Summary and conclusion
It is common practice for RAM manufacturers to use different RAM ICs within their product lines, if not within the same product. Almost every IC can handle DDR5-6000 CL38 at 1.35 V and so the new Samsung 16 Gbit S-Die has made it into this SKU of the Corsair Vengeance modules. The modules including heat sink are nothing new, basically work well as a mid-range model and at this point I link again to the previous test with Micron ICs:
However, if you want more than just RAM in XMP mode, it all depends on the internals and, above all, on the memory components (ICs). Since it would make little sense to install ICs with a lot of OC potential in a 6000 CL38 kit, my expectations were rather low right from the start. Unfortunately, the kit in this SKU with the Corsair version “4.43.19” has managed to undercut this yet.
If you are simply looking for a RAM kit that runs stably in XMP mode and can’t do anything else, you could maybe go for this kit for 113 euros. The performance here is mediocre and you get “just RAM”. However, anyone who is even remotely considering tinkering with the clock and timings themselves should avoid this SKU by some distance.
The only criticism we can address to Corsair is the limited cooling capacity relative to the ICs waste heat and the misleading PMIC designation. The ICs themselves are on the market and will end up in consumer products one way or another, whether from a renowned brand or not. Though, as an alternative, Corsair offers a 6000 30-36 kit with guaranteed SK Hynix 16 Gbit M- or A-Die ICs for seven euros more, which offer approx. 3% more performance in XMP and at the same time potential for up to around 35% more performance in overclocked state.
The fact that Samsung, after several years of development, has not been able to catch up with or even surpass its first DDR5 IC 16 Gbit B-Die with the 16 Gbit P-Die is quite astonishing – theoretically there are seventeen revisions between B and P. Is Samsung so lost when it comes to the development of DDR5 memory chips? Have they been resting too much on the laurels of the DDR4 8 Gbit B-die blockbuster? Even the manufacturer Micron, which was left behind at the beginning of DDR5, has now managed to improve and not only catch up with Samsung but also overtake them.
Samsung has also brought other ICs onto the market since then. In addition to the 16 Gbit D-Die mentioned at the beginning, which according to some forum reports was also not a hit, there is now also a 16 Gbit P-Die, which is currently only installed on RDIMMs. As I don’t have an RDIMM-capable platform, I unfortunately can’t test it at the moment. But Samsung has launched another IC: the 24 Gbit B-Die and the test kit for it from G.Skill has just arrived in my mailbox today. I wonder if Samsung can take a step forward with this?
The memory kit was purchased privately for the purpose of testing.
Corsair Vengeance schwarz DIMM Kit 32GB, DDR5-6000, CL38-44-44-96, on-die ECC (CMK32GX5M2B6000C38)
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Corsair Vengeance grau DIMM Kit 32GB, DDR5-6000, CL30-36-36-76, on-die ECC (CMK32GX5M2B6000Z30)
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