Haswell And Richland Memory Scaling: Picking A 16 GB DDR3 Kit
Graphics workloads love fast memory. But how much difference can a desktop-oriented kit have on gaming performance with Intel's HD Graphics 4600 or AMD's Radeon HD 8670D? We test six 16 GB kits, two all the way up to DDR3-2400 to find out.
Results: Far Cry 3
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Far Cry 3 offers great visuals, and we’d hate to run it at anything less than the Medium quality preset and 720p. Fortunately, the AMD platform pulls through smoothly. Even uncharted DDR3-1600 CAS 11 reaches 36 FPS.
Extra memory bandwidth offers little help to Intel’s more modest integrated GPU, with the game stuck at roughly 30 FPS.
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