Performance Memory

At all times and measurements the system baseclock and multiplier will remain the same, meaning each and every difference you spot on performance is a direct results of changed memory frequency and timings.

Memory Read test

Okay so for the first round of tests, synthetic testing. Above you can see read memory performance of the dual-channel memory configurations at 1333 MHz on the Z68 platforms with a Core i7 2600K processor.

Now you need to continuously compare memory frequency performance as that is what we'll be looking at today. For all tests I also removed two DIMMs with 16Gb memory top see if that makes any difefernce.

Intel's entire Sandy bridge architecture and specifically here the memory controller harbored inside these processors just hauls ass, with a dual-channel memory setup with 2133MHz read perf closing in at 22K MB/sec.

Memory Write test

Write performance then -- To give you an idea, a Phenom II series processor will perform roughly in-between 7000 MB/sec -- 8000 MB/sec here with sharp timings.

G.Skill in dual-channel mode reaches a astonishing 20000 MB/sec at 2133. But even 1333 MHz chunks out silly numbers here. And that's the trivial aspect of today's tested memory on an Intel series 6 chipset/ SB processor platform.

Sandra Memory Index

One more synthetic memory test, here we make use of the Sandra Memory performance test, it gives us an index score of overall memory performance. Here again the numbers show amazing performance differences.