Does RAM speed matter in gaming?

[Jay Kapoor]

Does RAM speed matter in gaming?

 

[Γιώργος Γιαμακίδης]

and her price is ...$

 

[Ross Forde]

no not really, you can game perfectly fine on 1333mhz RAM. Latency has more of an effect than frequency does.

 

[David Simmons]

Not enough

 

[Andik R. Setiyo Hendarto]

Not really.

 

[Zuri Ramirez]

Actually it kinda does in some games for Ryzen CPUs..

 

[Richard Gooden]

Linus made a video on RAM, in short, spend money elsewhere.

 

[Braden England]

Ryzen loves memory frequency.

 

[Damian Lamanteer]

but can it run crysis 3 at 480p

 

[Jordan Johnson]

Bethesda are currently working on porting Skyrim to work on RAM alone!

 

[Chandler Keith Henson]

i want the worlds fastest 64GB kit (4x16GB) and no RGB

 

[Taiwo Akinde]

Not really no

 

[Heewon Oh]

Only some very high end games can improve with higher speed RAM and that is only on certain platforms. E.g. GTA V on x99 / x299 can face ~ 10-15 fps difference sometimes.

 

[Chance Coulombe]

Ram matters with everything on a pc

 

[Diego Morales Rivero]

Meh, I dont know...

 

[Joseph George William]

Allow me to enlighten the non-believers.

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[Myles Ward]

Uhh this news is old af theyve had 4600 for quite some time now

 

[Dustin Chamberlain]

bandwidth/speed is not what affects gaming performance, but rather latencies; True latencies. Having much faster RAM is no good for gaming if it comes with proportionately higher CAS latencies to keep it stable. Even with properly "fast" RAM, you will only really see any meaningful performance gains in CPU bound situations, which most games are usually not CPU bound. in such GPU bound situations you will see minimal performance gains and usually only to your minimum framerates. on the other hand, in a properly CPU bound scenario we tend to see significantly better performance scaling to a noticeable extent.

 

[Guru Prashanth]

Ajith Shenoy when you think about 1866 mhz and the world is working at 4400mhz

 

[Wayne Brown]

I wish they would just get heir rgb software to work even using just rgb fusion I'm lucky to ever get the profiles or even both sticks to light up at the same time g-skill tridents rgbs are buggy, defiantly be getting the non rgb version if they release