Affordable DDR5 lottery with potential peak performance – Patriot Signature Line DDR5-4800 modules in overclocking test | Review

1 - Specifications and PCB analysis 2 - SPD information and test system 3 - Overclocking for Benchmarking and Daily 4 - Synthetics – LinpackXtreme, SPI 32M, AIDA64, GB3 5 - Gaming – SoTR, CSGO, Cyberpunk 2077 in FHD und QHD 6 - Summary and conclusion

Summary and conclusion

The Patriot Signature DDR5 modules without XMP profile and heatsink might look like hardware you would expect in an office PC or file server at first glance. Of course, the modules would also do their job there, but the PSD516G480081 is more of an insider tip for budget-oriented gamers and overclockers, as long as it has to be DDR5.

I paid 136 Euros for one module each in normal, German online retail. With 272 Euros in total for RAM, this is still not cheap, but it definitely does not have to hide from the competition for 32 GB capacity, even if only JEDEC clock and timings are guaranteed. But if you are lucky and get Hynix ICs, the overclocking potential with the corresponding performance reserves comes on top and the resulting price-performance is almost unbeatable.

With a bit of manual tuning, the Patriot Signature DDR5 modules effectively manage to not only catch up with all freely available XMP kits with clock rates over 6000 Mbps, but even significantly outperform them. Of course, you don’t get the performance à la “plug and play”, but manual tuning is often required for DDR5 anyway in order to run a really stable and performant setup. On the other hand, you can save quite a bit of money with this “kit”.

The only drawbacks worth mentioning are the lottery with the installed memory ICs and the locked Renesas PMIC, which can’t be coaxed to more than 1.435 V on the RAM on all motherboards. If you are willing to take these risks, you will get JEDEC RAM at a reasonable price for relatively little money in the worst case and DDR5 overclocking and performance of the current absolute top class in the best case.