The Best Memory for Sandy Bridge

Written by Richard Swinburne

January 11, 2011 | 11:31

Tags: #1333mhz #1600mhz #1866mhz #2133mhz #2500k #2600k #cl7 #cl8 #cl9 #compare #core #ddr3 #frequency #i5 #i7 #lga1155 #lga1156 #lga1366 #motherboard #p67 #performance #result #sandy-bridge #scaling

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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

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Sisoft Sandra Memory Bandwidth

Sisoft Sandra 2011. Average unbuffered Memory Benchmark

  • 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
    • 16985
    • 17301
    • 17542
    • 20467
    • 20611
    • 20935
    • 23725
    • 23743
    • 24278
    • 25969
    • 26150
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MB/sec, Higher Is Better
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Sisoft Sandra Memory Latency

Sisoft Sandra 2011. Latency Benchmark

  • 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
    • 76.3
    • 72.7
    • 69.5
    • 68.2
    • 65.4
    • 61.7
    • 62.1
    • 60.5
    • 58.2
    • 58.8
    • 58.3
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Cinebench R10 64-bit

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Cinebench R10

xCPU, 64-bit

  • 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
    • 20237
    • 20149
    • 19935
    • 20178
    • 19997
    • 20292
    • 19861
    • 20050
    • 19804
    • 20085
    • 20073
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  • Points, Higher Is Better

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