{"id":3418,"date":"2021-12-09T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vasportscomplex.com\/?p=3418"},"modified":"2023-05-09T10:56:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T10:56:47","slug":"ddr5-vs-ddr4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcbuildcomparison.com\/ddr5-vs-ddr4\/","title":{"rendered":"DDR5 VS DDR4 Which RAM is Best for Z690 Motherboard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
If you read our Alder Lake coverage last issue, you’ll know that Intel’s new chipset and 12th-gen CPUs don’t just bring a new CPU socket, but also new memory in the form of DDR5. It offers higher frequencies and greater bandwidth than DDR4, as well as on-board voltage control and more besides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, as with any new technology, there are teething issues and early DDR5 kits have guite high timings for starters, plus they’re only available in very small quantities at the moment. There’s also the fact that faster kits will be launched in the near future, as we learned last month in our Q&A with memory manufacturer Kingston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you’re looking to buy a premium motherboard, then you may well have to opt for DDR5 memory <\/a>regardless, as DDR4 options are usually only available at the cheaper end of the scale. Taking this route would likely offer the best degree of future proofing too, since you’ll likely be able to transfer your new memory kit to future Intel. We can see if either offers tangible benefits over the other and whether you should think twice about splashing out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Starting with the Corei9-12900K<\/a>,our image editing test,which stresses single threaded performance,offered small advantage with DDR5,with score of 80,694 vs80,011,and another smallgainer heavilymulti-threadedvideoencodingtest, which rose from 1,101,433 to 1,110,719 when shifting to DDR5. It’s Not A Massive Difference, butDDR5is slightly faster nonetheless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you\u2019re looking to buy a premium motherboard, then you may well have to opt for DDR5 memory regardless of AMD systems, but for now, you’ll have to pay more money for it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, a 32GB Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 3600MHz kit currently costs $18, while the similar kit in DDR5 form at 5200MHz will set you back $290. Below we’ve carried out a series of tests across all three CPUs in an Asus ROC Maximus Z690 Apex and TUF Z690-Plus WiFi D4 motherboard. The former is DDR5- enabled and the latter still limited to DDR4, so However, the multi-tasking test was slightly slower, even if the overall system score gave a slight advantage to DDR5. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Far Cry 6 again saw a small advantage with DDR4 on this gaming CPU<\/a>, but only on the average frame rate, which rose from 137fps to 140fps. In Cinebench, the score again rose slightly from 27,292 to 27,407. Overall, there are slight improvements, but nothing worthy of the upgrade cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n DDR5 offered a slight upshift in the image editing test and video encoding test, and in the system score, but similarly saw a lower multi-threaded score with DDR5 memory. Cinebench again saw a slightly higher result with DDR5 memory, but practically within the margin of error at vs 22,507. Finally, Far Cry 6 offered no benefit, with the exact same 88fps 99th percentile and 132fps average being obtained from both systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n