AMD Ryzen 7 Memory And Tweaking Analysis review
Click here to post a comment for AMD Ryzen 7 Memory And Tweaking Analysis review on our message forum
H83
Very nice article! It´s crazy the performance Ryzen gains by using faster memory. But paying more than 200€ for 16Gb of RAM seems too steep, at least for me.
Hilbert, rergarding Vega, do you any info about a possible release date?
schmidtbag
So it seems for 1080p games, you get roughly 1FPS for every 100-200Mhz you go up. Not bad.
I wonder if the performance impact is greater on the lower-core systems, since they'll be less starved for bandwidth.
Arbie
Thanks for this unique piece of work... haven't seen any such analysis elsewhere and the results were surprising. I didn't expect memory bandwidth to have nearly such a large effect on apps and especially on games. Very good to know when thinking where to allocate the cash.
Hilbert Hagedoorn
Administrator
PrMinisterGR
The Linux driver has been submitted, so it shouldn't be very long now.
H83
Valken
Great article. Wish you can consider adding ARMA 3 and Fallout to your reviews in the future since those are also cpu bound games in lower resolution and those gamers need all the IPC + MHZ it can get.
When Vega comes out, I want to see Crysis 3 for old times sake since that game scales with cores, IPC and MHZ!
For me, it is a no brainer. Ryzen 1700 + FAST expensive ram is a better buy than a 1800x or 1700x cpu as the faster ram allows the cpu to run at its maximum.
I got my current RAM JUST for ARMA 3 alone and it made back all that money spend by enjoying the game instead of hating the single core performance.
schmidtbag
Ricepudding
It is nice to see a great benefit from the higher ram frequencies however how much would the CL14/16 matter on these, i noticed the lower ram was all CL16 while the higher ram was CL14, not to sure how much of a difference this would make if any and maybe the results could have been a little different?
I've also heard from other people that keeping ram at 3200 or above can be difficult in the long term, specially to people who want to use there pc 8+ hours a day at this setting.
This also makes the whole AMD is cheaper thing a little mute 😏when you have to spend around 200 extra to get the fast ram and still fall short vs the intel front. Though some drivers in games seem to be helping which is awesome
H83
Zeblote
There's still something wrong with the memory latency... why is it almost double that of mine (~47ns)? I'm using 3000Mhz cl15, which should be slower, not faster.
schmidtbag
Loophole35
H83
I´m suggesting this because i always overclock my RAM and never had problems with. Of course my experience is limited because i´m on my second or third rig but so far i had no problems.
For example, i´m already "playing" with my new system and i already managed to OC my cpu to 5Ghz and my RAM from 2800Mhz to 3200Mhz and just by changing a few BIOS settings... As for total stability, i still didn´t have time to test it.
This way Ryzen buyers could have some more performance without having to buy RAM at stupid prices.
schmidtbag
H83
eclap
H83
schmidtbag
Noisiv