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There is no question that the seriously overclocked D 930 system won the raw read bandwidth benchmark. The AM2 was 2.9% slower... what is impressive is that the AM2 was running the memory 6.1% slower than the 930, so it was definitely making more efficient use of the DDR2 than the 930.

Mind you, both were far from using the potential bandwidth of the memory - theoretically DDR2-800 has up to 12.8 GB of read bandwidth, and both processors were running the memory at greater than DDR2 speeds.

The stock AM2 was a healthy 30.5% faster for read bandwith than the stock FX-60 with DDR memory - so we have positive proof that DDR2 can indeed be significantly faster!

Rightmark Write

Well, I did not anticipate this result.

The overclocked AM2 badly beat the comparison chips when it came to write bandwidth, and the stock 5000+ took second place. It was not even close.

The stock AM2 was 17.8% faster at writes than the stock FX-60, and a whopping 69.1% faster than the stock D 930. NOT EVEN CLOSE.

Now I could give percentage figures for the overclocked AM2, but I am not the type to rub salt into DDR's wounds.