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- May 22, 2016
This will be obvious to veterans of ram, but hopefully it helps some people debating if fast ram is worth the extra cost. Lots of debate on whether or not 3600mhz ram is best for Zen2, so here's my findings.
I decided to test the difference on my Ryzen 3600/980 ti combo. I used 3600mhz/c15 ram.
For testing, I used the built in benchmarks on Division 2, Ashes of the Singularity, Shadow of War, Metro: Exodus, and Farcry 5 because those are the games I currently have with built in benchmarks.
I first set it to 2133mhz/c19 and ran all the built in game benchmarks on low graphics settings, then medium settings, then high settings.
I then set my ram to 3600mhz/c15 and repeated the same tests.
My findings:
On low graphics settings, I gained between 20-30fps just from increasing the ram speed.
On medium graphics settings, I gained between 10-15fps from the ram increase.
On High graphics settings, I gained 0fps across all titles. Zero gain at all.
TL;DR - If you're bottleneck is your gpu, which most peoples probably will be, faster ram saw zero gaming benefit. It was only when I removed the gpu bottleneck that I was able to see gains. If you play on low settings to get max fps, it should help. If you game on high because you want the best quality, you're better off saving your money on the faster ram.
I decided to test the difference on my Ryzen 3600/980 ti combo. I used 3600mhz/c15 ram.
For testing, I used the built in benchmarks on Division 2, Ashes of the Singularity, Shadow of War, Metro: Exodus, and Farcry 5 because those are the games I currently have with built in benchmarks.
I first set it to 2133mhz/c19 and ran all the built in game benchmarks on low graphics settings, then medium settings, then high settings.
I then set my ram to 3600mhz/c15 and repeated the same tests.
My findings:
On low graphics settings, I gained between 20-30fps just from increasing the ram speed.
On medium graphics settings, I gained between 10-15fps from the ram increase.
On High graphics settings, I gained 0fps across all titles. Zero gain at all.
TL;DR - If you're bottleneck is your gpu, which most peoples probably will be, faster ram saw zero gaming benefit. It was only when I removed the gpu bottleneck that I was able to see gains. If you play on low settings to get max fps, it should help. If you game on high because you want the best quality, you're better off saving your money on the faster ram.