Performance – MaxxMem, AIDA64, SuperPi 32M

As usual, I’ve used benchmarks that show the biggest differences between each memory kit and its settings.

MaxxMem 1.99

G.Skill ARES performance is really good even though I used XMP an profile which has command rate 2N instead of 1N for all the other memory kits tested. Overall results are close to common DDR3-2400 kits.

After overclocking we can count on performance as good if not higher than for DDR3-2666 kits. Tighter sub timings, that we can’t see here, let G.Skill ARES beat even Team Xtreem 2666 memory. Really impressive results especially for overclocking, given that I’ve used the standard voltage of 1.65V.

AIDA64 – Cache & Memory Benchmark

AIDA64 benchmark shows similar situation as MaxxMem. ARES 2133 kit has lower memory read results than 2400+ kits but all other tests are really good and not much slower than higher clocked competitiors.

Also in this case overclocked ARES kit is faster than DDR3-2666 Team Xtreem memory.

SuperPI 32M

At the end benchmark most popular among overclockers.

The situation is nearly the same as for the two other benchmarks. The ARES kit confirms its good performance with these SuperPi 32M results. The big difference between last two results in the table prove that sub timings are sometimes even more important than main timings. Results of ARES memory overclocked to DDR3-2666 mark could be compared to DDR3-2800 kits performance which is great.