Review: Corsair vs. Kingston Intel Core i7 LGA1156 memory round-up

by Tarinder Sandhu on 9 December 2009, 09:31 3.75

Tags: Kingston, Corsair

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Bandwidth, latency, and HEXUS.PiFast

Sisoft Sandra 2009 SP4 (15.124) - float buffered
Kingston HyperX 2133 C8 4GBCorsair DOMINATOR GT 1600 C8 8GBKingston HyperX 1600 C8 4GB
26.8120.3620.51

ScienceMark 2 memory latency
Kingston HyperX 2133 C8 4GBCorsair DOMINATOR GT 1600 C8 8GBKingston HyperX 1600 C8 4GB
23.2127.4127.1

ScienceMark memory bandwidth
Kingston HyperX 2133 C8 4GBCorsair DOMINATOR GT 1600 C8 8GBKingston HyperX 1600 C8 4GB
17961.316467.916148.9

The 2,133MHz-rated Kingston pack does better in the synthetic benchmarks, as expected, but there's no real difference between the 4GB and 8GB DDR3-1,600MHz kits here.

HEXUS.PiFast - calculation to 10m places
Kingston HyperX 2133 C8 4GBCorsair DOMINATOR GT 1600 C8 8GBKingston HyperX 1600 C8 4GB
27.0627.1927.17

The single-instance running of HEXUS.PiFast shows that number-crunching performance is practically identical for all three kits.