Lavalys Everest

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Everest is a comprehensive suite of benchmarking tools that can gauge the theoretical performance of every sub-system and component of your PC. We use the Memory and Cache benchmark to see how data flows into and out of the CPU.

Open the application and go to the Tools menu. Then click Cache and Memory Benchmark and click the Start Benchmark button. Everest will test the speed of all levels of CPU cache as well as memory throughput.





While the AMD memory controller doesn't lack for low latencies, it can't compete with the triple-channel memory of Core i7's Nehalem architecture. The 920 is consistently faster at reading, writing and copying to and from memory. It's interesting to see that the 965 EE and 975 EE aren't that much faster than the 920 despite the extra clock frequency and a fatter bus linking the CPU to memory.

As all three Core i7 CPUs had similarly fast memory controllers after overclocking, it's no surprise to see overclocked memory performance was similar across all three Core i7 CPUs.