Lower cinebench r23 score with XMP enabled than default.

[LethoX]

So I just upgraded my RAM today and I tried running cinebench r23 before putting XMP on, just because I was curious how much it would add to the score. So I got 10970 with BIOS completely default, with XMP enabled I got 10850. I know the difference isn't huge but in my mind the XMP should add atleast a little to the score. Anyone have an idea what could be causing this? Or perhaps it's just normal and cinebench r23 doesn't care about RAM speed? Default my RAM run at 2666MHz & Tcas(20)-Trcd(19)-Trp(19)-Tras(43). With XMP enabled they run at 3600MHz & Tcas(16)-Trcd(18)-Trp(18)-Tras(18). These numbers I took from HWinfo.

CPU: 5600x

Motherboard: MSI B550-A Pro

RAM: 2x16GB Crucial Ballistix 3600MHz cl16

[iMxmo]

make sure you dont have any other cpu utilizing processes running in the background, also make sure you do the same test for both. either way I wouldn't pay much attention to the score 

[LethoX]

1 minute ago, iCypticx said:

make sure you dont have any other cpu utilizing processes running in the background, also make sure you do the same test for both. either way I wouldn't pay much attention to the score 

I did them both about 5 minutes after startup without opening anything, so it should be the same test for both. But perhaps I should try a few more tests just in case something was running in the background when I tested XMP.

[Mister Woof]

that difference is really small and well within the margin of error with cinebench

 

and cinebench doesn't really seem to care about memory speeds to begin with

[LethoX]

1 minute ago, Mister Woof said:

that difference is really small and well within the margin of error with cinebench

 

and cinebench doesn't really seem to care about memory speeds to begin with

That's the answer I was hoping to see, now I can stop being worried about it