Performance

We are going to test G.Skill ARES memory on some most popular benchmarks like AIDA64, HyperPi 32M, Maxxmem and Cinebench 11.5. Most of these tests ( maybe except Cinebench ) are showing clear improvements on the faster memory.

AIDA 64 3.0

One of the best programs to measure memory bandwidth lately improved to multithreaded version.

ARES memory is performing pretty good in AIDA64. Even though it has more relaxed timings, it’s not much worse than the best in the comparison, TridentX 2400 CL10. I only wish to remind that these results were made on XMP settings so nothing was changed in BIOS.

MaxxMem 1.99 Preview

Maxxmem is still one of the best memory benchmarks. 1.99 Preview version is single threaded so we can compare how memory is acting in the software without multithreading support.

Also here bandwidth looks good. ARES memory maybe isn’t best in this comparison but results are nearly the same as two other DDR-2400 kits. Slightly better or worse depends from test.

HyperPi 32M

HyperPi so overclockers benchmark created to support multithreading in popular SuperPi. The same as singlethreaded SuperPi, this test also likes fast memory which is highly affecting final time.

Here it looks slightly worse than in previous tests but it’s still good. Tighter timings would for sure improve result in HyperPi.

Cinebench 11.5

Cinebench so rendering benchmark which is showing us more real-world application performance.

As we see on the graph, Cinebench is running nearly as fast on all memory kits in this comparison so hard to decide which memory is really best looking only at this test.

It doesn’t change fact that ARES kit passed all tests without any issues or performance drops. It’s faster than single sided Hynix MFR that we can find in higher clocked Team Group 2666 CL11 memory which also cost more.