Upgrade or replace ram?

[LucasioG]

I currently have the hyperx fury black 2x4gb 2133mhz in my system (3000mhz oc) should i upgrade with 8 or 16 or should i replace those with 2x8gb 3000+mhz?

i currently have ryzen so ram speeds matter quite a bit for me. I am editing videos and playing games at 4k primarily.

Help would be appreciated! :) 

[Guest]

If you are editing videos I would go with replacing them with 2x8gb 3200mhz.

[Mira Yurizaki]

If you have unused slots, add to what you have already. The sweet spot for Ryzen from what I recall is DDR4-3200, so being at DDR4-3000 won't be an appreciable performance loss.

[LucasioG]

Just now, Netivity said:

If you are editing videos I would go with replacing them with 2x8gb 3200mhz.

Isn’t the higher capacity better for editing? Or does ram speed and timings make that much of a difference compared to capacity?

[LucasioG]

1 minute ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

If you have unused slots, add to what you have already. The sweet spot for Ryzen from what I recall is DDR4-3200, so being at DDR4-3000 won't be an appreciable performance loss.

So it wont greatly impact performance when editing or playing games when using mismatched sticks?

[Guest]

1 minute ago, LucasioG said:

Isn’t the higher capacity better for editing? Or does ram speed and timings make that much of a difference compared to capacity?

Spoiler

There is a slight improvement.

[Mira Yurizaki]

8 minutes ago, LucasioG said:

So it wont greatly impact performance when editing or playing games when using mismatched sticks?

No. There's no benefit to matching capacity for both dual-channel banks.

[LucasioG]

1 minute ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

No. There's no benefit to matching capacity for both dual-channel banks.

Thank you very much! Now i know what to buy