Battlefield 4 Loves High Speed Memory

tabuburn · October 22, 2013

The guys over at Corsair did a little memory benchmarking on the Beta version of Battlefield 4 and were surprised to find out that they got a significant boost in performance switching from 1600MHz to 2400MHz RAM speeds.

These results should be taken with a grain of salt since this was a Beta version of the game and they were using FRAPS instead of frame capturing but we should still expect to see some improvement when the game comes out.

Specs they used were:
i7-4770K overclocked to 4.4GHz

2x overclocked GeForce GTX 780s in SLI
32GB of Dominator Platinum

Spec-wise, you'd think RAM speeds wouldn't matter unless you are using integrated graphics but with 2 GTX 780's you'd never think it was.

The graphs are really striking:

Look at those differences! At 1920x1200, average framerates get a 22.7% jump while the minimum framerate was still a healthy 9.7%. At 5760x1200, average framerates go up by 15.2%, and minimum framerate by 22.9%.

Maybe this might be a trend with the other upcoming games that require 64-bit operating systems, who knows.

Source: http://www.corsair.com/blog/bf4-loves-high-speed-memory/