Throw some cores into the mix
DivX| DivX 6.8.3 + LAME encoding, enhanced multithreading on | ||
|---|---|---|
| Corsair DDR3-2,000 CL7 6GB 1T | Corsair DDR3-2,000 CL7 6GB 2T | Crucial Ballistix DDR3-1,600 C |
| 183 | 183.16 | 184.17 |
| DivX 6.8.3 + LAME encoding, enhanced multithreading on | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Corsair DDR3-1,866 CL9 6GB DOM | Crucial DDR3-1,333 CL9 3GB | Crucial DDR3-1,066 CL7 6GB | Crucial Ballistix DDR3-1,600 C |
| 189.03 | 189.66 | 191.04 | 188.9 |
The upper graph's scores are a little better, solely down to a slight increase in clock-speed, but additional bandwidth doesn't make a whole heap of difference.
wPrime32 1024
| wPrime multithreaded - 1024M calculation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Corsair DDR3-2,000 CL7 6GB 1T | Corsair DDR3-2,000 CL7 6GB 2T | Crucial Ballistix DDR3-1,600 C |
| 234.44 | 234.8 | 234.99 |
| wPrime multithreaded - 1024M calculation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Corsair DDR3-1,866 CL9 6GB DOM | Crucial DDR3-1,333 CL9 3GB | Crucial DDR3-1,066 CL7 6GB | Crucial Ballistix DDR3-1,600 C |
| 242 | 242.18 | 242.96 | 242 |
And that's further exemplified by the wPrime32 benchmarks, where clock-speed is far more important than memory bandwidth.