Benchmarks: Intel Core i7 (Nehalem)
Published: 04 Nov 2008
Everest 4.60: memory performance
The memory tests show how quickly the processors communicate with their environment. Besides the pure bandwidth, what's interesting here are the access times. The fewer clock cycles it takes to access a memory cell (a measure known as latency), the faster the cell can be read. With large database applications a low latency can have a positive impact on overall performance.
Whereas AMD processors, with their integrated memory controller, could match Intel chips of the Core-2 era for memory access, and even offer advantages, things have changed with the arrival of the Nehalem architecture. These new chips, with their outstanding memory transfer performance and memory access, are clearly the top performers.
Memory performance (GB/s): longer bars are better.
Memory latency (nanoseconds): shorter bars are better.
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