Samsung's PC2700 Memory

Author : Martyn Date : 3rd June

...Product	DDR 333 / PC2700
...Manufacturer	Samsung
...Supplier	Samsung
...Price	TBC

 

 

Part Five: Sandra's Memory Bandwidth Benchmark

Test were run at 166 Memory and 133 to gauge the quality of both sticks as measured by this excellent benchmark.

Firstly the more standard 133 (266 DDR effective) :

Memory Brand	Ram Int Buffered [a]E MMX/ a SSE	Ram Float Buffered [a]EMMX /a SSE
Crucial PC2700 @ PC2100	2021 MB/s	1951 MB/s
Samsung PC2700 @ PC2100	2006 MB/s	1936 MB/s

Crucial typical high quality is on display again here. Just beating the Samsung memory in Sandra's memory benchmark. Is this an indication of things to come?

...and at 166 (333 DDR effective)

Memory Brand	Ram Int Buffered [a]E MMX/ a SSE	Ram Float Buffered [a]EMMX /a SSE
Crucial PC2700 @ PC2100	2041 MB/s	1957 MB/s
Samsung PC2700 @ PC2100	2032 MB/s	1949 MB/s

Firstly we can see the slight advantage of the Crucial memory in this benchmark but interestingly enough the Samsung seems to have responded to the frequency change slightly better than Crucial. We can also note the relatively uninspiring gain form the KT333 166 mem option. The extra frequency on the memory seems to improve performance very slightly indeed but it's rather insignificant without a synchronous bus to handle the data transfer. It's very close in both benchmarks so let's take a look at the gaming based benchmarks.

Part Six: Quake 3 Arena v1.1

(1024 x 768 32 bit Settings - Highest Detail Levels)

Memory Brand	Frames Per/s
Crucial PC2700	206.1
Samsung PC2700	206.9

A very close result to start our gaming benchmarks, point eight of a frame is all that separates the two brands.

Part Seven: 3DMark 2001 SE

(1024 x 768 Default 32 bit Settings)

Memory Brand	'3D Marks'
Crucial PC2700	10963
Samsung PC2700	10971

It seems purely theoretical performance does not always translate to actual performance. The Samsung just nudges ahead under 3DMark, however the difference is only point five of a frame on most gaming based tests.

Part Eight: Jedi Knight II Jedi Outcast v1.03

(1024 x 768 32bit Highest Detail)

Memory Brand	Frames Per/s
Crucial PC2700	119.1
Samsung PC2700	120.5

Edging out Crucial's memory by just over a second is another close but significant result. The benchmark was run three times with the average score displayed above thus reducing the natural differentiation between two runs. In 'real world testing' just over one frame is very little, to the hardened gamer though it's a different story!

Our two combatants seems very evenly matched in terms of performance but will one prove more desirable than the other when we introduce overclocking into the equation?

Page Four: Overclocking >>>

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