Benchmarks
Hardware
| Processor |
AMD Athlon XP 2800+ |
| Motherboard |
Leadtek K7NCR18-D Pro II |
| HDD |
Maxtor 6Y080P0 |
| Video Card | Chaintech Apogee FX-71 GeForce FX 5600 Ultra |
Software
Microsoft Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 2 nVidia Unified Driver 4.24 nVidia ForceWare 61.77
Operating System
Chipset Drivers
Video Card Drivers
Multimedia
The Ballistix memory will be tested against a pair of Corsair Value Select PC3200 RAM.
PCMark
|
RAM |
PCMark04 Memory Score |
|
Ballistix |
2317.0 |
|
Corsair |
2199.0 |
PCMark scores show a marked difference between the two modules. There is a 5% difference between the Ballistix RAM and the Corsair one. The difference in performance is most likely do to the more aggressive memory timings supported by the Ballistix memory module.
Sisoft Sandra
Cache & Memory Benchmark
|
Float SSE Cache/Memory Results |
Ballistix |
Corsair |
| 2kB |
18457 MB/s |
18429 MB/s |
| 4kB |
19456 MB/s |
19482 MB/s |
| 8kB |
20009 MB/s |
20019 MB/s |
| 16kB |
16829 MB/s |
16851 MB/s |
| 32kB |
13981 MB/s |
13992 MB/s |
| 64kB |
13042 MB/s |
13056 MB/s |
| 128kB |
8595 MB/s |
8610 MB/s |
| 256kB |
7070 MB/s |
7088 MB/s |
| 512kB |
1452 MB/s |
1429 MB/s |
| 1MB |
1398 MB/s |
1373 MB/s |
| 4MB |
1388 MB/s |
1366 MB/s |
| 16MB |
1392 MB/s |
1366 MB/s |
| 64MB |
1391 MB/s |
1368 Mb/s |
| 256MB |
1388 MB/s |
1367 MB/s |
Interesting to see here that the Ballistix RAM is slightly slower in the smaller file tests, but much faster in the higher size tests.
Bandwidth Benchmarks
| Int Buffered aEMMX/aSSE (Integer STREAM) Results |
Ballistix |
Corsair |
| Assignment |
2530 MB/s |
2504 MB/s |
| Scaling |
2528 MB/s |
2502 MB/s |
| Addition |
2506 MB/s |
2469 MB/s |
| Triad |
2506 MB/s |
2476 MB/s |
| Badwidth Efficiency |
94% |
93% |
| Float Buffered aEMMX/aSSE (Float STREAM) Results |
Ballistix |
Corsair |
| Assignment |
2530 MB/s |
2501 MB/s |
| Scaling |
2413 MB/s |
2369 MB/s |
| Addition |
2328 MB/s |
2280 MB/s |
| Triad |
2297 MB/s |
2253 MB/s |
| Badwidth Efficiency |
90% |
88% |
Ballistix RAM seems more efficient iin these tests. Efficiency is key to performance, and gives you better bang for your buck.
Unreal Tournament 2004
The Unreal Tournament 2004 benchmark was run with 12 bots on AS-Fallen City at low resolution for the Performance Benchmark. For the Quality Benchmark, it was run at high resolution. The average FPS was taken.
Performance
|
Resolution |
Ballistix |
Corsair |
|
640x480 |
72.789665 |
61.771568 |
|
800x600 |
71.729523 |
60.647648 |
|
1024x768 |
72.152611 |
61.771568 |
Quality
|
Resolution |
Ballistix |
Corsair |
|
640x480 |
53.705734 |
45.056591 |
|
800x600 |
50.385639 |
42.191853 |
|
1024x768 |
44.468586 |
37.181412 |
Again we see that the Ballistix RAM takes the advantage, but ever so slightly.
