Does Memory Performance Bottleneck Your Games?

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Not all games are held back by graphics performance. Some seem to be CPU-limited. However, we've even seen benchmark results that appeared to be affected by memory bandwidth. Today we compare quad-channel, dual-channel, and low-latency configurations.

Skyrim, Frame By Frame

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim shows us frame times under 50 ms until we reach 5760x1080, where all memory configurations become equally problematic.

Although average performance drops when we enable Skyrim's Ultra detail level, frame times also even out as well. We see only one disqualifying frame per configuration, and we could probably live with it.

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.