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Everest Ultimate Edition Memory Performance

The Everest Ultimate Edition benchmark suite is similar to SiSoft SANDRA, as it provides both system diagnostic and informational programs, while also incorporating various memory and CPU benchmarks. As these utilize a different process than SANDRA, this could give us another peek at the true memory performance of these new processors. We have tested each of the CPUs and platforms under the Everest Memory Read, Write, Copy and Latency benchmarks.

First up is the Memory Read benchmark, which shows the entire Phenom II class with very similar benchmark scores, all in the 7500-8000 range. This places the new Phenom II X3 720 and X4 810 on par with the mainstream Core 2 Quad Q9400 and Q9450 processors, while the Core i7-920 demonstrates once again that it's on a whole different performance plane.

The Everest Memory Write scores follow closely to the previous benchmarking, but within the same processor line, these relate more to clock speed than anything else. The AM3 core seems to have a small advantage here over the first-generation Phenom II X4 models.

The Memory Copy benchmarking shows the various Phenom II X3 and X4 models finishing ahead of the Core 2 Duo and Quad processors, while the Core i7-920 leaves them all in the dust.

The Memory Latency results are very consistent for all Phenom and Phenom II models, but the FSB speed of the Intel CPUs has a huge impact, with the FSB1333 models easily outpacing their FSB1066 counterparts.