Haswell And Richland Memory Scaling: Picking A 16 GB DDR3 Kit

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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: Sandra Bandwidth

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Sandra's Memory Bandwidth module assuages concerns about the AMD platform’s instability at DDR3-2400, showing similar performance at DDR3-2133 via reduced latencies.

The bandwidth numbers reported by Sandra actually drop when moving from DDR3-2133 to DDR3-2400 on the Intel platform.

Thomas Soderstrom
Thomas Soderstrom
Thomas Soderstrom is a Senior Staff Editor at Tom's Hardware US. He tests and reviews cases, cooling, memory and motherboards.