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.

Now all our benchmarks are based on a set memory frequency at JEDEC timings as that is our defined baseline / protocol for all reviews. But with that sweet Blade memory in the system, I could not resist. Check that out as we take her up to 20666 MB/sec.

Total Boner! (sorry).

Memory Write test

The same can be said for the memory write tests. Of course Intel dominates here and considering we used 1333 JEDEC timed memory on both platforms, triple channel performance on Nehalem is just frighteningly good really.

But once we configure our bios for 2133 MHz... we reach a write performance of nearly 17000 MB/sec... *drool*