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The RAM crisis is resurrecting DDR4 memory and motherboard production as hardware cycle reverses - CPU, GPU, and RAM production are going back in time, for consumers anyway (www.techspot.com)
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[–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

As a gamer in a budget, how much performance am I missing by sticking to DDR4 in order to save costs? I've been trying to find info online, but it seems inconclusive - some places say it can net you like 20% difference, others that it has no significant difference, and I'm not sure which of the two is telling the truth. Same goes for performance in home servers.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    The difference doesn't necessarily come from the RAM itself, but that the best processors for gaming these days don't support DDR4 anymore.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    There are some differences, but real world applications, especially in the gaming space, are minuscule. You do almost touch on another important point; it’s hard to get benchmarks because you’re not going to find a processor that was made for both. Basically a single gen of intel is all we get. FWIW that gen showed a roughly 5% performance on a typical game, and 10% on a known memory intensive game. That’s 3 frames at 60fps, or ~7 frames at 144, and this assumes you actually need that last bit of performance.

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