Kingston HyperX 4GB DDR3-2133 RAM Kit

Benchmarks

We used benchmarks to test the performance of the component in our particular setup. It is important to note that benchmark results may vary due to the variability of system setups.  This Kingston HyperX kit is designed specifically with the new Intel 600 series chip sets, namely the H67 & P67 sporting the new Sandy Bridge CPUs. Our test setup was built with this purpose in mind and therefore the benchmarks should reveal a relatively reliable set of results based on a system optimized for this memory kit. The first benchmark in our arsenal is the AIDA64 Extreme test suite, specifically the AIDA64 Cache & Memory Benchmark.

AIDA64 Cache & Memory Benchmark

This benchmark tests the maximum achievable read, write, and copy bandwidths along with the latency of the memory modules.  To test the memory bandwidth, or the bit rate speed, the  code behind this benchmark method is written in Assembly and it is extremely optimized for every popular AMD and Intel processor core variants by utilizing the appropriate x86, MMX, 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2 or SSE4.1 instruction set extension. Basically the benchmarks are written specifically to provide the most direct test of the memory bandwidth.  The benchmark reads a 16 MB sized, 1 MB aligned data buffer from system memory into the CPU.  During the read/write assessments memory is read/written in a forward direction, continuously without breaks.  The copy assessment copies a 8 MB sized, 1 MB aligned data buffer into another 8 MB sized, 1 MB aligned data buffer through the CPU, again in a forward direction continuously without breaks. This is the best case scenario for a read, write, or copy memory operation and will yield the maximum bandwidth test result. The latency benchmark measures the typical delay when the CPU reads data from system memory, the lower the latency the more responsive the memory, the better. As I stated earlier the many variables between system setups is hard to compensate for when testing components in one system compared to another system.  With the benchmark written is the lowest code form available, and utilizing the platform appropriate instruction set, the benchmarks lessen the possible variability of testing.  This leads to more applicable theoretical results which should be extremely close to a wide range of real lifesetups using this memory kit. The Kingston HyperX Genesis kit rocks the benchmarks with top of the chart bandwidth results and a great low latency to boot! As I browsed the comparison results in AIDA64 I couldn’t find any other memory that ranked so high in the bandwidth results with a low latency number. The i5 2500K Sandy Bridge CPU and this Kingston HyperX Genesis kit are a fantastic match, they complement each other and provide peak performance all round.

Next up lets see how this ram kit fairs in the PerformanceTest benchmark…

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