It’s over 7000! – Teamgroup DELTA RGB DDR5-6400 CL40 2 x 16GB kit Review with Overclocking and Teardown

1 - Specifications and Unboxing 2 - RGB Lighting and SPD Information 3 - Dimensions and Heatsink Test 4 - Teardown and PCB Analysis 5 - Overclocking and Test Systems 6 - Synthetics – LinpackXtreme, SPI 32M, AIDA64, GB3 7 - Gaming – Cyberpunk 2077, SoTR, CSGO 8 - Summary and Conclusion

Gaming Benchmarks

As always, an RTX 3090 Founders Edition from Nvidia is used for the gaming tests, with maximized temperature and power consumption limits, for the lowest possible GPU bottleneck. The performance data is recorded with Nvidia Frameview 1.2, based on the open-source software Presentmon. Like last time, there are again three relatively different game titles, Counter Strike: Global Offensive (CSGO) as an example of a more latency-sensitive title, Cyberpunk 2077 and Shadow of the Tomb Raider with a balanced preference and a slight preference for bandwidth, respectively. Cyberpunk has recently received a larger patch, but since the performance has decreased overall and also for better comparability, we are still testing with version 1.31.

Counter Strike Global Offensive - FPS - 1440p

Cyberpunk 2077 (1_31) - Kabuki Market - FPS - 1440p

Shadow of the Tomb Raider - FPS - 1440p

In gaming at 1440p, even an RTX 3090 is pretty much always the bottleneck in the render pipeline. Accordingly, the gains in RAM are at best measurable here, but probably never noticeable. While the Teamgroup DELTA kit with XMP profile is somewhere in the midfield, the manually optimized configurations usually make it to the front, even if only by a few frames. The exception is Shadow of the Tomb Raider where effectively all DDR5 kits are within the measurement tolerance.

Counter Strike Global Offensive - FrameTimeVariance - 1440p

Cyberpunk 2077 (1_31) - Kabuki Market - FrameTimeVariance - 1440p

Shadow of the Tomb Raider - FrameTimeVariance - 1440p

The test field is also very mixed in terms of frame time variances, with the exception of CSGO where the faster DDR5 configurations tend to have a slight advantage.

Counter Strike Global Offensive - FPS - 1080p

Cyberpunk 2077 (1_31) - Kabuki Market - FPS - 1080p

Shadow of the Tomb Raider - FPS - 1080p

In 1080p, greater influences of CPU and RAM are known to show up, although the differences only amount to single-digit percentage points in extreme cases here as well. The manually optimized DDR5 configurations are always right in front here, followed by the DELTA modules in XMP and the Corsair Dominator modules in XMP with slightly lower latency. In CSGO, the DDR4 configuration can be added in front as usual, but DDR5 is already noticeably faster with manual tuning.

Counter Strike Global Offensive - FrameTimeVariance - 1080p

Cyberpunk 2077 (1_31) - Kabuki Market - FrameTimeVariance - 1080p

Shadow of the Tomb Raider - FrameTimeVariance - 1080p

The Teamgroup DELTA modules are always at the top of the list in terms of frame time variance, although most configurations with XMP can still keep up to some extent. While Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Cyberpunk 2077 are effectively just a reflection of the average FPS, CSGO does show significant differences in frame times over 4 ms. In competitive gaming, where it is not uncommon to use even lower resolutions, fast, tuned RAM like the Teamgroup DELTA DDR5 modules provides the final advantage in competition.