How would one benchmark memory performance (DRAM latency & bandwidth) on the various chips?
I mean, that's exactly how an 11th Gen Core laptop is constructed.
You can run basically any Intel CPU at DDR4-4266 without any issue. Or you can go thread ripper and laugh in quad channel memory. Or Intel x299 and triple-channel memory.
You don't have to tune anything, either, the RAM comes pre-tuned with the right timings in the XMP profile.
but it's pretty straightforward to just copy giant buffers in order/out of order and squint really hard at the results