More Tests

Super Pi

Super Pis is a single-threaded benchmark which can show the differences in IPC between CPU platforms. Here is the tests, and we choose 1 million digits. First up is Super Pi on the Core i7-3770K at 4.2GHz with the Kingston Predator RAM at the Haswell 1600MHz default. Now here are the results with the XMP Profile correctly set to 2800MHz at the same settings: No real differences although the platform with the Kingston HyperX Predator RAM at the faster 2800MHz had some quicker runs. Please continue on to Fritz Chess Bench.

Fritz Chess Bench

Fritz Chess Benchmark is found within the game’s program files and basically it crunches numbers to test your processor’s speed. Deep Fritz takes advantage of massive calculations and multi-threaded performance to work any CPU fully. It loads all threads 100% and will drive your CPU temperatures way up. We are using version 12 which is the same version we used for testing Core i7-920.

First up, the Predator RAM is clocked to 1600MHz:

Now we run the Fritz benchmark on Haswell’s i7-4770K at 4.2GHz. Besides showing relative speed when compared to a P3 1.0GHz CPU, it also shows the nodes completed. The faster your CPU, the more nodes completed.

Here in this multi-threaded benchmark, we see that using Predator RAM at 2800MHz increased the kilo nodes per second from 15908 to 16478.

CustomPC Benchmark

CustomPC benchmark use widely available open-source applications to carry out the tasks that most of us perform on a regular basis. There are three tests, each of which measure different aspects of a PC’s performance. These tests themselves are not synthetic benchmarks but instead they use real world image, video and multi-tasking tasks to test the performance of your computer. The tests are:

• GIMP Image Editing
• H.264 Video Encoding
• Multi-tasking

First these tests are run with the Kingston Predator RAM clocked to 1600MHz .

Now we bench again with the RAM clocked to 2800MHz.

Here are the results of Custom PC benchmarking expressed as a chart (lower is faster/better):

2800MHz makes a difference over using 1600MHz RAM on the Socket 1150 platform in this real world benchmark. We see a speed up of five seconds each with image editing and with video encoding, but 16 seconds when it involves multi-tasking.

CINEBENCH

CINEBENCH is based on MAXON’s professional 3D content creation suite, CINEMA 4D. This latest R15.0 version of CINEBENCH can test up to 64 processor threads accurately and automatically. We are testing the older version first which is the same test we gave Bloomfield, and then testing with the newest version. v11.5 First up we bench with the RAM at the default 1600MHz: Next, at 2800MHz at the same settings. 2800MHz is faster than using the RAM at its default 1600MHz. Now we test with the latest benchmark R15 First at 1600MHz: Next at 2800MHz at the same settings. Here is the older 11.5 benchmark results chart: Here are the latest R 15 Cinebench benchmark results.Running the RAM at 2800MHz over running at 1600MHz is faster in both tests.

X264

We are using the latest version, V5.0. Basically this test encodes a HD video clip into a x264 video file. The first pass is very quick and the second one is much slower and much more demanding of a task as it does the actual encoding. This benchmark is heavily mult-threaded.

First up is the Kingston Predator RAM clocked at 1600MHz:   Average first pass at 1600MHz is 79.34 fps while the second pass is 18.21 fps. And now at 2800MHz. Average first pass for 2800MHz is 83.48 fps while the second pass is 18.53 fps.

Here is the chart: 

As we can see, both passes are quicker at the faster RAM clocks.   The next series of tests is going to focus on the SSD to see if there is a difference using faster premium RAM over using it at stock speeds.

Crystal Disk Mark

CrystalDiskMark is a HDD benchmark utility for your hard drive that enables you to measure sequential and random read/write speeds. Here are some key features of “CrystalDiskMark”:

• Measure sequential reads/writes speed
• Measure random 512KB, 4KB, 4KB (Queue Depth=32) reads/writes speed

First up is at 1600MHzNow at 2800MHz: The faster RAM speeds do make a difference.

HD Tune

HD Tune is a hard disk utility which has the following functions:

• Benchmark measures the performance of:
  • Transfer Rate
  • Access Time
  • CPU Usage
  • Burst Rate
  • Random Access test
  • Write benchmark
• Hard Disk information which includes partition information, supported features, firmware version, serial number, disk capacity, buffer size, transfer mode
• Hard Disk Health
  • S.M.A.R.T. Information (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology)
  • Power On Time
• Error scan
• Temperature display

The 1600MHz run is up first. Next at 2800MHz: The burst rate is a little higher with the faster RAM although the rest of the tests are inconclusive.

AS SSD

AS SSD is especially designed for Solid State Drives (SSD). The tool contains synthetic and practice tests. The synthetic tests determine the sequential and random read and write performance of the SSD without use of the operating system caches. In Seq-test the program measures how long it takes to read and write a 1 GB file.

In the 4K test, read and write performance for random 4K blocks are determined. The 4K-64-thrd test are similar to the 4K procedure except that the read and write operations on 64 threads are distributed as in the usual start of a program. In the copying test, two large ISO file folders are created, programs with many small files, and a games folder with small and large files. These three folders are copied by the OS copy command with the cache turned on.

The practice tests show performance with simultaneous read and write operations AS SSD gives an overall “score” after it runs the benchmarks. These scores and comparisons are summed up in the performance summary charts. First up, Kingston Predator RAM at 1600MHz: Now at 2800MHz: 606 score for 1600MHz and 670 score for 2800MHz.

ATTO

ATTO is a disk benchmark. The ATTO Disk Benchmark measures a storage system;s performance with various transfer sizes and test lengths for reads and writes. Options are available to customize the tests, including queue depth, overlapped I/O and even a comparison mode.

First up is 1600MHz. Now at 2800MHz: Very similar results.

HD Tach

HD Tach is a low level hardware benchmark for random access read/write storage devices including SSDs and HDDs. HD Tach uses custom device drivers and low level Windows interfaces to determine the physical performance of the device. It is no longer supported and needs to be run in compatibility mode for Windows 7.

Here is the Long Bench at 1600MHz:

Now we repeat the same test at 2800MHz with identical settings. 306 MB/s average read for 1600MHz and 312.5 MB/s for 2800MHz.

Now we move on to game-related benchmarks and games. Next up are the synthetics.

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