Performance
Testing stage so how our today’s review memory is performing in popular benchmarks. As usual we will use single and multithreading tests but also some more real-world performance benchmarks.
AIDA64 Cache and Memory Benchmark
AIDA64 Cache and Memory benchmark is one of the most popular memory benchmarks. We are focusing here on multithreaded memory bandwidth.
Kingston’s new memory series isn’t performing good in this test. One of the main reasons is lower memory clock and Intel Haswell platform just loves higher clocked memory.
MaxxMem Preview v1.99
MaxxMem Preview is single threaded memory benchmark so overall bandwidth is lower. It doesn’t change fact that HyperX Na’Vi Ed. is also worst. I can understand write and copy transfers as this is DDR3-1600 memory but read bandwidth looks really bad.
HyperPi 32M
Memory bandwidth differences between each memory kit we can also see in HyperPi. It’s multithreaded test and just loves fast memory so it’s also one of the best benchmarks to compare memory performance.
The same as in previous tests, DDR3-1600 HyperX memory is presenting pretty bad achieving time over 2 minutes worse than the second on the list 1866 Crucial kit.
Cinebench 11.5
As we see on the above graph, even in rendering test which bases mainly on the processor power, 1600 Na’Vi memory has worst results. I was running this test couple of times and each time result was the same.
It’s not hard to notice that memory bandwidth tests look bad comparing to all the other memory kits on the list. I was really amazed how previously reviewed DDR3-2400 Kingston kits performed. Even though they’re running at more relaxed timings than the competition, performance was really high. Here we receive memory at standard timings and 800MHz ( DDR3-1600 ) clock which is performing as any other average DDR3-1600 memory kit.
The main reason of low performance can be single-sided module design. Because of high density of new IC ( integrated circuit ), available memory kits are now based on single-sided 4GB sticks or double sided 8GB sticks. Most double sided modules are performing much better so I assume that Kingston HyperX Genesis Na’Vi Edition 2x 8GB kit will offer much higher performance than 2x 4GB.
