I'm pretty sure it doesn't give you any real performance boost either
not like a new GPU
[QUOTE=J!NX;51235300]I'm pretty sure it doesn't give you any real performance boost either
not like a new GPU[/QUOTE]
Completely dependent on application *and* system architecture. Memory clock speed is insanely important for machines using shared memory with the gpu (see, people using intel iGPUs or amd APU's), its also fairly useful for any application that does heavy ammounts of cacheing in system memory, such as a database or a storage focused operating system.
It's also fairly helpful for minimum framerates. Which is a hell of a lot more noticeable than maximum framerates.
Oh man, and i just recently upgraded to 3600Mhz, 32GB RAM. It cost me 100$
[QUOTE=J!NX;51235300]I'm pretty sure it doesn't give you any real performance boost either
not like a new GPU[/QUOTE]
Actually GPUs skipped up spec 4 for the fact there is no noticable performance gain from 3. Its only perk was lowered power consumption.
[QUOTE=Levelog;51235556]It's also fairly helpful for minimum framerates. Which is a hell of a lot more noticeable than maximum framerates.[/QUOTE]
Actually, if you have decently fast DDR3 RAM (2400+) already DDR4 will barely make any difference.
Only compared to the more common DDR3-1600 or 1333 you will see a good increase.
The difference between DDR4 and DDR4 at different speeds is actually almost nothing because even the slowest starts DDR4 at 2133/2400MHz, going higher nets barely any significant increase in min framerates.
Of course, the comparison between 3 and 4 is a bit silly because you can't just upgrade DDR3 to DDR4, was just mentioned to demonstrate the leap.
[QUOTE=Mitsuma;51237955]Actually, if you have decently fast DDR3 RAM (2400+) already DDR4 will barely make any difference.
Only compared to the more common DDR3-1600 or 1333 you will see a good increase.
The difference between DDR4 and DDR4 at different speeds is actually almost nothing because even the slowest starts DDR4 at 2133/2400MHz, going higher nets barely any significant increase in min framerates.
Of course, the comparison between 3 and 4 is a bit silly because you can't just upgrade DDR3 to DDR4, was just mentioned to demonstrate the leap.[/QUOTE]
True, but for any Intel processor anything above 1600 is XMP anyways. And once you get up to 3000+ you start to notice a difference, and that range is a hell of a lot more affordable with DDR4 than it was with DDR3.
Considering DDR4 still has terrible CL it really isn't worth investing into it.
[QUOTE=FezianEmperor;51239564]Considering DDR4 still has terrible CL it really isn't worth investing into it.[/QUOTE]
CL is relative, not absolute. You can't compare CL from DDR3 to DDR4. Why would DDR3 ever be worth investing in since DDR2 has half the CL?
[QUOTE=Levelog;51239630]CL is relative, not absolute. You can't compare CL from DDR3 to DDR4. Why would DDR3 ever be worth investing in since DDR2 has half the CL?[/QUOTE]
Ah, got'cha. Well, I guess its' gotten standard now to get DDR4 anyways. So its' not like we can end up buying DDR3 ourselves unless we find the rare shop with it.
[QUOTE=Levelog;51235556]It's also fairly helpful for minimum framerates. Which is a hell of a lot more noticeable than maximum framerates.[/QUOTE]
A million times this. More and more procedural games directly impact frametiming heavily, and RAM is the direct bottleneck in this set up. Faster ram, less bottleneck, and it's only going to become more apparent as dx12 becomes mainstream.
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