Corsair Vengeance 8GB 1866MHz CL10 Laptop SODIMM Memory Kit Review

Sandra 2012 SP4a Memory Bandwidth

SiSoftware Sandra 2012 SP4a (build 18.47)

The Sisoft Sandra 2012 SP4a benchmark utility just came out this month and a fully supports both Windows 7 and Intel Ivy Bridge processors, so this utility is ideal for looking at memory bandwidth.

8GB DDR3 1600MHz CL11 Memory:

8GB DDR3 1866MHz CL10 Memory:

We ran Sandra several times and consistently got a score of 20.4GB/s on the aggregate memory performance with the 8GB 1600MHz CL11 memory kit that came with our ASUS N56VM 15.6-inch notebook. This is not a bad memory bandwidth test result, but more is always better! With the Corsair Vengeance 8GB 1866MHz CL10 memory kit installed we saw the aggregate bandwidth jumped up to ~24.77GB/s as you can see in the screen shot above! That is an improvement of 4.37GB/s or an additional 21.4% of memory bandwidth. Not a bad performance gain that was had by just changing out the memory kit!