Great comparison for all those looking to buy 2GB kits.
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Have you ever wondered which 2GB kit would perform better in your setup? Or how much difference there is between them? This short write-up is an attempt to give one an idea how Infineon CE-5 based 2GB set stacks up against it counterpart built with Samsung UCCC.
I "locked" my Opteron @ 3200MHz and tested each set of memory (CE-5 and UCCC) at it's max possible frequency that particular divider allows - div183 for UCCC @ 291MHz 7-4-4-3.0-1T and div166 for CE-5 @ 267 5-3-3-3.0-1T.
I put as much effort as I could to run each type of memory "as tight" as I could. I decided to limit my test to CAS3.0 on CE-5 as well as TRCD=4 on UCCC only. Both kits have somewhat above average OC potential.
Tests were run one at a time, screenshots taken, then PC was rebooted and next test was performed.
Setup:
AMD Opteron 146 @3200MHz
DFI LP Ultra-D R.A02, BIOS 11/14 Official
NForce4 drivers 6.70, USB, Network and Audio enabled.
EVGA 7800GTX 256MB KO @ 500+40/1400 (low-power mode disabled thru BIOS-mod)
Forceware 84.21, default driver settings (Quality)
Windows XP SP2 fresh install, not tweaked
2GB Corsair TWINX2048-4400PRO (Infineon CE-5)
2GB G.Skill F1-4000USU2-2GBHZ (Samsung UCCC)
There you are, here are the results - 1st column for CE-5 and 2nd for UCCC...
3D Benchmarks
3DMark2001 ------> 35371 ------- 35055
3DMark03 ---------> 19687 ------- 19679
3DMark05 ---------> 9173 --------- 9206
3DMark06 ---------> 4681 --------- 4711
Aquamark3 -------> 105792 ------ 105123
X³: Reunion ------> 77.92 --------- 78.05
Productivity/Pi/Synthetic Benchmarks
PCMark04 --------> 6428 ---------- 6396
PCMark05 --------> 5098 ---------- 5054
SuperPi 32M -----> 22:57 --------- 23:08*
PiFast 10M -------> 37.55 --------- 37.72
WinRAR ----------> 787 ------------ 773
Sandra Band. ---> 7902/7814 --- 8187/8133
Everest Lat. -----> 38.8 ----------- 38.4
SM2.0 L1 Band. -> 36848.43 ---- 36824.17
SM2.0 L2 Band. -> 11678.01 ---- 11609.84
SM2.0 Mem Band. -> 7482.55 -- 7918.02
Game Benchmarks at 1600x1200
DOOM 3 ----------> 107.0 --------- 106.8
FarCry ------------> 134.47 ------- 133.10
F.E.A.R -----------> 66 ------------- 65
Quake 4 ----------> 112.3 -------- 112.5
Game Benchmarks at 1024x768 - comming soon!
I just thought this could be of use for some. I'm gonna leave conclusions to you guys...
Questions, comments or requests welcomed
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