Silicon Power XPOWER Turbine RGB DDR4 Memory Review

System Configuration & Performance Testing

 

Testing Hardware:

• MSI MEG X570 Godlike Gaming
• AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
• Kingston KC2000 1TB
• 32GB (2x 16GB) Silicon Power XPOWER Turbine RGB 3600MHz

Testing Software:

• Microsoft Windows 10 Professional 2004
• Thaiphoon Burner
• CPU-Z
• AIDA64 Extreme Edition
• Passmark Performance Test
• SiSoft Sandra
• 7-Zip

 

CPU-Z is a freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system:

• Processor name and number, codename, process, package, cache levels.
• Mainboard and chipset.
• Memory type, size, timings, and module specifications (SPD).
• Real-time measurement of each core’s internal frequency, memory frequency.

CPUz shows us we have a single XMP profile available, running 3600MHz effective at 18-22-22-42 at 1T command rate.

 

Thaiphoon Burner

Thaiphoon Burner is the number one solution on the software market to work with SPD firmware of DRAM modules of PC. Thaiphoon Burner provides powerful features for reading, modifying, updating, and reprogramming SPD firmware of SPD EEPROM devices. The program fully supports all popular JEDEC standards for Serial Presence Detects and third-party enhancements, such as NVIDIA EPP and Intel XMP. Comparing to other software Thaiphoon Burner creates the most completed reports for any of the following SDRAM types of DIMM modules: PC SDRAM, DDR SDRAM, DDR2 SDRAM, DDR3 SDRAM, DDR2 FB-DIMM, DDR4 SDRAM, LPDDR3, and LPDDR4. This is achieved due to the universal built-in SPD decoding engine.

Thaiphoon shows us Silicon Power is utilizing 16x DRAM modules from Hynix spread across two ranks.

Here is the full readout if you want to look deep into the specs.

 

AIDA64 Engineer Edition

“AIDA64 Engineer has a hardware detection engine unrivaled in its class. It provides detailed information about installed software and offers diagnostic functions and support for overclocking. As it is monitoring sensors in real-time, it can gather accurate voltage, temperature, and fan speed readings, while its diagnostic functions help detect and prevent hardware issues. It also offers a couple of benchmarks for measuring the performance of individual hardware components or the whole system. It is compatible with all 32-bit and 64-bit Windows editions, including Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016.”

Silicon Power’s XPOWER Turbine RGB memory shows bandwidth right in line with most other 3600MHz Kits. Latency, on the other hand, comes in as the second-fastest C18 kit with a system latency of 72.6ns.

Passmark Performance Test – Memory Mark – Threaded

“Fast, easy to use, PC speed testing, and benchmarking. PassMark Performance Test 10 allows you to objectively benchmark a PC using a variety of different speed tests and compare the results to other computers.”

Interestingly, Passmark’s Performance Test 10 memory testing really likes the XPOWER Turbine RGB kit with our highest score. We suspect this is due to the dual-rank layout giving our dual channel system access to up to 4 open pages at one time.

 

SiSoft Sandra

“SiSoftware Sandra provides a robust package of diagnostic tools for testing your system and teasing out its problems–or potential headaches.”

SiSoft also scores the XPOWER Turbine RGB quite well with 43.4GB/s worth of aggregate bandwidth.

 

Blender Benchmark 2.82 – BMW27

A new platform to collect and display the results of hardware and software performance tests. Aimed at an optimal comparison between system hardware and installations using open source software and testing content in the public domain.

For professional workloads, the raw capacity is generally more important than latency, but the CAS-18 shows a slight disadvantage vs. the C16 kits in our test lineup.

 

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In this gaming test, the higher latency doesn’t seem to have any notable impact. 32GB gives you some breathing room to play the latest games with other things going on in the background, plus well all know RGB helps your gaming scores, right?