Crucial Ballistix Elite 32GB (4x8GB) Quad Channel DDR4 Memory Kit Review

Performance Benchmarks

Cinebench

While Cinebench focuses more on the CPU performance, memory tweaks do play a small role in the increase and decrease of performance. There is an extremely small increase in performance, but this is well within the CPU performance margin of error.

AIDA64

Aida64 is on of the more thorough and simpler to read tests that we perform. The overclock gave some better figures here, although it still lags slightly behind the Kingston 2666MHz 32GB set. Even at stock speeds, the 32GB set excels compared to the 16GB Elite set.

A disappointing result here with the latency being the same as a stock 2133MHz kit.

SiSoft Sandra

SiSoft Sandra is slightly harder to read, but the performance figures show a truer representation of the overall performance of the RAM itself. Between stock and overclocked, there is a gain of around 1.5GB/s; this overclock was enough for the Elite 32GB kit to take the lead.

WPrime

WPrime is fairly sensitive to memory frequency changes, however, due to the high performance of the CPU; tangible differences are hard to see. In this test, similar to Cinebench, the performance was impacted negatively. However, this is well within the margin of error for the CPU score.

3DMark Fire Strike

There is very little impact to gaming performance when selecting your memory, although a difference could be witnessed between a 2133MHz and 3300+MHz kit. The Physics test within 3DMark Firestrike is the most sensitive to memory changes; as displayed below, the 84MHz increase gave a nice 200 point performance boost.