Ryzen 7000 Series – Is Faster Memory BETTER?? [5200MHz Vs 6000MHz]

3DMark Firestrike

3DMark tests your system’s GPU and CPU performance by rendering extremely demanding game-like scenes in real-time. The faster the benchmark runs, the better your score. Now your quest begins. What can you do to get a better score?

3DMark is available on Steam here.

Moving onto 3DMark Firestrike and we see some interesting results as the Physics score on the 12900K increases by just over 7% with the faster memory, which in turn sees the overall score also increase by 4.6% but that’s about as far as the good news goes as the 7900X sees a decrease in performance, the 7600X sees less than a 1% improvement and the 12600K the same.

3DMark Timespy

Time Spy is a DirectX 12 benchmark test for gaming PCs running Windows 10 and above only. With its pure DirectX 12 engine, built from the ground up to support the latest API features like asynchronous compute, explicit multi-adapter, and multi-threading, Time Spy is the ideal benchmark for testing the DirectX 12 performance of modern graphics cards and is typically a good benchmark for mid-to-high-end hardware. Furthermore, Timespy Extreme is designed for 4K performance testing.

3DMark is available on Steam here.

As we went into 3DMark Timespy we see a bit of a mixed bag with the 12900K seeing just under a 5% uplift with the faster memory, while the 12600K sees a much smaller increase of just under 1% but where things get really interesting is when we look at the Ryzen 7000 series, with the 7600X giving us a 4% uplift in the overall score, while the 7900X shoots forward by a whopping 10.8% when comparing to the slower 5200MHz memory.

Geekbench 5

Geekbench 5 is a cross-platform benchmark that measures your system’s performance with the press of a button. How will your mobile device or desktop computer perform when push comes to crunch? How will it compare to the newest devices on the market? Find out today with Geekbench 5.

Available now on Geekbench.

Looking at Geekbench and starting with the single core performance. The biggest uplift that we see again is from the 12900K with an improvement of 6.3% over the slower DDR5 kit while both AMD CPUs did see an uplift, but only by around 0.8% while the 12600K saw a slightly better but still fairly insignificant 1.3% when moving to the faster kit.

When looking at the multi-core performance, we again see a strong gain from the 12900K of 6%, though the 7900X does fight back and manages to keep its lead over the 12900K with a 5.6% improvement with the faster DDR5 kit. The 7600X does give some improvements but only with a 2.2% uplift, while the 12600K sees much larger gains of just over 7%, further cementing its lead over the similar Ryzen CPU.

PCMark 10

PCMark 10 features a comprehensive set of tests that cover the wide variety of tasks performed in the modern workplace. With a range of performance tests, custom run options, Battery Life Profile, and new Storage benchmarks, PCMark 10 is the complete PC benchmark for the modern office.

Available now on Steam.

In PCMark 10 we saw some impressive gains across the board, though some were better than others. While the 7600X saw a 5.2% increase in performance when moving to the faster kit, the 7900X saw a slightly better improvement of 7.6% which helps push past both Intel counterparts, though they did try fighting back with a 9.6% uplift on the 12600K and a massive 13% improvement for the 12900K, though the 7900X still ends up sitting just over 3% ahead of it.