Apacer Panther Rage Illumination 16 GB 3000MHz DDR4 Memory Review

Performance

Cinebench

At stock clocks, the Panther Rage put out one of our strongest scores, hitting 3002 points in Cinebench, putting it head to heat with the Apacer Commando.

Interestingly, the score dropped 1 point while overclocked, not that you would really notice in terms of real-world performance.

AIDA64

The overall bandwidth performance was competitive, although the copy performance showed room for improvement. It’s not a bad score, but it’s on the lower end for a kit of this speed.

Fortunately, overclocking fixed up any issues with the copy performance, seeing it leap from 35492 to a much healthier 29956 Mbps. Of course, read and write performance also improved similarly too.

The kit also delivered some of our lowest ever latency performance, at just 46.5 ns it’s certainly responsive at stock speeds.

Overclocking saw that time drop to 45.6 ns, which is a very nice gain for any kit.

WPrime

At stock speeds, the Panther Rage very nearly set our best score yet for WPrime, but second place is hardly a let down at 5.485 seconds.

Not a huge gain while overclocked, but it still holds onto second place at 5.446 seconds.

3DMark Fire Strike

In a more gaming focused test, the Panther Rage set our second highest score here too. It scored a very respectable 14538 in 3DMark at stock speeds, and that score went up a little to 14553 once overclocked.