is 32 gigs of fast ddr4 better than 64 gigs of slow ddr4?

[David_24]

is 32 gigs of fast ddr4 better than 64 gigs of slow ddr4?

 

[Suiton20]

You will only notice the difference if you are using integrated graphics. Other than that it might make a couple second difference in photoshop, but you wont notice that. So in short, it is pretty much the same performance

 

[kawininjazx]

The fast memory would be better because I doubt you would use more than 32gb of ram.

 

[kanewolf]

Unless you have a lot of VMs it will be difficult to utilize 64GB RAM. A typical quad core is over matched by 64GB RAM also. More than 8GB/core is difficult to utilize.

 

[martinch]

is 32 gigs of fast ddr4 better than 64 gigs of slow ddr4?

If you're using more than 32GB of RAM, then the 64GB option will be better as you won't be paging, otherwise the faster RAM should be better. Note that you will only really see a performance benefit from faster RAM when in memory-intensive operations, e.g. file compression (assuming you're not I/O limited), image processing (would need to be large images), video editing, running multiple VMs, (large) data set comparisons, scientific simulations, etc

You will only notice the difference if you are using integrated graphics. Other than that it might make a couple second difference in photoshop, but you wont notice that.

For some tasks, there's little-to-no difference, but for others it's quite noticeable. Have a look at AnandTech's article on RAM scaling - the difference on file compression was ~30% (50s), simply by going to faster RAM, which is noticeable.

 

[David_24]

is 32 gigs of fast ddr4 better than 64 gigs of slow ddr4?

If you're using more than 32GB of RAM, then the 64GB option will be better as you won't be paging, otherwise the faster RAM should be better. Note that you will only really see a performance benefit from faster RAM when in memory-intensive operations, e.g. file compression (assuming you're not I/O limited), image processing (would need to be large images), video editing, running multiple VMs, (large) data set comparisons, scientific simulations, etc

It's for video game design I should have mentioned.

 

[kanewolf]

is 32 gigs of fast ddr4 better than 64 gigs of slow ddr4?

If you're using more than 32GB of RAM, then the 64GB option will be better as you won't be paging, otherwise the faster RAM should be better. Note that you will only really see a performance benefit from faster RAM when in memory-intensive operations, e.g. file compression (assuming you're not I/O limited), image processing (would need to be large images), video editing, running multiple VMs, (large) data set comparisons, scientific simulations, etc

It's for video game design I should have mentioned.

That doesn't really quantify the amount of RAM required. Code development could be done with 8GB. Graphic arts design might benefit from 16GB. Multiple VMs runing to simulate loading on a game server would benefit from more RAM. I don't think you have defined your requirement well enough to make a definite recommendation.

 

[David_24]

is 32 gigs of fast ddr4 better than 64 gigs of slow ddr4?

If you're using more than 32GB of RAM, then the 64GB option will be better as you won't be paging, otherwise the faster RAM should be better. Note that you will only really see a performance benefit from faster RAM when in memory-intensive operations, e.g. file compression (assuming you're not I/O limited), image processing (would need to be large images), video editing, running multiple VMs, (large) data set comparisons, scientific simulations, etc

It's for video game design I should have mentioned.

That doesn't really quantify the amount of RAM required. Code development could be done with 8GB. Graphic arts design might benefit from 16GB. Multiple VMs runing to simulate loading on a game server would benefit from more RAM. I don't think you have defined your requirement well enough to make a definite recommendation.

I'm going into a three year college program for video game design and I can do assignments at home. Here's the software we'll be using. Should I get 16 or 32 gigs of ddr4? Some people told me to get medium fast ram.

Adobe CC

· Photoshop

· Illustrator

· After Effects

· Flash



Autodesk Entertainment Suite

· 3DS Max

· Maya

· Mudbox

· Motion Builder



ZBrush



Unity 3D



Unreal Engine

 

[Tradesman1]

I'd go 32GB, dis you have another thread on this with Skylake i7 mentioned? If so don't start multiple threads