Captain_Yuri said:
hinch said:
Linus did a small comparison between the new DDR5 vs DDR4 in his usual fashion.
With DDR5 being largely unavailable and scalped to hell, current DDR4 kits/modules still remains relatively competitive in performance and may or may not yet give you tangible performance uplift when going DDR5; and kinda depends on application and workloads.
For gaming there's hardly any uplift. Though in memory intensive applications like Photoshop you can get some pretty substantial performance gains. Value for money DDR4 is still where its at with DDR5 being largely unavailable and it might a solution for people who have or plan to get a ADL system and can't get DDR5 rn.
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Yea seeing results like this and the shortages in general, it makes me glad I didn't wait to upgrade.
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True, plus you get to enjoy using your PC for a whole year instead of waiting. And early adopter tax on top is always going to be kicker, never mind the current situation with scalpers and shortages. That and it being a negligible difference, for now. People (like us) with Zen 3 PC's can ride it out for a long while yet until more mature DDR5 modules come along and motherboards to go along with Zen4/Raptorlake.
