Introduction

Corsair is a well-known brand name by this point in the United States and Europe, partially thanks to easily identifiable yellow product boxes. The company has been well established in the computer market for a number of years now, offering gaming peripherals, flash drives, SSDs, AIOs, watercooling hardware, power supplies and entire pre-built computers. Of course, let’s not forget about the highly successful memory division, which continually strives to offer the newest emerging technologies with the unmatched customer service Corsair is known for.

Now that AMD has released its first generation of Ryzen processors that is exclusively DDR5, adoption rate is steadily increasing while supply and demand has evened out as we finish 2022. Throughout 2023, we should see prices continue to decrease as the market shifts to higher volume DDR5 sales. AMD has created a new memory profile called Extended Profiles for Overclocking (EXPO), specifically optimized for new AMD Ryzen CPUs. This technology is also a open standard, which can in turn be implemented into Intel systems as well.

Corsair currently offers an assortment of memory products ranging from laptop DDR3 SODIMMs to PC enthusiast grade DDR5 memory. Using the well established DDR4 memory lines, Corsair brings forward both Vengeance and Dominator products reusing the names and overall design language for the DDR5 iteration. Both products are available in RGB, with the Vengeance series offering non-RGB memory kits as well. AMD specific configurations include 32 GB (2x 16 GB) and 64 GB (2x 32 GB) kits with frequencies ranging from 5200 MT/s to 6400 MT/s. In this review, we will be taking a closer look at the Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR5-6000 AMD memory kit. Equipped with enthusiast grade timings of 30-36-36-76 operating at 1.4 V for the 6000 MT/s EXPO profile, it provides higher bandwidth and considerable performance gains compared to baseline JEDEC 4800 MT/s DDR5 with a CAS latency of 40 operating at 1.1 V. Marketed exclusively towards consumers with AMD systems, we will benchmark this this Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR5 32 GB kit and see how it stacks up to the competition, along with some overclocking as well!

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