Successful first attempt? – Acer Predator Talos DDR4-3600 CL18 2x 8 GB Memory Kit | Test with Benchmarks and Teardown

1 - Overview Talos SKUs and Specs 2 - Packaging, Looks and Specs 3 - Teardown and Heatsink-Performance 4 - Test systems and overclocking 5 - AIDA64 Memory and Geekbench 3 6 - Gaming-Performance in Cyberpunk 2077 7 - Final thoughts and conclusion

The gaming benchmark today is again Cyberpunk 2077 with the real-world driving and running parkour around the Kabuki Market with preset “Raytracing Ultra”. Since CD Project Red has already released another patch for the game while I was benchmarking, I can unfortunately only provide performance data for the now outdated version 1.12. Nevertheless, the performance differences between the configurations due to CPU and RAM can be seen very well here. The graphics card used is a GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition, which has been unlocked to maximum temperature and performance limits with MSI Afterburner. The recording of the performance data is done with the tool Nvidia Frameview, based on the OpenSource software PresentMon.

Cyperpunk 2077 (1_12) - Kabuki Market - FPS - 3840 x 2160 (UHD) Raytracing Ultra

Cyperpunk 2077 (1_12) - Kabuki Market - FrameTimeVariance - 3840 x 2160 (UHD) Raytracing Ultra

In UHD, we are largely in the GPU bottleneck, which means RAM and CPU can do little to speed up the render pipeline. That said, the 5950X manages to stand out minimally but noticeably from the 11700K with all configurations. Here we can see that Intel has unfortunately taken a step backwards in gaming performance with Rocket Lake compared to the previous generation, mainly due to the thirstier and lower clocking Cypress Cove cores. In addition, the latency-optimized configurations with manual subtimings can each stand out from the others on the same platform.

Cyperpunk 2077 (1_12) - Kabuki Market - FPS - 2560 x 1440 (QHD) Raytracing Ultra

Cyperpunk 2077 (1_12) - Kabuki Market - FrameTimeVariance - 2560 x 1440 (QHD) Raytracing Ultra

The lower the resolution gets, the more the FPS increases. The higher the FPS, the less time there is between frames and the more critical latency becomes for CPU and RAM as well. In QHD, this is most noticeable in that the 11700K is able to catch up significantly and is now a close second behind the 5950X with its fastest configuration. In third place is the B-Die control pattern and behind it all settings with rather mediocre latencies. Interestingly enough, AMD still stays ahead of Intel in terms of frame time variants.

Cyperpunk 2077 (1_12) - Kabuki Market - FPS - 1920 x 1080 (FHD) Raytracing Ultra

Cyperpunk 2077 (1_12) - Kabuki Market - FrameTimeVariance - 1920 x 1080 (FHD) Raytracing Ultra

At 1080p, the fastest configurations of both platforms are almost equally fast, mind you, despite a 600 MT/s clock difference. The lower overall latency clearly helps the Intel platform here, so that only the last two remain for AMD besides the first place, for the settings with the highest latencies. In fact, the Talos’ XMP profile slows the 5950X down so much that there is no performance gain compared to 1440p. If you want to hunt for FPS in Full HD with a big graphics card and CPU, you also need fast RAM in order not to be slowed down – actually no surprise.