Is DDR5 Worth Additional $177 for Editing 4K ProRes 422HQ?

[Bootskii]

Is DDR5 6000MHz worth an additional $177 US (including motherboard) compared to DDR4 3600MHz? This PC will be used for gaming, streaming, and editing & color grading 4K ProRes 422HQ footage. I'll use Premiere for editing and Resolve for color. Is it at least worth having that motherboard for whenever DDR5 matures?

 

If I do go DDR5, I may have to wait an additional 2 to 4 weeks because paycheck(s). And with gas prices recently spiking almost overnight, I'm worried PC prices all prices will inflate soon, and my 2-4 weeks may become more like 2-4 months.

[IkeaGnome]

In my opinion, probably not worth the extra cost. Here's a head to head on DDR4 and DDR5 though with some workstation tasks.

 

[DANK_AS_gay]

13 minutes ago, Bootskii said:

Is DDR5 6000MHz worth an additional $177 US (including motherboard)

No. Just use that money for a better GPU, you'll see more benefit. Or just don't spend it at all.

[4PcBuilder]

Bro at Amazon you can get a 16gb kit of 5600mhz ram for like 150 bucks just get that.Also gigabyte, msi,and asus have z690 ddr5 boards for under 250 the z690-a, the z690-p, and the elite aourus ax Ddr5.

[IkeaGnome]

2 hours ago, 4PcBuilder said:

Bro at Amazon you can get a 16gb kit of 5600mhz ram for like 150 bucks just get that.Also gigabyte, msi,and asus have z690 ddr5 boards for under 250 the z690-a, the z690-p, and the elite aourus ax Ddr5.

A single stick kit. The benchmarks in the GN video are on dual channel. Your performance would be worse than in the benchmarks, making it entirely not worthwhile. 

[Bootskii]

3 hours ago, IkeaGnome said:

In my opinion, probably not worth the extra cost. Here's a head to head on DDR4 and DDR5 though with some workstation tasks.

 

Thank you! Yeah I doubt I'll actually notice a 4.5% increase. And I definitely won't even get that much with a 12700K. Not sure if he's talking timeline playback or encode speed, but I guess it doesn't matter at this point.

[IkeaGnome]

2 minutes ago, Bootskii said:

Thank you! Yeah I doubt I'll actually notice a 4.5% increase. And I definitely won't even get that much with a 12700K. Not sure if he's talking timeline playback or encode speed, but I guess it doesn't matter at this point.

Steve is using Puget System's PugetBench for premier pro. There's an article in the link below on what exactly they're testing in the benchmark.

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/PugetBench-for-Premiere-Pro-1519/

That being said, Puget Systems is a highly under utilized but amazing company to get benchmarks at. Steve's results are spot on with theirs.

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Adobe-Premiere-Pro-12th-Gen-Intel-Core-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5000-Series-2242/

Something to note in their findings

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Something we do want to mention is that in our Windows 11 vs Windows 10 testing for the 12th Gen CPUs, we actually saw about 8% lower performance with Windows 11 on the Core i9 12900K, and 12% lower on the Core i9 11900K. We did not see this on the AMD Ryzen CPUs, however, which suggests that there is currently a bug in Windows 11 that is lowering performance with the Intel CPUs. Because of this, it is very likely that Intel will see a decent performance bump in the near future - assuming whatever the issue is is patched, of course.

Unless it's been fixed, Premier Pro favors W10 still.

[GDRRiley]

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Impact-of-DDR5-Speed-on-Content-Creation-Performance-2300/
 

this is a pretty good article on how much DDR5 speed matters, it really doesn't and so just compared DDR4 to DDR5 results.
its typically less than 10% faster and for the extra price you could double capacity of DDR4