Review: Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 7200 MT/s CL34

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Intel configuration test:

Of course, this kit will only be tested on an Intel platform since AMD does not yet have motherboards supporting DDR5.

  • Motherboard: ROG Maximus Z690 APEX edition 2022 and Z790 APEX for the OC
  • Processor : Intel i9-12900K Alder Lake and i9-13900K Rocket Lake for the OC
  • Memory : 32 GB Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 7200 MT/s CL34
  • Graphics Card: MSI GT 710
  • Cooling system : Optimus Foundation + 480 mm EK radiator
  • SSD : Western Digital SN850 NVMe SSD M.2
  • Power supply : be quiet! Dark Power PRO 12 1500w
  • Operating system : Windows 10 64 bits

Aida 64 :

Logiciel AIDA64It is a software able to provide you with a lot of information about your configuration but it has the particularity to have a memory benchmark. It will calculate the speed of reading, writing, copying and the latency of your memory kit. It is very often used to compare memory kits between them. It is an excellent tool if you want to compare the performance of your memory kit with those we have already had the opportunity to test. The version used for the tests is 6.50.2812 beta and we have taken the performance of the previously tested kits. The performance of this first test seems perfectly logical to us, with a second place and a speed of 109780 MB/s. The Corsair kit shares almost identical characteristics to the Teamgroup kit, which means that the performance is very similar in our different charts. As a reminder, our best score in DDR4 was 61325 MB/s with the Corsair Dominator Platinum at 4800 MT/s CL19. So, as usual on an Intel platform, we will have to focus on frequency and tight timings. In writing, same observation but it is here our sample of the day which takes the first place with a speed of 96125 MB/s. The Corsair Dominator Platinum 4800 MT/s CL19 in DDR4 obtained 67251 MB/s. Once again, we note a logical progression between the different frequencies. The result is quite close to that of the Corsair 6600 MT/s CL32 kit because even though the frequency of the GSKill kit is higher, we go from a CL32 to a CL34. The findings are the same in copy with again a second place for our sample of the day but it is not a big deal. The Corsair Dominator Platinum 4800 MT/s CL19 in DDR4 had a copy speed of 57330 MB/s. As you can see, it is in reading and copying that DDR5 takes a very large lead over DDR4. Finally, the latency. This is the value that all eyes are on because DDR5 is a bit behind. Our best DDR4 kit at this little game was the G.SKill Trident Z Royal Elite 4000 MT/S CL14 which obtained 41.4 ns. You’ll notice that the higher the DDR5 frequency, the narrower this gap becomes. Note that a DDR4 kit in 3200 MT/S CL16 has a latency of 50.3 ns. Here we get 57.9 ns for our Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 7200 MT/s CL34.

Geekbench 3.4.4 :

Logiciel Geekbench 3.4.2It is a benchmark available in several revisions, version 5 having just been released a few weeks ago. It allows you to obtain two scores: one in single and the other in multi. Using this benchmark, we will focus on the performance obtained on the ” Memory Multi-Core ” score which allows to differentiate the memory performance. The version used for the tests is 3.4.4. For the Geekbench 3 benchmark, despite the fact that in single core the frequency of our i9-12900K is 5.2 GHz, there is a difference in score between the different memory kits. Our kit of the day takes the first place with 8170 points. For information, in DDR4, our best kit was the G.SKill Trident Z Royal 4400 MT/S CL16 with 5617 points. In multi core, the gap between our kits is less important. For your information, in DDR4, our best score was 48800. Of course, we have to take into account the DDR5 but also the performance brought by the Alder Lake CPU. As soon as we isolate the memory score, real differences are visible between the kits. Our kit of the day gets a score of 11734 points! This score allows us to see that what we gain with a higher frequency is lost on the other hand with more relaxed primary timings. In DDR4, our best kit obtained only a score of 7748 points. Once again we can see the huge advantage of DDR5 in combination with the Alder Lake processor.

Geekbench 5.2.5 :

Capture Geekbench 5.2.5We decided to add this extra benchmark but why? The CPU benchmark uses new tests that more closely simulate the tasks that processors face in recent applications. Geekbench 5 also increases the memory used in the benchmark to better reflect the impact of this parameter in the CPU results. For now, we will keep both since version 3 is still widely used. While in Geekbench 3 we had a difference in single core, here in version 5 the performance is pretty much the same and it is our kit of the day that takes second place with a total of 2029 points. Finally, the last score of our benchmark series with a total of 19759 points for our sample. Still to give you a reference score in DDR4, our best score was 11179 points. In short, you will have understood in this series of tests, our sample of the day plays elbows with the Teamgroup 7200 MT/s kit since their performances with the XMP profile are almost identical.