RAM mhz difference

[cheef]

So i am looking to buy new DDR4 ram and i noticed that there are ram modules with a lot of different mhz speed available. the price increases with the frequency ( which makes sense) but will a higher freqency ram give me a boost in gameing performance or am i good to go with the cheaper ones?

[Guest]

9 minutes ago, cheef said:

So i am looking to buy new DDR4 ram and i noticed that there are ram modules with a lot of different mhz speed available. the price increases with the frequency ( which makes sense) but will a higher freqency ram give me a boost in gameing performance or am i good to go with the cheaper ones?

Go with the cheaper ones, not worth it for the price increase.

[Markus_E]

6 minutes ago, cheef said:

So i am looking to buy new DDR4 ram and i noticed that there are ram modules with a lot of different mhz speed available. the price increases with the frequency ( which makes sense) but will a higher freqency ram give me a boost in gameing performance or am i good to go with the cheaper ones?

It only gives you very little performence boost, that you probably wont be able to notice

[cheef]

thank you

[Schakal_No1]

what cpu are you using? The new ryzen chips actually have a huge performance difference depending on the ram. If you use an intel cpu the difference is quite small.

[cheef]

Just now, Schakal_No1 said:

what cpu are you using? The new ryzen chips actually have a huge performance difference depending on the ram. If you use an intel cpu the difference is quite small.

intel 7700k

[Schakal_No1]

1 minute ago, cheef said:

intel 7700k

ok then there will be only a couple of fps difference between the fastest and slowest DDR4 RAM

[HKZeroFive]

Just going to copy and paste this:

 

"It's been proven time and time again that RAM speed can make significant performance improvements in a wide variety of games so why are people still saying it makes such a little improvement? The bottom line is that faster RAM will give you higher minimum framerates, which is one of the most important metrics when it comes to gaming, if not the most important. However, in CPU-bound games where the CPU is essentially the bottleneck, faster RAM may give you higher average framerates, which is a nice thing to have.

 

LTT has completely neglected minimum framerates (the biggest benefit from faster memory) in their testing, and also used massively GPU bound settings with a mediocre GPU, the GTX 660Ti. So their conclusion is invalid. But as a result of that video, people have been spouting the same rubbish of "faster RAM gives little to no benefit in games" when the evidence says otherwise."

 

A few videos by Digital Foundry (who have actually tested this the proper way):

If you're going to claim something, back it up with evidence first.

 

EDIT: Formatting is fucked and not letting me fix it so forgive me for that.