Sandra | Everest - Synthetic Tests
Sandra - Synthetic Tests
SiSoftware's Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software. Sandra provides similar level of information to Norton SI, Quarterdeck WinProbe/Manifest, etc. The Win32 version is 32-bit and comes in both ANSI (legacy for Windows 98/Me systems) and native Unicode (Windows NT4/200X/.Net) formats. The Win64 version is 64-bit and comes in native Unicode format.
Do note that all the SANDRA benchmarks are synthetic and thus may not tally with real-life performance. The latter stands for whatever your environment is, i.e. which applications you run with what amount of data and so on. It is up to you to decide whether what Sandra measures is what you want to measure.
Below you can find the scores of Sandra starting with memory performance:
It is really difficult to understand what we present to you. Interpreting data in the way we tested and what we can show you simply is hard to comprehend, especially with all the mathematic BIOS timings and dividers. Memory tweaking and overclocking is close to science.
You'll notice the OCZ 6 GB kit memory at ranges from 800 MHz up-to blasphemy reaching level of 1800 MHz. Then to place things a little in perspective we used a set of DDR2 dual channel memory on a Phenom X4 9950, which offer great performance, but nearly is being put to a shame. In green you'll notice the memory at advertised 1600 MHz with 8:8:8:24 timings, and thereof a variation difference frequency settings tied to their fastest timings.
Everest Ultimate Edition
EVEREST offers accurate hardware information and diagnostics capabilities, including online features, memory benchmarks, hardware monitoring, and low-level hardware information. EVEREST Home Edition is optimized for Microsoft Windows XP, Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems.
With Everest we'll look at two different as we'll measure both memory read and write performance. In green again the memory at 1600 MHz with Cas 8. The command rate, I forgot to mention this, is 1 T. So when we take it up a notch at 1800 MHz, we do have to drop to CAS 10 unfortunately. But still ... that's a jaw breaking 18270 MB per second of bandwidth measured.
The results in write performance scale a little more intense. In green the 1600 MHz 8:8:8:24 timings, and in dark blue on top our memory at 1800 MHz @ 10:9:9:24. That's nearly 16GB/sec memory write performance.
If you like to get a grasp on how much data that is. Try moving around a full 4.7 GB DVD from your HD to another HD. Now this memory can do manage that over 3.3 in just one second.
