AMDs certainly do not have higher bandwidth. A Nehalem or Sandy Bridge will destroy any AMD in bandwidth.
That is ridiculous, First, the Amd cpu comes with memory controller integrated into CPU to lower the cost of manfunaturing, Second, Amd CPU has be to tweaked to go higher clock frequencies to take advantage of more memory bandwidth.
You're a little out-of-date as regards Intel. The Nehalem and Sandy Bridge CPUs have integrated memory controllers, similar to what AMD has been doing for years. Synthetic benchmarks (such as Core i5 2500K and Core i7 2600K review) show that the high-end Intel CPUs have better memory performance than AMD's finest. I doubt that the real-world differences are that large.
The price/performance trade is more complex. Most of the budget gaming system guides I've seen in the past year or so use AMD CPUs.
Well, There's an interesting of AMD is going with T-RAM technology is coming soon as AMD produces the 32nm die or less size of die processor chips with newer T-RAM technology will be in use, it is really interesting in AMD development.
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You can overclock the Northbridge and use high frequency RAM all you want on an AMD system. The truth is that it simply doesn't affect memory bandwidth to any notable degree. Even Thuban, the six-core K10 model, doesn't see any real benefit from RAM above DDR3 1333. Sandy Bridge similarly sees minimal gains from anything above 1333.
Overall, yes; however, there are some apps and games that do take advantage of faster RAM. Sure, sometimes fps gains are insignificant, like 2 or 3 fps, but sometimes the fps difference is 10 or 20, which isn't insignificant at all.
You can overclock the Northbridge and use high frequency RAM all you want on an AMD system. The truth is that it simply doesn't affect memory bandwidth to any notable degree. Even Thuban, the six-core K10 model, doesn't see any real benefit from RAM above DDR3 1333. Sandy Bridge similarly sees minimal gains from anything above 1333.
Hi,
I have an oldish Acer D260 running windows 7 starter SP1 that is a little slow it seems to me...so I ran the Speccy program to see what RAM Memory I have installed and the analysis comes out with an answer that confuses me...
Under RAM...Memory...It says DDR3 ...so I take it that I have...
Hey Guy's,
Question my friend asked me today and I was unsure of. He would like to know if he bought a mother board that use's DDR3 memory can he use his current DDR2 memory Dim's. I was unsure of this because I have heard mixed storys about this.
Thanks
RitualJman
Hello all,
Think I know the answer to this...but I have the option of running my DELL using:
4 GB 1066 MHz Dual DDR3
or
8 GB 667 MHz Dual DDR2
I'm currently running the first.
Hello everyone i got a quick question for you memory pro's .
I am currently running ddr2 800mhz but my board can support higher ,would it be wise to upgrade to the higher speed ram ?
Or should i stick with planing to buy a new board and new memory all together, meaning a board that supports...
I wanted to know is 2GB of DDR3 ram faster than 4GB of ddr2 ram as i was trying to decide if it was worth going from 4GB ddr2 to 2GB of ddr3 as ithought it would still be faster even though it is 2GB less.