CL7 / CL9 1600 RAM vs CL15 2400 RAM?

[john52200]

As the title says how would you compare these 3? and don't say there is no difference because new games like the new Tomb Raider has proven that fast ram has a massive performance gain. Its scary how huge the performance in fast ram is becoming./

 

[nitrium]

ALL of your questions are likely to answered in this article: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6372/memory-performance-16gb-ddr31333-to-ddr32400-on-ivy-bridge-igp-with-gskill
And it actually really doesn't make as much difference as you think it would - there is certainly no "massive performance gain". I would love to read the Tomb Raider benchmark article that says there is - I strongly suspect it has a lot more to do with CPU/GPU configurations than changes in RAM speed!

 

[Tradesman1]

Fallout 4 shows good gains with faster DRAM - 10% or so, and this is an upcoming trend, game developers are using DRAM more and more as part of the game play, so faster can improve performance. If thinking going Skylake, I'd definately go the DDR4, even if say going Haswell (DDR3) , 2133/2400 is the sweetspot for price to performance

 

[nitrium]

Fallout 4 shows good gains with faster DRAM - 10% or so,

Can you give me a link to a review/benchmark or whatever that demonstrates this? RAM performance in games is generally the single most irrelevant factor in frames per second (like literally within the margin of error between DDR3 1333 and DDR4 3200). I have yet to see otherwise, but I'm all ready to be shown some facts and figures.

 

[Tradesman1]

http://wccftech.com/fallout-4-performance-heavily-influenced-by-ram-speed-according-to-report/

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/forum/threadview/2955064771640561038

It's also been shown that faster DRAM can improve average FPS which makes for better smoother gaming. And as said the more the developers utilize DRAM the higher the increases to come, for a long time, they basically ignored DRAM and left it as a simple data conduit

 

[nitrium]

http://wccftech.com/fallout-4-performance-heavily-influenced-by-ram-speed-according-to-report/

That's pretty interesting to be sure, and it's been verified by a number of people too. That said, Fallout 4 seems to be the only title that is THAT heavily influenced by RAM speed. The jury is still out whether or not this will be trend going forward imo.