Performance - DDR3 Memory read | write

Memory Read test

Obviously we also had to peek at memory bandwidth performance. Now, obviously Intel has an advantage here, triple-channel memory. This explains the tremendous amount of read performance for the Core i7 platform.

If you'd filter that out though, the dual-channel performance DDR3 performance achieved with Phenom II X3 720 BE and our 1333 MHz DDR3 is nice, but nothing really extreme.

Memory Write test

The same goes for the memory write tests. Of course Intel dominates here and considering we used 1333 JEDEC memory on that platform, it even shows a somewhat slow number. Triple channel performance on Nehalem is just frighteningly good really.

The new AM3 Phenom II processors in both read and write performance seem to benefit from the new memory controller, it's really fast, yet the difference between DDR2 and DDR3 in write performance is nearly NIL.