DDR4 Memory Speed Tests With The Core i7 6800K On Ubuntu Linux

Written by Michael Larabel in Memory on 29 September 2016 at 12:00 AM EDT. Page 3 of 3. 11 Comments.
Core i7 6800K DDR4 Memory Speed Linux Test

With HPC Challenge's EP-STREAM Triad test, the performance scales up to DDR4-2400 but after that point didn't end up being any faster for this popular high-performance computing benchmark.

Core i7 6800K DDR4 Memory Speed Linux Test

The HPC random ring bandwidth was in a similar case with not getting much faster after DDR4-2400MHz.

That's it for these reference benchmarks. If you want to see how your own Linux system(s) compare to the results in this article, simply install the Phoronix Test Suite and run phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1609276-LO-MEMORYTES08.

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