Is DDR4 really worth the upgrade?

[jdcasazza23]

When I saw the video Linus made about the performance difference DDR3 and DDR4 have. It was not much of a big difference in performance but I'm curious to know how many people would actually make the upgrade. 

[CoolaxGaming]

Its not worth it. But as always there are bragging rights .

 

"ME HAZ DDR4, WHICHZ ONE MORE THEN YOUR NOOBZ DDR3."

[Suika]

DDR4 itself is not worth it, the X99 platform may be, though.

[Enderman]

no its not

[zlolslavez]

I mean, you can't really "upgrade" to DDR4 from DDR3 without some system overhauling.

Currently the price isn't justified, but when the time comes that X99 is a standard platform, and DDR4 costs less than or equal to DDR3, then I would switch.

[PillowSmoke]

To answer your question, yes and no. No right now, but yes in the near-future. At the moment it really isn't being supported by motherboard manufactures, it's only only the x99 platform so far, which only pertains to a very minuscule percentage of most systems.  

[rtpb5642]

When I saw the video Linus made about the performance difference DDR3 and DDR4 have. Is not much of a big difference but I'm curious to know how many people would actually make the upgrade.

Not me

[PillowSmoke]

Oh and Welcome to the forums, my dear sir! I hope you enjoy your stay!

[JustCallMeVlad]

Everyone seems to forget that when ddr3 was introduced 1600 was the fastest available for awhile. DDR4 will be over 4000 effective by the time it's ddr3's age

[Briggsy]

give it a couple more generations. it only has the advantage of power consumption right now, and we're talking about Ram so the difference is negligible until ddr4 is running in low power, low cost consumer devices. once chipsets and memory controllers can keep up, then you can expect performance advantages.

[Hieb]

DDR4 only has slightly higher clock speed than DDR3.

Right now you can get DDR3 up to about 2666MHz for cheaper than the same-clocked DDR4, and the DDR3 kit will have lower latency to boot. But the X99 platform has the best priced Intel 6-core CPUs... an i7-5820K is a great deal at its price and overclocks easily to ~4.4GHz. The 5820K is worth upgrading for, DDR4 on its own is not

[ViruZ_HUN]

Its not worth it. But as always there are bragging rights .

 

"ME HAZ DDR4, WHICHZ ONE MORE THEN YOUR NOOBZ DDR3."

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[Dabombinable]

Its not worth it. But as always there are bragging rights .

 

"ME HAZ DDR4, WHICHZ ONE MORE THEN YOUR NOOBZ DDR3."

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[Kosta]

Well ram speeds arent that different maybe milliseconds faster, but that is not noticeable, but new cpu's are worth it, i bought i7 5930k and i totally destroys my old i7 4770k.

[Analog]

I guess that for a workstation environment it does matter, particularly for applications that use a lot of RAM. For general usage, not at all. Having the bragging rights is also important though.

[sci.fi.man]

For me personally i'd rather choose the capacity not the speed of RAM. DDR4 is needed only when some hardware needs them (X99 for example)