Actually.. This memory makes a huge difference in gaming.
Going from DDR4 3,000 to DDR4 4,000 provides on a average a 20%+ performance increase in FPS!
Your talking going from 60 fps to 73 fps.
I use to think the same way, fast memory is a waste of money..
After 4,000Mhz any faster doesn't help much!
But squeezing 22% more performance out of SLI 980TI's in game power on average, by bumping from DDR4 3000 to 4000?!
Sign me up!
Don't be ignorant. The results are real, and the bottleneck is there.
DDR4 4,000+ is very useful with i5 gaming systems. Especially with a GTX 1080 or just a very powerful GPU in general. It really helps to overclock the memory even further.
Running a i5 6609K @ 5,112 MHz and a GTX 1080 @ 2,250/11,800
Fallout 4 shows GPU utilization at only 60%. This means the GPU is bottlenecked, mind you Fallout 4 is very CPU hungry, and poorly optimized. Although, increasing the DDR4 to 4,200+ MHz from the standard DDR4 3000mhz. The GPU utilization went from , 60% to 87% .
The frame rates increased on average by 12-14 fps more. And 10 more on the minimum.
It would have been nice if they kept the lower DIMM height of the Ripjaws 4 (40 mm) instead of increasing it for the Trident Z (44 mm), but I suppose the larger heatsink may be what's helping to achieve the high clocks.
I don't think the heatsinks are helping with maintaining the higher clock speed. These are still only running at 1.35V, which was the voltage used for low power DDR3. These would run absolutely fine without heatsinks. It may be possible to remove these heatsinks and fit Ripjaws 4 heatsinks to them but you're risking damaging the chips and voiding your warranty.
I would take the 3200's with that 13cas latency. It's the sweet spot. you simply don't get the same performance/speed/latency/price ratio with the other options.
I know that I am probably going to sound like a cynic but when I saw this I was going "Oh joy... now we can expand our memory and the game companies can do even LESS optimization and the massive amounts of memory can make up for that!"
Memory usage has scarcely been relevant in games for a decade. This is despite the fact that the average RAM in a gaming machine has only gone from 4GB to 8GB in those 10 years. Contrast that to the late 90s and early 2000 when regular RAM upgrades (every 12-24 months) were required because the RAM usage kept surging. If that pattern had continued, the norm today would've been more in the ballpark of 32GB or 64GB.
When it comes down to it, I'd rather devs spend time on optimising for efficient computation than efficient RAM usage.
Ever since consoles became interesting market the memory consumption for games stopped climbing as fast as it used to. Probably one of very few positives it brought to PC gaming.
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ImSpartacus - Friday, May 20, 2016 - link
Oh man, better put these in my system to improve my video game fps.jabber - Sunday, May 22, 2016 - link
Yeah it will be amazing to go from 122FPS to 123FPS!aakash_sin - Monday, May 23, 2016 - link
+1damianrobertjones - Monday, May 23, 2016 - link
+1tps3443 - Monday, February 13, 2017 - link
Actually.. This memory makes a huge difference in gaming.Going from DDR4 3,000 to DDR4 4,000 provides on a average a 20%+ performance increase in FPS!
Your talking going from 60 fps to 73 fps.
I use to think the same way, fast memory is a waste of money..
After 4,000Mhz any faster doesn't help much!
But squeezing 22% more performance out of SLI 980TI's in game power on average, by bumping from DDR4 3000 to 4000?!
Sign me up!
Don't be ignorant. The results are real, and the bottleneck is there.
DDR4 4,000+ is very useful with i5 gaming systems. Especially with a GTX 1080 or just a very powerful GPU in general. It really helps to overclock the memory even further.
Running a i5 6609K @ 5,112 MHz and a GTX 1080 @ 2,250/11,800
Fallout 4 shows GPU utilization at only 60%. This means the GPU is bottlenecked, mind you Fallout 4 is very CPU hungry, and poorly optimized. Although, increasing the DDR4 to 4,200+ MHz from the standard DDR4 3000mhz. The GPU utilization went from , 60% to 87% .
The frame rates increased on average by 12-14 fps more. And 10 more on the minimum.
bloodinmyveins - Friday, May 20, 2016 - link
Soon they will replace my crappy crucials. Soon.yuhong - Friday, May 20, 2016 - link
I wonder if this is based on https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-starts-mas...ltcommanderdata - Friday, May 20, 2016 - link
It would have been nice if they kept the lower DIMM height of the Ripjaws 4 (40 mm) instead of increasing it for the Trident Z (44 mm), but I suppose the larger heatsink may be what's helping to achieve the high clocks.WithoutWeakness - Monday, May 23, 2016 - link
I don't think the heatsinks are helping with maintaining the higher clock speed. These are still only running at 1.35V, which was the voltage used for low power DDR3. These would run absolutely fine without heatsinks. It may be possible to remove these heatsinks and fit Ripjaws 4 heatsinks to them but you're risking damaging the chips and voiding your warranty.Lolimaster - Friday, May 20, 2016 - link
I would take the 3200's with that 13cas latency. It's the sweet spot. you simply don't get the same performance/speed/latency/price ratio with the other options.LordanSS - Saturday, May 21, 2016 - link
I second that.... 16GB x2, 3200 at 13-13-13... I tip my hat to them.Lerianis - Saturday, May 21, 2016 - link
I know that I am probably going to sound like a cynic but when I saw this I was going "Oh joy... now we can expand our memory and the game companies can do even LESS optimization and the massive amounts of memory can make up for that!"DarkXale - Sunday, May 22, 2016 - link
Memory usage has scarcely been relevant in games for a decade. This is despite the fact that the average RAM in a gaming machine has only gone from 4GB to 8GB in those 10 years. Contrast that to the late 90s and early 2000 when regular RAM upgrades (every 12-24 months) were required because the RAM usage kept surging. If that pattern had continued, the norm today would've been more in the ballpark of 32GB or 64GB.When it comes down to it, I'd rather devs spend time on optimising for efficient computation than efficient RAM usage.
HollyDOL - Monday, May 23, 2016 - link
Ever since consoles became interesting market the memory consumption for games stopped climbing as fast as it used to. Probably one of very few positives it brought to PC gaming.willis936 - Monday, May 23, 2016 - link
Saying consoles did it is a bit more than far fetched.HollyDOL - Tuesday, May 24, 2016 - link
Prove me wrong ;-)extide - Monday, May 23, 2016 - link
Well, norm for me today IS 32GB, heh. 16GB minimum in all my systems, 32GB preferred.