Review | Here Comes the Gospel for Gamers! Quintech Captain T4 DDR5-6400MHz Memory

Foreword

Recently, DIY players seem to be the New Year, solid-state cabbage price, even before the expensive DDR5 memory, there is also a spring-like outbreak of trend, not only the ordinary frequency of the memory price dropped greatly, but even some of the high-end overclocking particles equipped with DDR5 memory is also gradually popularized.

I'm sure I'll want to get my hands on a good DDR5 memory to boost my hardware performance. We've already tested the Kimtigo Captain T4 DDR5-6000MHz memory, and this time Kimtigo is taking advantage of the situation by launching an even higher frequency DDR5 6400MHz and it's said that this memory is equipped with the legendary overclocking particles, Hynix A-Die, which will make it a great choice for performance. Let's take a look at the performance of this memory.

Kimtigo T4 DDR5-6400MHz Memory Appearance

Kimtigo T4 DDR5-6400MHz memory is packaged in a single box, with metallic gray as the main color of the outer packaging, on the box, the Kimtigo "Tiger" logo with reflective logo is presented, and the light white "Kimtigo "Logo characters, full of Kimtigo characters, can be seen on the hand, brand recognition pull full!

The back of the box is labeled with the product name Kimtigo Captain T4, with a single capacity of 16GB, a dual-channel capacity of 32GB, at a frequency of 6400MHz, and a specification of DDR5, which is enough for most gamers, not only for smooth gaming, but also for coping with some high-load workloads.

Lifting the lid, the CaptainT4 DDR5-6400MHz memory is right there in the sponge, even the memory sticks are protected by a film covering to ensure that the memory reaches you safely. I have to say that this packaging, compared to other brands, is durable and quite advanced at the same time.

The Captain T4 DDR5-6400MHz memory comes in two colors, and we received the Onyx Red colorway this time. The deep red appearance with the metallic vest is passionate and brings a lot of vitality to the black motherboard. If you choose to mix and match onyx red and metallic gray, then the installation effect should have a different flavor.

Captain T4 DDR5-6400MHz memory using conventional cooling vest + memory stick design, aluminum vest shell is already quite sharp, and the middle also adopts a mirror design, reflecting the flashing "T4" characters, showing the metallic texture. The two sides of the vest for the multi-track racing channel design, square and angular, bring a strong visual impact, like a brand new mech, showing the T4's severity.

The heavy cooling armor is not enough, Gintech has also stuffed a lot of cooling measures in the location you can't see. Through the gap between the cooling armor and the PCB substrate, you can see that there is a thermally conductive silicone inside for heat conduction, and the heat generated by the chip when working is conducted to the cooling armor through the cooling pads, which can reduce the surface temperature by more than 10% and ensure the stable operation of the memory.

However, DDR5 and DDR4 are still different, you look at the gold finger of the Goldtek Captain T4 DDR5 memory you know, although it is familiar with the 288 pins, but the anti-dumbing notch location is different, DDR5 memory will be more in the middle of some of the two are not physically compatible with each other, you must pay attention to the purchase of the motherboard.

The back of the memory sticker also has a nameplate sticker, and here there is a lot more information than on the box, so you can see the specific model number of the memory, we got two 16GB of memory, forming a 32GB dual-channel, the frequency of 6400MHz, belonging to the mainstream level of DDR5 memory products.

Of course, the operating voltage of these two DDR5 memory has also been lowered to 1.1V, with lower energy consumption than DDR4 memory, and a new On-die ECC error correction function has been added, which is conducive to increasing the stability of the memory when it is working, and the overclocking is also more stable.

Test Platform Introduction of Kimtigo T4 DDR5-6400MHz 

The test platform we used in the evaluation room of the town treasure, the processor for the i9-13900KS, motherboard for the ROG MAXIMUS Z790 HERO, graphics card for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti, such a configuration can play out the potential of the Kimtigo Captain T4 DDR5-6400MHz memory.

Before testing, we went to the motherboard BIOS to check the information of Kimtigo Captain T4 DDR5-6400MHz, the manufacturer is Kimtigo, the particle manufacturer is SK Hynix, supports INTEL's latest XMP 3.0 technology, and the PMIC manufacturer is Richtek.

The XMP feature is also turned on, which at this point allows this memory to run at decent performance.

Theoretical Performance Test of Kimtigo T4 DDR5-6400MHz 

As usual, after we get on the machine, we still use the software to check the memory information, and we can see that CPU-Z indicates that the particles of this Kimtigo Captain T4 DDR5-6400MHz memory come from Hynix, with an operating voltage of 1.1V, and after turning on the XMP, the operating voltage is 1.35V, and it supports the one-click XMP to the high-performance DDR5-6400MHz C32 with low Timing.

The information can also be seen from CPU-Z, but in the number of channels identified as four channels, which is mainly DDR5 memory to split the 64-bit data bandwidth into two 32-bit addressable channels, to achieve the so-called single support for the effect of dual DIMMs. Although the number of channels is doubled, the number of memory sticks has not increased, so the true meaning of DDR5 dual-channel still needs to be plugged into the full 2 sticks.

The high and low memory frequency also has an impact on CPU performance, the most intuitive is to look at the data compression and decompression, the use of 7-Zip on the Goldtek Captain T4 DDR5-6400MHz memory test, in the standard 4800MHz frequency, the compression test score of 148.06 GIPS, uncompression test score of 216.84 GIPS, the overall test score of 182.45 GIPS. 182.45 GIPS. A small bump to 5600MHz gives compression performance an additional 8% improvement over 4800MHz. If you turn on XMP, you'll see that the score can be further boosted to 187.03 GIPS for compression, 221.75 GIPS for decompression, and 204.39 GIPS for the overall score, which is a significant improvement.

Of course, the height of the memory frequency is still mainly reflected in the memory bandwidth, in the AIDA64 memory benchmark test, we first tested the standard starting frequency of DDR5 RAM 4800MHz, Jintek Captain T4 DDR5-6400MHz memory at 4800MHz read, write, copy and latency scores of 74565 MB/s, 68382 MB/s, 68426 MB/s, and 89.5 ns. The overall performance is higher than the DDR4 class. 5600MHz, latency is slightly lower, while read, write, and copy performance comes in at 76,000-86,000 MB/s, which is a full 10,000 MB/s higher than at 4800MHz.

If you raise the frequency to XMP-6400MHz, and with the ultra-low timing of C32, the results are outrageous, at this time, reading 100404 MB/s, writing 86902 MB/s, copying 90044 MB/s, latency is only 68.4 ns. Directly approaching 100GB/s, it can be said that this performance has already exceeded many high-frequency DDR5 memory.

Gaming Performance Test of Kimtigo T4 DDR5-6400MHz 

For gamers, the most concerned about the memory frequency on the game frame rate. We also chose a number of games to test, both typical 3A masterpieces and sometimes popular online games, there is always one for you.

Looking at Forza Horizon 5 first, the standard starting frequency of 4800MHz running Forza Horizon 5 benchmark test, measured the average frame rate of the game is 206 FPS, CPU rendering is 199 FPS, CPU simulation is 324 FPS. 5600MHz, CPU simulation and rendering compared to the 4800MHz boosted by about 9% or so. When you turn on XMP, the frequency increased to 6000MHz, the average frame rate of CPU simulation rose to 388 FPS, the enhancement is to an exaggerated 17%, the average frame rate of CPU rendering for 214 FPS, compared to the base frequency of 4800MHz enhancement of about 7%, the actual test can be seen, increase the frequency of the game performance has a certain help.

Similar games include Gears of War 5, Crysis 6, and F1 22. We have carried out detailed tests one by one, after turning on the XMP-6400MHz Kimtigo Captain T4 DDR5 memory can indeed bring a certain performance improvement, especially "Gears of War 5", "Crysis 6", the frame rate increase are more than 20 frames or more, which is reflected in the game's most intuitive experience is that the game frame rate rose, the operation is more with the hand.

For online gaming we measured two popular FPS games, CS:GO and Fearless Compact. One thing is for sure, the memory frequency does have an impact on some online games, and the performance of the Kimtigo Captain T4 DDR5-6400MHz memory at 4800MHz is indeed not as bright as with XMP turned on, which gives a considerable boost to the game's frame rate.

The most obvious is Fearless Pact, under high frequency, both the average frame and 1%Low frame have a 10% improvement! So users who like to play online games can upgrade their RAM to Kimtigo Captain T4 DDR5-6400MHz, and the high-frequency and low-timing performance is sure to take your gaming experience a step further.

Creative Performance Test of Kimtigo T4 DDR5-6400MHz 

After testing the game, we naturally have to test the creative performance, we choose Puget Bench's Da Vinci, AE, LR, and PS for testing, the increase in memory frequency is really a good thing for this kind of software. Some programs are even able to improve 100-200 points, like Da Vinci, 6400MHz performance compared to 4800MHz, an increase of 5%, the score rose nearly 200 points, you can not underestimate the one or two hundred points, reflected in the reality of the operation is that a higher memory frequency can bring you a faster response and higher efficiency.

In terms of creative productivity, we also tested the UL Procyon, and the performance of the Kimtigo Captain T4 DDR5-6400MHz in the UL Procyon content creation performance was basically the same as the Puget Bench test, with the advantage of high frequency and low timings still evident, which can have a significant impact on the performance of the whole machine.

Other productivity we also tested Blender rendering and X264 video encoding and transcoding, and from the test scores it is clear that the XMP of the Kimtigo Captain T4 DDR5-6400MHz is really something, both in terms of rendering speed and transcoding efficiency is quite a bit better than the JEDEC DDR5-4800 performance.

Review Summary of Kimtigo T4 DDR5-6400MHz 

One thing's for sure, after one round of testing, the Kimtigo Captain T4 DDR5-6400MHz really exceeded my expectations. The colorful appearance of the T4 DDR5-6400MHz is even more impressive, with a high performance of 6400MHz C32 under XMP, it's a real performance monster that gamers can use right out of the box. The exquisite design of this memory is the icing on the cake, making it even more eye-catching.

The performance of this memory is quite aggressive, with the 6400MHz at XMP being close to or even exceeding 100GB/s in read/write performance. If your platform is strong enough, the overclocked performance will be quite impressive, with better frame rates and no frame drops in gaming tests, and of course, overclocking will improve your CPU's single-core and multi-core performance to a certain extent.

Most importantly, the Kimtigo T4 DDR5-6400MHz memory is equipped with Hynix particles, and players familiar with the hardware should know that it has excellent overclocking space, and compared to other DDR5 memory, the playability of the memory is full, which is perfectly in line with the imagination of geeky gamers. If you want to get a DDR5 memory recently, you can consider the Kimtigo Captain T4 DDR5 memory, powerful performance additions, so you can enjoy the game firepower, creative efficiency burst.