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Date: April 3rd, 2008
Article by: Nathan Glentworth (Owner / Head Editor)
Product was submitted by: Crucial
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BENCHMARKING (cont'd)

3DMARK 2006 PROFESSIONAL

As you can see in the above results, 3DMark2006 results are more reliant on the performance of the CPU than they are of the memory. But an improvement, although slight was made with the memory alone overclocked.

 

CINEBENCH 10 MULTIPLE-CORE CPU BENCHMARK

Cinebench 10 is an excellent rendering benchmark to see how a processor and memory subsystem will manage a very large set photo rendering task. This updated benchmark will bring even the fastest quad-core to its knees.

 

Again, you see the same result. The memory alone doesn't yieldmuch of a result until your couple it with an increase of the processor's front side bus.

 

CINEBENCH 10 OPENGL BENCHMARK

Along with its excellent processor benchmark, the suite now includes a good basic OpenGL benchmark. How does the memory overclock affect the OpenGL rendering?

Much like the photo rendering benchmark, it seems that more DDR2 systems will see an increase in bandwidth, but cannot properly utilize the increase.