Not just a visual eye-catcher – Corsair Vengeance RGB RT 2x 16 GB 3600 CL18 Kit Review with Overclocking and Teardown

1 - Introduction and specifications 2 - Unboxing and first impression 3 - Dimenstions and lighting 4 - SPD and heatsink performance 5 - Teardown and PCB analysis 6 - Test systems and methodology 7 - XMP behavior and overclocking 8 - Synthetic benchmarks – AIDA64 and Geekbench 3 9 - Gaming – Cyberpunk 2077 in UHD, QHD, FHD 10 - Final thoughts and conclusion

As an indicator of gaming performance, we again use our 1-minute real-world parcour around and through Kabuki Market in Cyberpunk 2077, version 1.3. This is what shows the most noticeable differences for gaming between CPU and RAM configurations and potential bottlenecks in the render pipeline towards the graphics card. 

The FHD, QHD and UHD resolutions were tested, each with the Raytracing Ultra preset. The pixel accelerator is an RTX 3090 Founders Edition from Nvidia with the latest public driver and maximum temperature and performance limits. The data is recorded with the Nvidia Frameview tool, based on the open source software PresentMon.

As usual, the differences in the “4K” are extremely small and almost in the range of run-to-run variance. Only the fastest and slowest config remain reproducibly on their places. So good news for potential buyers of the Corsair kit as well, which here can still almost fully utilize an RTX 3090 even in the XMP profile.

The picture continues from the FPS when it comes to the frame time variations, with all configurations perhaps measurably close, but humanly indistinguishable wgeb it comes to real gaming.

Even in the 1440p test, the Vengeance RGB RT modules can almost keep up with the TridentZ Neo control pattern. The differences from the slowest to the fastest config here are a maximum of 2 FPS on average and 4 FPS at the 1% lows, with the order remaining the same as in UHD.

For the first time, the ranking is really mixed in the frame time variants of the medium resolution, with a few color outliers up and down, but each from configs that were rather inconspicuous in the previous tests. Drawing any real conclusions based on this is difficult with this particular chart, as is often the case.

In 1080p then the most serious differences show up, with 6-8 FPS difference probably just starting to become noticeable. Interestingly, the B-Die XMP Config was overtaken by the Corsair modules with manual subtimings and the 1% low FPS is even close to the first place. The other configurations are measurably slower, but still deliver really good gaming performance.

The Corsair kit with manual tuning can also take second place in the frame time variants, with the two B-Die configs interestingly swapping places. However, the difference between green and yellow, i.e. the 4 ms threshold, is really decisive here, where the differences are really only minimal. And even the Corsair kit in XMP mode as the slowest config sends its FPS reliably without outliers on the journey towards the GPU.