Final Words & Conclusion

Final Words & Conclusion

The Patriot Viper Venom 6200 CL40 kit offers users a very good performance already out of the box. It looks nice; also, there’s RGB applicable here if you want it. The heat spreader comes in matte black with aluminum accents. The range of available frequencies is extensive. The slowest module in this series operates at 5200 MHz (a 2 x 8 GB kit), and the fastest one reaches 6200 MHz, and we checked it in this review. Users should be satisfied with the Patriot offer. As with the other DDR5 kits, it is aimed only at Intel users (for now, as AM5 should debut in mid-September). 

Aesthetics

Patriot has made the Viper Venom attractive. If you select the RGB version, you can set lighting using the motherboard utilities. 

Tweaking

The memory chips used here come from Hynix. We achieved a nice tweaked CL36 with 6400 Mhz at 1.4 V (1.35 V is the baseline value). You can always lower the latencies further (CL32?) and leave the standard 6200 MHz frequency. Still, you’d better try to cool the memory down with some active cooling for the best results. As we usually state –reproducibility of the overclocking capabilities is never guaranteed, and your results may vary.

Conclusion

The Patriot kit we checked provides a default frequency (6200 MHz) that will be enough for practically all users, and the XMP 3.0 profile makes life easier. The stock performance is in a range of expected (very close to the high-end). There’s some headroom still available, so if you want more, you can try to overclock the memory even further. The reviewed kit on our Z690 platform enabled it to achieve 6400 MHz with CL36. It’s a great result; remember that those are 16 GB modules. The low-profile heat spreader (43 mm), so you shouldn’t encounter any clearance problems with most air CPU coolers. The 32 GB option is a lot for most users nowadays. This 2 x 16 GB kit is ~285 USD, which is quite expensive compared to the DDR4 modules, but you must remember that it’s high-end RAM, and the direct competition is not necessarily cheaper. The current price for the DDR5s is very steep (mainly due to the shortage of the PMIC), and it still doesn’t look to be lower in the coming days. We can give Patriot a “Guru3D Approved” award for this fast, quite overclockable, capable kit (still - it is nothing outstanding compared to the competitor's offers). The temperature is rather good. But the price is the main downside of such a high-end kit (same as most of the DDR5s). Most users won’t accept it at the moment. Especially when compared to the DDR4 kits, you’ll get not so much worse performance results (for now, at least compared to the current available DDR5 memories, probably it’ll look different with the Intel Raptor Lake or AMD AM5 CPUs, especially with frequencies above 6400-6600 MHz). 

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