DDR4-3600 CL15 vs DDR4-3200 CL14

[Alex_208]

Hi,

I'm building my first gaming PC, and I'm stuck between two choices of RAM.
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-3600 CL15
G.Skill TridentZ DDR4-3200 CL14
Which one will be faster/better?

 

[gskill support]

Same price?

 

[Alex_208]

Same price?

Corsair is about 15$ more.

 

[photonboy]

Beyond DDR4 2666MHz CL16 seems to be minimal or no benefit to most scenarios.

So in reality they're probably roughly IDENTICAL in that the bottleneck is the CPU, and we're talking the i7-6700K anything less requires less bandwidth.

Example: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/198894-raming-speed-does-boosting-ddr4-to-3200mhz-improve-overall-performance

"As Anandtech’s benchmarks show, the benefits of moving from DDR4-2133 to DDR4-3200 are tiny.... "

(notable exceptions are integrated graphics like the best APU's which use some of this memory as VIDEO memory)

 

[Alex_208]

Beyond DDR4 2666MHz CL16 seems to be minimal or no benefit to most scenarios.

So in reality they're probably roughly IDENTICAL in that the bottleneck is the CPU, and we're talking the i7-6700K anything less requires less bandwidth.

As a matter of fact, I am getting an i7-6700k. So from what I understand it won't really change anything?

 

[photonboy]

Beyond DDR4 2666MHz CL16 seems to be minimal or no benefit to most scenarios.

So in reality they're probably roughly IDENTICAL in that the bottleneck is the CPU, and we're talking the i7-6700K anything less requires less bandwidth.

As a matter of fact, I am getting an i7-6700k. So from what I understand it won't really change anything?

Updated my post. Go read the article.

Here's the longer quote:

"As Anandtech’s benchmarks show, the benefits of moving from DDR4-2133 to DDR4-3200 are tiny. The vast majority of consumer applications and games show gains of 0-5%. To be clear, Anandtech does find a few applications where this trend gets bucked — minimum frame rates are up a touch in several titles, particularly in SLI testing, and there’s one benchmark, the Redis memory key-store test, where moving from DDR4-2133 to DDR4-3200 gives a relatively huge benefit of 16% for a 50% clock rate boost. These gains, however, are erratic and unpredictable. The Redis test is designed to benchmark an online application database, and explicitly depends on high memory bandwidth and CPU performance. Outside of these tests, performance mostly doesn’t improve from faster main memory — so why not?"

**THAT is why I suggest DDR4 2666MHz CL15/CL16 to most people.

 

[Tradesman1]

The higher bandwidth show through more in better performance if you are multi-tasking or using DRAM intensive apps, you seldom see much in individual benchmarks. For a $15 difference I'd go the 3200/14, I've got a set of the Trident Zs in 3200/14 and have run them at 3600/15 with no problems

 

[Nebulon]

Problem is that the article is more the year old. And Skylek CPU should have good scaling with higher bandwidth so where is the truth?

 

[Orione]

Problem is that the article is more the year old. And Skylek CPU should have good scaling with higher bandwidth so where is the truth?

Now there are gskill 3200 cl13 and 3466 cl14 models http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/g-skill-trident-z-ddr4-4266mhz-8gbx2-extreme-speed-memory-kit.html

 

[Orione]

There are even better memories GSkill recently developed:
3200 cl13 and 3466 cl14
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/g-skill-trident-z-ddr4-4266mhz-8gbx2-extreme-speed-memory-kit.html
http://www.gskill.com/en/press/view/g-skill-announces-trident-z-ddr4-4266mhz-16gb--8gbx2--1-35v-extreme-speed-memory-kit

 

[Tradesman1]

Yes and the different color schemes for the Tri's, Toms covered it here:

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

 

[gskill support]

Depends if your software and purpose can take advantage of bandwidth. Most people do not have any purpose for it, so when they test using their normal usage, there is not much difference. But for others and in the future for 4K+ video and such reasons for greater bandwidth, then you will notice a significant improvement. In other words, high performance hardware is meant for high performance users.

Problem is that the article is more the year old. And Skylek CPU should have good scaling with higher bandwidth so where is the truth?