Keeping the metrics in the table as up-to-date as possible involves retesting every memory kit. The discrepancy is because we strive to provide results on the most recent and relevant Intel and AMD platforms.

The score on our hierarchy may differ slightly from the geometric mean in the individual review. Then, we ranked the memory kits for each capacity from best to worst for both Intel and AMD systems. Our tests include Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Lightroom, Cinebench R23, Corona benchmark, 7-Zip compression and decompression, Handbrake x264 and x265 conversion, LuxMark, and Y-Cruncher.įor simplicity, we've separated the memory kits into different categories according to their densities. The score results originate from the geometric mean from our RAM benchmark suite consisting of scripted and real-world tests. However, the geometric means don't always tell the whole story: If you're looking for performance in a specific workload or gaming, we recommend looking at the full review of the memory kit you have in mind. Furthermore, we suspect many of you would value performance over anything else. We've got those details in the individual RAM reviews.

We use a geometric mean of our memory benchmarking results to keep the ranking objective and discard the intangibles, like aesthetics and overclocking headroom. Our RAM benchmark hierarchy aims to provide a simple database that ranks the best memory kits based on pure performance. Companies regularly release new memory kits with different speeds, timings, capacities, and ranks, making sifting through seemingly endless models surprisingly time-consuming.

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