G.Skill RipjawsX 4GB DDR3-2133mhz Review @ £50 inc vat

1. Introduction2. G.Skill Ripjaws 4GB DDR3-2133mhz3. Testing Methodology and Setup4. KitGuru Photoshop Benchmark5. AIDA 646. SiSoft Sandra7. 3D Studio Max 20118. MaxxMem 29. Closing Thoughts10. View All Pages

This version of the script has been thoroughly tested on Adobe Photoshop CS5 and CS4 and is compatible with Photoshop 7. It is important to document however that different versions of Photoshop give different end results. Adobe have been fine tuning the program over the years and enhancing specific filters and algorithms for better performance (some filters were rewritten during the CS2 time period). This means ultimately that comparing times with users running other versions of Photoshop is not going to give consistent results.

All results were gained from Adobe Photoshop CS5 64bit exe on Windows 7 64 bit ultimate and are marked in seconds. Lower times are better.

KitGuru PS Bench 1(4)	Standard 1333mhz 9-9-9-24	Standard 1600 mhz 9-9-9-24	G.Skill 2133mhz 9-11-9-28
1. Texturiser (1)	1.8	1.7	1.7
2. CMYK	1.9	1.9	1.9
3. RGB	1.8	1.9	1.8
4. Ink outlines	27.1	27.0	26.8
5. Dust & Stratches	2.9	2.7	2.7
6. Watercolor	25.6	25.4	25.0
7. Texturiser (2)	1.8	1.7	1.7
8. Stained Glass	18.9	18.8	18.3
9. Mosiac Tiles	12.3	12.1	12.0
10. Extrude	154.2	153.7	153.2
11. Rough Pastels	10.8	10.7	10.6
12. Smart Blur	88.2	88.3	87.9
13. Underpainting	31.4	31.3	31.0
14. Mosiac Tiles	11.8	11.7	11.4
15. Spherize	2.2	2.2	2.2
16. Palette Knife	18.7	18.6	18.3
17. Sponge	36.5	36.5	36.2
18. Smudge Stick	11.3	11.3	11.2
Total:	459.2	457.5	453.9

Memory bandwidth has a reasonable impact on Photoshop CS5 performance, although the differences would be hard to see under real world circumstances. Still a saving of around 5 seconds when moving from standard 1333mhz to 2133mhz RipjawsX branded memory, is a decent time saving.

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