[SOLVED] Should people buy AMD 5000 series or wait for release of DDR5 type Ram

[Chiranjeet Bhattacharya]

Should people buy AMD 5000 series or wait for release of DDR5 type Ram

 

[CountMike]

Should people buy AMD 5000 series or wait for release of DDR5 type Ram

How long are you prepared to wait ? It's at least couple of years away.

 

[Chiranjeet Bhattacharya]

How long are you prepared to wait ? It's at least couple of years away.

Many peoples said it will launch in 2021

 

[CountMike]

Many peoples said it will launch in 2021

Hardly, AMD just made it and Intel is due for a shakeup and they will want to make their money on it first.Besides, DDR5 is not make it or brake it for best performance.

 

[Chiranjeet Bhattacharya]

Hardly, AMD just made it and Intel is due for a shakeup and they will want to make their money on it first.Besides, DDR5 is not make it or brake it for best performance.

So you want to say even if DDR5 will launch in 2021 we shouldn't buy it

 

[CountMike]

So you want to say even if DDR5 will launch in 2021 we shouldn't buy it

No, what I was saying is that we shouldn't wait for it just because of DDR5.
There was a talk of skipping DDR5 and jump straight to DDR6.

 

[dorsai]

In computer tech there is never much benefit for waiting for the next improvement...there will always be something better coming no matter what you buy. Upgrade when you think you'll see a noticeable improvement...5000 Ryzen will provide a noticeable improvement over 3000 series, depending on your work flow, where DDR5 is a question mark at this point.

 

[sizzling]

Also look back at prior DDR versions. When DDR3 & DDR4 first released there was no perceivable benefit over prior version. It wasn’t until it had matured that benefits were meaningful. Just upgrade when you need a new system. Unless something is releasing in the very near future and it might be better to wait but any other time there will always be something new a few months away.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

If you have the opportunity to buy the 5000 series CPUs then don’t wait you can always upgrade memory later

 

[USAFRet]

Wait. The answer is "Always wait".

There is always something new on the horizon you should wait for.
Therefore, you never buy anything. Therefore, your bank account grows and grows, because you're not spending any money.

You can retire early.

 

[gtarayan]

or wait for release of DDR5 type Ram

I would not specifically wait for DDR5. Consider when Skylake had been released with DDR4 rated at 2133. The mature DDR3 memory system yielded equal performance to the then newly released DDR4. This is pretty much the observable pattern going further down in history, Accordingly, if one were to wait to reap the fruits of DDR5, the wait should also account for an additional period of time for the platform to mature at least somewhat - otherwise you might be paying an early adopter's premium without tangible performance benefits over the mature DDR4 platform.