Solved WEI - DDR2 vs DDR3

[ikyuaokii]

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You're a little out-of-date as regards Intel.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.

 

[Britton30]

Just out of interest, which benchmark programs do people recommend?

Try out CPU-Z it's free and will also give your RAM info.
There is also a GPU-Z for graphics card info.

 

[lehnerus2000]

Thanks Britton30

Just out of interest, which benchmark programs do people recommend?

Try out CPU-Z it's free and will also give your RAM info.
There is also a GPU-Z for graphics card info.

Thanks for those links Britton30.

 

[Fumz]

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.

 

[lehnerus2000]

Try out CPU-Z it's free and will also give your RAM info.
There is also a GPU-Z for graphics card info.

Actually I have several programs like CPU-Z:

• CPUID HWMonitor
• Hardwaremania BlackBox
• Windows System Information Tool

I think that HWMonitor or BlackBox has a benchmark tool (goes to check ...).

 

[essenbe]

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.

Sandy Bridge memory assessment test