Can you get me a link to a good hardware review that show these real
world performance improvements that you're talking about? As I said,
I've been reading hardware reviews for many years on this subject and
see no hard evidence to back what you're saying. Synthetic benchmarks
always show an improvement in bandwidth but when you use practical
software applications and do comparisons there is minimal if any
difference in speed. Certainly nothing that a human beings perception
could detect.
James Boswell wrote:
On 2 Jun 2009, at 01:00, Stan Zaske wrote:
SDRAM--->DDR--->DDR2--->DDR3=more bandwidth, more latency, lower
voltage and lower heat. After a decade and dozens if not hundreds of
hardware reviews that show minimal to no real world performance
improvements (synthetic? Uh huh!) DDR3 is another solution to a
problem that doesn't exist. Only when speeds get well above DDR3 2500
will there be significant and noticeable speed improvement.
DDR3-1600 is a very significant improvement over DDR2-800... the issue
is that Core 2's are hooked up to memory controllers the other side of
the an FSB, the IMC in the i7 delivers... heroic bandwidth from DDR3
The problem does exist, but the memory always always ALWAYS comes
before its needed, in this case it came in the middle of the Core 2
generation, when it wasn't needed or useful until i7
One exception to this is DDR memory coming with the Athlon (huge
performance kick)
-JB
