DDR4 3200 or 2133

[DukiNuki]

Hey Guys

Im Building my Z170 system and i'm noticing large variety of DDR4 sticks with different Mhz . if there's little to no difference in gaming performance then why do we have 2133 and 3200 sticks ?

i was going to get G.Skill TridentZ 16GB 3200 , because of the brand quality , TridentZ is claimed to work better with Skylake . and 3200 is higher than 2133 which is something you see in numbers not in real world Gaming . but why there's such price difference between 2133 and 3200 ?

any reason i should go with G.Skill TridentZ 16GB 3200 and not 2133 ?

i'm not overclocking at all ( maybe many years later when my i7 6700k started working like crap then maybe i would OC it a bit ) and i'm mainly doing gaming and all i care about is performance , i care about doe few FPS gains , but i also don't wanna waste money on pointless things . so whats your advice 3200 or 2133 ?

 

[turkey3_scratch]

RAM does help a bit in some games. Also, price difference is usually very minimal. You could even get 2800Mhz if you want.

 

[DukiNuki]

but like how much ? 2 fps ? 0.5 fps ?

G.Skill TridentZ Series 16GB DDR4-3200 is 85 $
G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB DDR4-2133 is 53 $

 

[turkey3_scratch]

It depends on the game. On some it'll help more than that, could be 5-10. Others 0.

Why not go in between? Get 2800Mhz. You don't need to get Trident Z - there are other brands, too. Other models.

 

[joex444]

The 3200 is a 16-18-18 timing while the 2133 is a 15-15-15 timing (yikes - at 2133MHz, that's pretty bad). Performance indices would be 184 for the 3200MHz, 142 for the 2133MHz.

I'd probably go for the TridentZ 3000MHz 2x8GB kit with 15-16-16 timings at $73 (PI = 191). For 16GB, these are sort of unbelievable prices anyways.

Where you'll notice a bump in performance would be any situation where you have lot of memory access: cryptographic calculations or data compression. The latter includes RAR, ZIP, LZMA, etc., as well as x264/x265 and to lesser extent audio compression. Gaming - not so much, since the game should be living in your GPU's on-board RAM (this is the cause of the 3.5GB vs 4GB issue with the GTX 970 - games got slow when you needed the last 0.5GB, and that 0.5GB at the end is still faster than system RAM).

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Yeah it really depends on what you're doing. Here is a great comparison article.

http://www.techspot.com/article/1171-ddr4-4000-mhz-performance/

I went with TridentZ 3200 cas 14 myself.

 

[DukiNuki]

Oh Good , thanks alot 😉 . if you found any benchmark that shows significant gains please do post the link here .

 

[DukiNuki]

Wow till now all the benchmarks showed like maximum of 2 fps gain but this new article showed way more than that . ill guess ill aim for 3200

preferably G.Skill TridentZ 16GB 3200 or maybe something higher

 

[DukiNuki]

Take a look at this

http://www.legitreviews.com/ddr4-memory-scaling-intel-z170-finding-the-best-ddr4-memory-kit-speed_170340/5

why the difference is so tiny while in your article its noticeably big

 

[Tradesman1]

Here's a bit on Fallout 4, which can well be indicative of things to come in games as the developers utilize DRAM more and more (and more of it). I've got the TridentZ 3200/14 sticks and they are great - they also have new ones coming out with even tighter CLs and different color schemes:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/gskill-low-latency-trident-ddr4,31815.html

 

[DukiNuki]

wow they look so cool , i didnt know that i should aim for lower CAS .

so 3200mhz 15 CAS is better than 3200mhz 16 CAS right ?

So going for 3200 over 2133 will make me future proof ? because right now many articles suggest that they have minimal difference in gaming . like 1 or 2 fps .

BUT , i'm so freaking surprised why does this article show such huge difference in slight change of mhz ? could you please explain whats happening in below link ?

http://www.techspot.com/article/1171-ddr4-4000-mhz-performance/page3.html

and why are the results lot different than this one

http://www.legitreviews.com/ddr4-memory-scaling-intel-z170-finding-the-best-ddr4-memory-kit-speed_170340/5

 

[Tradesman1]

Yes, it's not a major increase, though the lower the CL, here 15 vs 16, also can be indicative of better OC potential, i.e. I oCed my 3200/14 to 3600 15 with no problem

 

[DukiNuki]

And how much more fps did you gain ?

 

[Tradesman1]

Me, I'm not a gamer, part of my business is building higher end rigs for gamers and business users, OCing, fine tuning and the like

 

[DukiNuki]

oh Good . thanks alot for all the answers ;D

 

[DukiNuki]

so sorry but one last question

3200 Mhz CAS 14 vs 3400 Mhz CAS 16 vs 3600 Mhz CAS 16

All DDR4 16GB Same brand , can you sort them performance wise ?

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Not much difference but the 3600 cas 16 is the best.

 

[Tradesman1]

3600/16
3200/14
3400/16

The 3200/14 should run at 3400 with a 15 CL

 

[DukiNuki]

1.So 3200/14 out performs 3400-16 ?
2.The Motherboard i might get wont go over 3200 unless Overclocked . how can i run 3200/14 at 3400/15 without overclocking or changing the voltage ? is there an XMP or something for that ?

 

[Tradesman1]

Go top to bottom, out of the package the 3600/16 will provide the top performance, the 3200/14 will be on a par or slightly better than the 3400/16 (the 3200/14 should OC to 3400/15 at least) - you look for the best combo of data rate and CL, might look at my FAQs article - item 5, might explain it better:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2741495/ddr3-faqs-fiction.html

 

[DukiNuki]

Very Detailed and useful article , thanks alot man 😉

 

[Tradesman1]

No worries 😉