I tried to find answer to the question in the title on various forums, but couldn't find anything except gaming benchmarks that showed that if GPU is bottlenecking the system then decreasing memory latency doesn't give any noticable FPS increase. But I'm not interested in gaming and FPS.
My question is, does decreasing memory latency and increasing RAM bandwidth have positive effects on the system performance when GPU is very weak and seriously bottlenecks it? What kind of benchmarks will show benefits of decreasing memory latency in this case?
As an example I have the following build:
Ryzen 5 1600 (stock),
gt 1030,
2x8 GB DDR4 clocked at 2800 CL18
I know the GPU is weak and bottlenecks the system, but I really don't need better GPU, because I'm not a gamer and I don't do video/photo editing.
I overclocked the RAM from 2666 CL20 to 2888 CL18. But there weren't any benchmark result improvment for PCMark 10. But the latency and bandwidth benchmarks in Aida64 showed around 5% improvent. But I don't know whether this improvevent is any good for my system?
I want to know, will any further ovcerclocking this RAM give any benefits to the system performance and if the answer is yes then what kind of tasks will benefit from further overclocking RAM? and how do I meaningfully measue these improvements in benchmarks?
I'm especially interested in these kind of performances: responsiveness of the system, faster app open/load times, faster windows load times, faster calculation in CAS programs like Mathematica/Maple etc.
I'm not interested in gaming benchmarks and FPS.
My question is, does decreasing memory latency and increasing RAM bandwidth have positive effects on the system performance when GPU is very weak and seriously bottlenecks it? What kind of benchmarks will show benefits of decreasing memory latency in this case?
As an example I have the following build:
Ryzen 5 1600 (stock),
gt 1030,
2x8 GB DDR4 clocked at 2800 CL18
I know the GPU is weak and bottlenecks the system, but I really don't need better GPU, because I'm not a gamer and I don't do video/photo editing.
I overclocked the RAM from 2666 CL20 to 2888 CL18. But there weren't any benchmark result improvment for PCMark 10. But the latency and bandwidth benchmarks in Aida64 showed around 5% improvent. But I don't know whether this improvevent is any good for my system?
I want to know, will any further ovcerclocking this RAM give any benefits to the system performance and if the answer is yes then what kind of tasks will benefit from further overclocking RAM? and how do I meaningfully measue these improvements in benchmarks?
I'm especially interested in these kind of performances: responsiveness of the system, faster app open/load times, faster windows load times, faster calculation in CAS programs like Mathematica/Maple etc.
I'm not interested in gaming benchmarks and FPS.
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