OK so I just got my 27 inch iMac Retina 5K, 4 GHz. Shipped with just 8 GB of OEM RAM, and instead of paying an arm an leg for Apple's upgrade to 16 GB, went ahead and bought 2 8 GB RAM sticks from Crucial for the system.
After realizing there were 4 total slots, that I could actually keep the OEM and add my 16 GB for a total of 24 GB, thats what I did. When I opened the RAM compartment I notice they had the existing 2 4 GB OEM sticks in alternating slots (Slot 1 used, Slot 2 empty, Slot 3 used, Slot 4 empty) -- which I thought was odd... so I went ahead and moved one of them so Slot 1 and 2 are the 4 GB OEM sticks. Then in Slot 3 and 4 I put the 2 8GB Crucial sticks.
Booted the computer. Everything seems fine. Open About this Mac, says 24 GB installed. Great.
OK so i wanted to compare Geekbench results before and after the memory upgrade, so before I added the new RAM I did a test (32-bit, the free version). Of course no apps open at all.
Then after I installed the new RAM I did another Geekbench (again, no apps open).
Can someone tell me why the Geekbench scores for BOTH processor AND Memory are LOWER now?
Pre-Upgrade scores:
Single-core: 4032 / Multi-core: 15355 / Memory Performance Single-Core: 3501 / Memory Performance Multi-core: 3582 -- the memory speeds are reading between 14.1 GB/sec to 15.9 GB/sec going from Stream Copy to Stream Triad.
NOW, compare to scores AFTER memory upgrade:
Single-core: 3680 / Multi-core: 14950 / Memory Performance Single-Core: 2184 / Memory Performance Multi-core: 2141 -- the memory speeds are reading between 8.66 GB/sec to 9.66 GB/sec going from Stream Copy to Stream Triad.
Does anyone know what is going on? Yes, I've triple checked, I bought the correct and recommend RAM from Crucial for this iMac. Does the slots and the arrangement of OEM vs Crucial have something to do with it? Is the OEM not compatible with Crucial? Should I just use the Crucial and live with 16 GB like I originally expected anyways?
Any advice would be appreciated!!! Thank you!!!
After realizing there were 4 total slots, that I could actually keep the OEM and add my 16 GB for a total of 24 GB, thats what I did. When I opened the RAM compartment I notice they had the existing 2 4 GB OEM sticks in alternating slots (Slot 1 used, Slot 2 empty, Slot 3 used, Slot 4 empty) -- which I thought was odd... so I went ahead and moved one of them so Slot 1 and 2 are the 4 GB OEM sticks. Then in Slot 3 and 4 I put the 2 8GB Crucial sticks.
Booted the computer. Everything seems fine. Open About this Mac, says 24 GB installed. Great.
OK so i wanted to compare Geekbench results before and after the memory upgrade, so before I added the new RAM I did a test (32-bit, the free version). Of course no apps open at all.
Then after I installed the new RAM I did another Geekbench (again, no apps open).
Can someone tell me why the Geekbench scores for BOTH processor AND Memory are LOWER now?
Pre-Upgrade scores:
Single-core: 4032 / Multi-core: 15355 / Memory Performance Single-Core: 3501 / Memory Performance Multi-core: 3582 -- the memory speeds are reading between 14.1 GB/sec to 15.9 GB/sec going from Stream Copy to Stream Triad.
NOW, compare to scores AFTER memory upgrade:
Single-core: 3680 / Multi-core: 14950 / Memory Performance Single-Core: 2184 / Memory Performance Multi-core: 2141 -- the memory speeds are reading between 8.66 GB/sec to 9.66 GB/sec going from Stream Copy to Stream Triad.
Does anyone know what is going on? Yes, I've triple checked, I bought the correct and recommend RAM from Crucial for this iMac. Does the slots and the arrangement of OEM vs Crucial have something to do with it? Is the OEM not compatible with Crucial? Should I just use the Crucial and live with 16 GB like I originally expected anyways?
Any advice would be appreciated!!! Thank you!!!
