Page 2 - A Closer Look, Test System
The Patriot Viper Venom RGB DDR5-6200 2x16GB, being a part of the latest performance DDR5 line from the company, utilizes a set of medium profile heatspreaders. The black heatspreaders with red Viper logo and silver nameplate is quite attention grabbing, which will be furthered with the RGB LEDs when turned on. The Viper Venom RGB's aluminum pieces are distinctively shaped and molded with sharp lines to give it lots of visual flare and complexity. A translucent plastic diffuser at the top allows light to shine through. Aluminum is lightweight and serves as a decent heat conductor. The Viper Venom RGB is just over a centimeter taller than modules with no heatspreaders at all. This is useful for systems equipped with side mounted CPU heatsink fans adjacent to the memory slots, as it can piggy-back off the generated airflow. Since the heatspreader height is moderate, it is hard to imagine the Viper Venom RGB will interfere with any modern processor cooler. Whether you like to call it marketing gimmick or whatnot, it is impossible to find performance memory without any form of a heatspreader attached for quite a while now. They do undeniably serve a purpose in dissipating heat, but for most memory modules, unless run at a voltage significantly over designed voltages -- which you will not, special thanks to integrated memory controller voltage limits on Intel and AMD CPUs -- this feature is certainly not a requirement. But I will admit they look pretty cool in any windowed chassis.
The heatspreader design of the Patriot Viper Venom RGB modules is asymmetrical when looked at straight on, but symmetrical between sides, which is logical, because memory can be installed in different directions depending on your motherboard manufacturer and design. Besides functional purposes, it also improves the look. The Viper logo in red on one side with the Viper branding over a silver background on the other. Patriot's logo is not permanently etched anywhere at all like many of their latest products. A specification label is found on one side. It lists the model number (PVVR532G620C40K), bandwidth, CAS latency, voltage, and the kit's memory capacity. The Patriot Viper Venom RGB DDR5-6200 2x16GB is made in Taiwan.
As you can see more clearly in our photo above, the Patriot Viper Venom RGB DDR5-6200 2x16GB has a very nice black PCB. The LEDs are placed on the main PCB itself, and you can control them using Patriot's program or your motherboard's included software. Meanwhile, its heatspreader on top is composed of two separate pieces plus a plastic diffuser. The heatspreaders are held to the module itself by multiple strips of thermally conductive adhesive and are not physically locked together. The adhesive force between the two heatspreaders and memory ICs is pretty strong as always from the company, so if you ever do take them off, keep your hair dryer around.
From our above photo, it should also be clearer on how the heatspreaders are designed. The heatspreaders are mirror images of each other. The plastic lighting diffuser clips in between them. Since the pieces are made from thin aluminum -- but thick enough to resist easy bending, so it feels solid in the hand -- it does not hold a lot of heat, therefore dissipating the heat energy relatively quickly into the surrounding environment. Either way, you will probably never remove them, since the main selling point of Patriot's Viper Venom RGB are the RGB LED lights. If it does not clear your processor heatsink, then you might as well not buy this kit, haha.
A closer look at the memory chips on the Patriot Viper Venom RGB DDR5-6200 2x16GB dual channel memory kit. The photo above should be quite clear -- it says "H5CG48MEBDX014" on each IC. These are SK hynix-manufactured chips, with eight 2GB chips on one side only for a total of 16GB on each DIMM. As mentioned on the previous page, these RAM modules run at a frequency of DDR5-6200 with 40-40-40-76 latencies. These latencies are a bit higher than the competition, but we will see how they perform in just a moment. These modules operate at a stock voltage of 1.35V, which is higher than the base DDR5 voltage of 1.1V.
Our test configuration is as follows:
CPU: Intel Core i5 12600K
CPU Cooling: Noctua NH-U12A chromax.black
Motherboard: ASUS ProArt Z690-Creator WiFi
Graphics: EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti XC3 ULTRA GAMING
Chassis: None
Storage: XPG Atom 30 1TB
Power: Cooler Master V850 SFX Gold 850W
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 11 Pro
Compared Hardware:
- Patriot Viper Venom RGB DDR5-6200 2x16GB @ DDR5-6200 40-40-40-76
- Kingston FURY Beast DDR5-5200 2x16GB @ DDR5-5200 40-40-40-80
Page Index
1. Introduction, Packaging, Specifications
2. A Closer Look, Test System
3. Benchmark: AIDA64 CPU
4. Benchmark: AIDA64 FPU
5. Benchmark: AIDA64 Memory
6. Benchmark: PCMark 10
7. Benchmark: 3DMark
8. Benchmark: PassMark PerformanceTest 10
9. Benchmark: SuperPI 1M, Cinebench R23
10. Overclocking and Conclusion
