Crucial DDR5-5200 & 5600
2. Tests
For our tests, we used the following test system
- AMD 7950X CPU + Noctua NH-U12A Chromax.black (2x120mm fans)
- Asus ProArt X670E-CREATOR WIFI Motherboard with the latest BIOS installed (1415 AGESA 1.0.0.7a)
- MSI 4090 Suprim X Graphics Card with v535.98 Nvidia Drivers installed
- Samsung 980Pro 1TB with the latest BIOS NVME SSD
- Seasonic Vertex GX 1000W Power Supply
- Dell S2721QS 4K Monitor @ 60Hz
- Windows 11 Pro Edition + latest updates installed
- Test Stability:
- quick testing 30min OCCT v12 Memory Test
- stable testing Testmem5 absolute(01102021)@anta777.cfg (3 cycles)
Both modules were installed at the B2/B4 channels suggested by the motherboard vendor. We had to manually perform ClearCMOS to get everything started and the memory training for the DDR5 platform with the Asus motherboard isn't long, the first boot came around 20 seconds, and the first power up. After that point, the system is much faster at boot.
After getting the first boot, the Asus motherboard recognized and set the memory initially, at DDR5-5200 for both the DDR5-5200 / DDR5-5600 memory kits, without enabling any EXPO/XMP profiles. That is very nice since users will automatically get descend performance without enabling any EXPO / XMP profile.
Under the BIOS motherboard, we can set the EXPO / XMP profile, for the DDR5-5200 there is DDR5-4800 / DDR5-5200, while for the DDR5-5600 there are two profiles, for the 5200MHz, and for the 5600MHz speeds.
Getting into Windows 11, we get more information about our memory kit from the CPU-Z software.
Crucial DDR5-5200 (EXPO/XMP profiles for 4800 & 5200)
The DDR5-5200 memory kit was manufactured in 05 weeks of 2023 and has both EXPO/XMP profiles running at 4800/5200 at 1.10V.
Crucial DDR5-5600 (EXPO/XMP profiles for 5200 & 5600)
The DDR5-5600 memory kit was manufactured in 01 week of 2023 and has both EXPO/XMP profiles running at 5200/5600 at 1.10V.
Then we used the free latest version of the Thaiphoon Burner which includes more information about the used modules.
You could use the Crucial DDR5-5600 up to 6000MHz with the same memory timings as the 5600MHz, however, you need to push the voltage to 1.30V to get the system stable. We also tried to further lower timings, however, the system was not stable, it probably needs more voltage (1.40V) to get further tight timings, which are not recommended without an installed heat spread. The DDR5-5200 memory kit can also work at 5600MHz without any issue at CL46 v1.1V.
For our tests, we performed all tests at all possible running speeds 4800/5200/5600 EXPO profiles and the 6000MHz (OC) to showcase all possible scenarios you could run this memory module.
AIDA64 Cache And Memory Benchmark (v6.88.6423)
As was expected, the higher memory performance comes from the 6000CL46, which however needs 1.30V to be stable. The software reports around 70.8ns with the 6000CL46 and around 74.5ns with the "stock" 5600CL46. The 5200CL42 is at 78.6ns,
MemoryMark (Performance Test 10.2 Suite)
This test gives an overall score for the installed memory and we can see that the 6000CL46 has the highest memory mark score with 3825 points. The 5600CL46 got 3735 and the 5200CL42 got around 3673 points.
Passing to the well-known GeekBench, this software tests the performance either in single or total cores, and as we can see there is a performance difference in both single/multi-core index scores as memory frequency rises.
We used the latest version of the well-known PCMark10 and we saw some performance differences in the total overall score, after setting the various memory frequencies of the tested memory. The 4800CL40 (DDR5-5200) gave the lowest score, so you should use at least the DDR5-5200 CL42 and of course, the DDR5-5600 CL46, which however isn't so much faster.
What are the working temperatures of the modules of the Crucial memory? With stock working speeds and voltage (1.1V)., the modules will work up to 48 Celsius (idle) ~ 57 Celsius (max). When we performed overclocking (6000MHz) we saw up to 62.3 Celsius when running at 1.30V.
