Exceleram DDR3 PC3-12800 1600MHz 4GB Memory Review

Everest – Memory Read

This benchmark measures the maximum achiveable memory read bandwidth. The code behind this benchmark method is written in Assembly and it is extremely optimized for every popular AMD and Intel processor core variants by utilizing the appropriate x86, MMX, 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2 or SSE4.1 instruction set extension. The benchmark reads a 16 MB sized, 1 MB aligned data buffer from system memory into the CPU. Memory is read in forward direction, continuously without breaks.

In order to avoid concurrent threads competing over system memory bandwidth, Memory Read benchmark utilizes only one processor core and one thread.

In the memory read tests, we got clear distinctive results over some faster rated memory such as the Kingston HyperX DDR3 1800MHz memory but as we expected, falling behind the triple channel Patriot Viper Series.

Overclocked Results:

By the fairly small overclock that we got without upping any voltages or loosening off any timings, we were still able to get a nice 400MB/s increase in our memory read tests which would still leave it as the second fastest memory kit that we’ve looked at.