Kingston H20 6GB 2000MHz DDR3 Review

For our testing we’re going up against our recently reviewed Mushkin Blackline. Despite that being a 1333MHz kit at default it performed very well at 2000MHz and so we’re going to run that as well as both the Mushkin and the Kingston at 200×20.

AIDA64

The latest benchmarking tool from the team that brought us the excellent Everest is AIDA64, which runs very similar tests to Everest.

In the Memory benchmarks at 2000MHz it was close between the Mushkin and the HyperX H₂0 with the HyperX H₂0 just being pipped in read, but pulling back some in the copy tests. With the CPU at 4GHz the reverse was true as the lower timings of the Mushkin helped in the read tests, but the more focused nature of the HyperX H₂0 allowed it to stretch a gap in the copy testing.

 

CineBench R11.5

CineBench is a much more real-world benchmark than the Synthetic tests of AIDA64 and the like. There are two benchmarks involved. The first, CPU, takes a much bigger hit from any differences in CPU performance than memory as such, and the scores reflect this. They are very close indeed although it’s slightly worrying to see that both variances fall to the HyperX H₂0 being slightly slower.

The second test is of the OpenGL and this makes more use of the system as a whole. At normal settings the results again are within a hairs breadth of each other but as the CPU is overclocked to 4GHz the HyperX H₂0 falls behind again.