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DDR4? Isn't this a fail

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lIrenicuSl

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Feb 20, 2015
So im watching the market for like 1 year and checking the growing of DDR4 kits but in my opninion the frequency of 3000 mhz with CL15+ is wayy to big, is this going to change anyway?

Or can someone teach me and show how to calculate the cycles for an example:
DDR4 3000 CL 15
vs
DDR3 2133 CL9
 
Memory isn't a bottleneck for 99% of people..part of the point of ddr4 was power savings as well. ;)
 
You can't compare different technologies. Except memory speed there are many factors that are affecting performance. Memory controller or cache make huge difference. Look at DDR3 and AMD vs Intel. Intel is up to 200% faster even though both are using the same memory type.

Haswell-E likes ~2666-3000 memory clock but tighter timings = probably related to already high memory bandwidth but slower cache.
Skylake likes 3000+ memory clock ( more like 3200+ ) but doesn't really work much faster at tight timings = probably related to faster cache/lower access time.

I think that market is going for lower power usage and higher memory capacity rather than much higher performance. From our ( overclockers, gamers, enthusiasts, ... ) point of view performance matters more but we are only small % of the market. Business and office computers are much more affected by DDR4. Especially in servers it counts as you can address much more RAM for single CPU and new single CPUs have many more cores.
 
Servers require nice solid performance, while saving as much power as possible. That is what major corporations look for, due to the fact that the more money they save on running the server leads to more money they earn per year. Hence why the newer tech is always geared first towards the major players.

Just wait a while, and things will trickle down to enthusiasts.

As Woomack stated, we do not drive the market, though in some cases we do drive innovation.

As someone working on Network Administration as his current field of education, the new technology is great. However, adoption of new technology is quite slow. The servers that are running now are a lot of the time still running DDR2, heck there are still servers running PC-166 memory out there.

It will be quite a while before DDR4 is fully integrated into environment.
 
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