The Best Memory for Sandy Bridge Bandwidth & Cinebench We've fired up the execution engines and put the pedal to the, uh, silicon to see how Sandy Bridge compares to its older Core brothers across several memory frequencies and latencies.
Sisoft Sandra 2011 Download from: Sisoftware
1,333MHz CL9
1,333MHz CL8
1,333MHz CL7
1,600MHz CL9
1,600MHz CL8
1,600MHz CL7
1,866MHz CL9
1,866MHz CL8
1,866MHz CL7
2,133MHz CL9
2,133MHz CL8
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MB/sec, Higher Is Better
1,333MHz CL9
1,333MHz CL8
1,333MHz CL7
1,600MHz CL9
1,600MHz CL8
1,600MHz CL7
1,866MHz CL9
1,866MHz CL8
1,866MHz CL7
2,133MHz CL9
2,133MHz CL8
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Nanoseconds, Lower Is Better
Cinebench R10 64-bit Download from: Maxon
1,333MHz CL9
1,333MHz CL8
1,333MHz CL7
1,600MHz CL9
1,600MHz CL8
1,600MHz CL7
1,866MHz CL9
1,866MHz CL8
1,866MHz CL7
2,133MHz CL9
2,133MHz CL8
Points, Higher Is Better
1 - The Best Memory for Sandy Bridge
2 - The Best Memory for Sandy Bridge Test Setup
3 - The Best Memory for Sandy Bridge Bandwidth & Cinebench
4 - The Best Memory for Sandy Bridge Real-World Performance
5 - The Best Memory for Sandy Bridge Real-World Performance 2
6 - The Best Memory for Sandy Bridge Gaming
7 - LGA1155 Memory Performance Test Setup
8 - LGA115 Memory Bandwidth and Cinebench Performance
9 - LGA1155 Memory Real World Performance
10 - LGA1155 Memory Gaming Performance
11 - Sandy Bridge Memory: 4GB (2 DIMM) vs 16GB (4 DIMM)
12 - Sandy Bridge Memory Performance Analysis and Conclusion
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