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Memory Benchmarks

Lavalys Everest Ultimate v5.00

Everest Ultimate is the most useful tool for any and all benchmarkers or overclockers. With the ability to pick up most voltage, temperature, and fan sensors on almost every motherboard available, Everest provides the ability to customize the outputs in a number of forms on your desktop. In addition to this, the memory benchmarking utility provides a useful tool of measuring the changes to your memory sub-system.


In the Everest Bandwidth test it should come as no surprise that the DDR3-2000 setting leads the way, especially given the fact that it benefits from the highest Uncore/Integrated Memory Controller (IMC) frequency (4000Mhz vs. 3733Mhz vs. 3200Mhz). While the memory read speeds are fairly static across the board, we do see a 15% increase in write speeds and a 22% boost in copy speeds. The results from this benchmark were effectively a no-brainer, but let's see what happens on the latency front.



Surprise, surprise. DDR3-2000 9-9-9 produces lower latency results than DDR3-1600 6-7-6. Why? Well once again the faster Uncore/IMC frequency comes into play. Simply put, if you want to achieve the very best results in memory benchmarks, your primary focus should be the IMC frequency since it can make or break your results.


ScienceMark v2.0

Although last updated almost 3 years ago, and despite its rudimentary interface, ScienceMark v2.0 remains a favorite for accurately calculating bandwidth on even the newest chipsets.


In ScienceMark, we see a very linear bandwidth increase across the board with the DDR3-2000 9-9-9 configuration leading the way once more. These synthetic benchmarks do suggest that the higher memory clocks the better, irrespective of the looser timings required, but does this actually translate into faster real-life performance? That is what we are going to find out next.