have not tested the lower 2666MHz XMP as we see no real benefit as most will use these sticks at their rated speeds anyway. Nevertheless we had to adjust the primary memory timings of the Gigabyte Champion Bios to the correct values. Some motherboard vendors have the tendancy to loosen these timings a bit to warrant a higher compatibility. Though it means if you don't check them in Windows via e.g. CPU-Z, you are loosing a bit of perfomance.

First test is to run these HyperX Predator at their Xtreme Memory Profile (XMP) of 3000C15-16-16-39 with a Command Rate of 2T. To provide some other data we also included the following speeds in the charts:

2133C15-15-15-35 2T Command Rate
2400C15-15-15-35 2T Command Rate
2666C15-15-15-35 2T Command Rate
2800C16-18-18-35 2T Command Rate (Corsair Vengeance LPX)
3000C15-16-16-39 2T Commmand Rate ( HyperX Predator 3000C15)
3000C15-15-15-35 2T Command Rate (G.Skill Ripjaws 4 3000C15)

It will be interesting to see how the HyperX kit will perform versus the slower and looser timed Vengeance LPX 2800C16 kit from Corsair and the G.Skill 3000C15Q GRR kit. As mentioned in the Ripjaws 4 article the results differ slightly from those of the Corsair Vengeance LPX article, this because the CPU clock speed is now set at stock and the uncore raised from 3000 to 3500MHz.

First up SuperPI 32M, a single threaded benchmark that loves raw bandwidth: over 8 seconds are gained from the stock Intel rated 2133 frequency versus the XMP settings of the HyperX Predator 3000C15 kit. The Corsair kit seems to be in for another as whooping, logic as it features 200Mhz less in memory speed and has looser overall timings, Plus price wise the Vengeance kit still retails in between the G.Skill 3000C15 and the today's reviewed HyperX Predator 3000C15 quad channel kit.

As you mighty expect the HyperX kit performs perfectly according the clocks and XMP timings. No surprise it can't match the tighter timing set of the G.Skill kit. But keep in mind some tweaking could unleash a lot more power....

The performance difference between the two 3000MHz kits ain't that big, but looking at the retail street prices the G.Skill kit outedges the HyperX kit anyday...

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