The AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review - In Depth Memory Testing

Intro

Here is another part of my 3950X review. I did some “simple” memory benchmarking. Pay attention to the memory ranks vs populated slots. This is pretty interesting stuff. Sorry for not writing a better intro its just that I’ve been sitting on this article for a bit and I’ve forgotten most of what I originally wanted to say. I’m just going to publish this and hopefully its good. I got the ACTUAL review to get to, ya know, the one with comparisons to other CPUs instead of in depth curisoity dives.

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Specifications

2x AMD Ryzen 9 3950X
MSI X570 Meg Unify
Asus X570 Crosshair VIII Impact
Corsair H115i PRO
4x Crucial Ballistix Elite DDR4-4000 BLE2K8G4D40BEEAK (Micron E-Die) (Single Rank)
2x G.Skill TridentZ RGB DDR4-3466 F4-3466C16D-16GTZR (Samsung B-Die) (Single Rank) (Provided by Intel for the 9900K review)
2x G.Skill TridentZ RGB DDR4-3466 F4-3466C16D-16GTZR (Hynix C-Die) (Single Rank)
4x Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-2800 CMK32GX4M4A2666C15 (Micron B-Die) (Dual Rank)
EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti XC BLACK EDITION GAMING 11G-P4-2282-KR
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB SSD
PNY CS1311 960GB SSD
Samsung 970 Evo Plus 250GB NVMe (Provided by Intel for the 9900K review)
Cooler Master MasterBox NR600
SeaSonic FOCUS Plus Gold 850W 80+ Gold (Provided by Intel for the 9900K review)

Test Results

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In Depth Memory Benchmarking

In Depth Memory Benchmarking Results

MSI X570 Unify

Since the order is always the same, I will be referring to each of these setups in alphabetical order.

A
- 4x G.Skill TridentZ RGB 8GB DDR4 single rank at 3600 with 16-18-18-38-1 timings
B
- 4x Crucial Ballistix Elite 8GB DDR4 single rank at 3600 with 16-18-18-38-1 timings
C
- 4x Crucial Ballistix Elite 8GB DDR4 single rank at 4000 with 18-19-19-39-1 timings
D
- 2x Crucial Ballistix Elite 8GB DDR4 single rank at 4000 with 18-19-19-39-1 timings
E
- 2x Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB DDR4 dual rank at 2800 with 15-17-17-37-1 timings
F
- 2x Crucial Ballistix Elite 8GB DDR4 single rank at 3600 with 16-18-18-38-1 timings
G
- 4x G.Skill TridentZ RGB 8GB DDR4 single rank at 2800 with 15-17-17-37-1 timings
H
- 4x Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB DDR4 dual rank at 2800 with 15-17-17-37-1 timings
I
- 2x G.Skill TridentZ RGB 8GB DDR4 single rank at 3600 with 16-18-18-38-1 timings
J
- 2x G.Skill TridentZ RGB 8GB DDR4 single rank at 2800 with 15-17-17-37-1 timings

AIDA64 Memory Bandwidth Tests

AIDA64 Memory Latency Test

AIDA64 CPU Tests

Cinebench R15 & R20

Asus Realbench

Passmark Performancetest CPU Tests

Passmark Performancetest Memory Tests

Passmark Performancetest Memory Latency

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3DMark Firestrike Normal

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3DMark Firestrike Extreme

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3DMark Firestrike Ultra

3DMark Timespy Normal

3DMark Timespy Extreme

Overall Score

Asus X570 ROG Impact

Since the order is always the same, I will be referring to each of these setups in alphabetical order.

A
- 2x Crucial Ballistix Elite 8GB DDR4 single rank at 3600 with 16-18-18-38-1 timings
B
- 2x G.Skill TridentZ RGB 8GB DDR4 single rank at 3600 with 16-18-18-38-1 timings
C
- 2x Crucial Ballistix Elite 8GB DDR4 single rank at 4000 with 18-19-19-39-1 timings
D
- 2x Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB DDR4 dual rank at 2800 with 15-17-17-37-1 timings
E
- 2x G.Skill TridentZ RGB 8GB DDR4 single rank at 2800 with 15-17-17-37-1 timings