Crucial Ballistix Tracer Red PC-6400 4GB

March 17, 2008 | 07:42

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Memory Performance


Everest Memory Performance Test

  • Crucial Ballistix Tracer Red 4GB PC-6400 (800MHz EPP)
  • Crucial Ballistix Tracer Red 4GB PC-6400 (1,142Mhz OC)
  • Corsair TwinX4096-6400C5DHX G (800MHz EPP)
  • Corsair TwinX4096-6400C5DHX G (1,083MHz OC)
    • 8586
    • 6082
    • 6450
    • 8725
    • 6062
    • 6686
    • 8111
    • 5919
    • 6361
    • 8571
    • 6081
    • 6602
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  • Read (MB/s)
  • Write (MB/s)
  • Copy (MB/s)

While the memory write performance remains consistent throughout, the read performance grows a few hundred MB/s for both the Crucial and Corsair. What's interesting is that the Corsair running at an overclocked 1,083MHz 5-5-5-15 virtually matches the synthetic memory performance of the Crucial at 800MHz 4-4-4-12. The synthetic copy performance is quite similar between the Crucial and Corsair and increases to a similar level respectively when overclocked.

Everest Memory Latency

  • Crucial Ballistix Tracer Red 4GB PC-6400 (800MHz EPP)
  • Crucial Ballistix Tracer Red 4GB PC-6400 (1,142MHz OC)
  • Corsair TwinX4096-6400C5DHX (800MHz SDP)
  • Corsair TwinX4096-6400C5DHX G (1,083MHz OC)
  • 60.6
  • 54.8
  • 63.8
  • 58.3
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As expected the Crucial at 4-4-4-12 has a lower latency than the Corsair at 5-5-5-18 when both are running at 800MHz, and when overclocked to the same 5-5-5-16 latency, the Crucial's faster clock means again a lower latency.

Unbuffered Memory Performance

Sisoft Sandra Unbuffered Memory Test

  • Crucial Ballistix Tracer Red 4GB PC-6400 (800MHz EPP)
  • Crucial Ballistix Tracer Red 4GB PC-6400 (1,142MHz OC)
  • Corsair TwinX4096-6400C5DHX (800MHz SDP)
  • Corsair TwinX4096-6400C5DHX G (1,083MHz OC)
  • 5814.8
  • 6196.5
  • 5687.3
  • 6136.5
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Memory Latency

Sisoft Sandra Random Memory Latency Test

  • Crucial Ballistix Tracer Red 4GB PC-6400 (800MHz EPP)
  • Crucial Ballistix Tracer Red 4GB PC-6400 (1,142MHz OC)
  • Corsair TwinX4096-6400C5DHX (800MHz SDP)
  • Corsair TwinX4096-6400C5DHX G (1,083MHz OC)
  • 78
  • 71
  • 83
  • 73
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Sisoft Sandra tells a very similar story to Everest – the overclocked Crucial gets the best results and its faster memory timings at 800MHz ekes out just a bit more performance than the Corsair.
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