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this is the 8 gig stick i ordered the 16 Gigabyte kit

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the chef insists sir your chef is a fool

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because some game developers are even recommending 32 gigabytes told you this

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was the kind of place you leave hungry

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unless eight gigabytes is enough

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to find out crucial sponsored this video where we're

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going to be testing 8 and 16 Gigabyte kits in both ddr4 and ddr5 flavors to

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ensure that you are not wasting your money

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for gamers system memory or RAM plays a crucial role see what i did there

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its main job is to ensure that your CPU and for gamers using onboard graphics

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your GPU get the high speed access to

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assets that are required to run your game smoothly because the second you

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have to swap files out to an SSD or even worse a hard drive you're likely to

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encounter problems ranging from FPS drops to slower loading times to random

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hitching or stuttering but once you have enough RAM to eliminate

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these problems there's often no performance benefit to adding more

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meaning it is really easy to blow away money that could have been spent on a

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better CPU better GPU or even a faster

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rather than higher capacity RAM kit to isolate memory as our performance

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variable then we chose a top tier test bench with a core i9 CPU and an rtx

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3080ti we also tested each game at both

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1080p and 4k to see if our RAM would affect performance more or less

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depending on whether we're CPU or GPU bottlenecked as for our memory we tested

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eight gigs of ddr4 in both single and dual channel configurations and 16 gigs

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in dual channel and crucial also asked us to throw in their new ddr5 sticks

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with the black pcb that's right no unicorn vomit lighting effects on these

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boys but they're pretty sharp looking in an understated kind of way and according

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to crucial's internal testing they don't need heat spreaders so it turns out some

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of the concerns about ddr5's on dim power management requiring extra cooling

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don't apply to at least jdx spec modules

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anyway whether you like RGB or blacked out builds at the end of the day it's

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performance that counts so let's kick things off with csgo at 1080p it's our

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tried and true CPU limited game and you'll be happy to know that yes 10

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years later it will still run perfectly fine with only 8 gigs of RAM however the

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advantage of going dual channel is huge at this resolution with our single 8 gig

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stick of ddr4 performing terribly by comparison

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this advantage mostly disappeared however once we scaled up to 4k and

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adding more memory hardly made a difference at either resolution which

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makes sense given the developer calls for only two gigabytes of system memory

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curiously while our ddr5 numbers are a little lower than ddr4 we don't see the

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same massive drop in performance for dropping from dual to single channel

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what ah that's because ddr5 is already dual

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channel or sort of instead of using a single 72-bit bus on

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a dim like ddr4 with 64 bits for data

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and 8 for ecc or error correction code each ddr5 module gets two 40-bit buses

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again with eight bits on each going towards ecc

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so you still get the same total 64-bit data width but with each half of it

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operating semi-independently now some workloads like running complex

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simulations may still need at least two sticks for peak performance but for

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bandwidth light applications like games well the results kind of speak for

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themselves csgo is old though let's turn to far cry

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6 which launched late last year with a minimum requirement of 8 gigs of RAM

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specifically dual channel and a recommendation of 16 gigs

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unsurprisingly eight gigs in dual channel did perform markedly better than

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a single channel stick at 1080p but curiously this uptick applied only to

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average frame rates the far more important one percent lows were nearly

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identical between the two at either resolution doubling our memory to a 16

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gig kit however saw our lows skyrocket

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improving over 40 percent at full hd

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we saw improvements at 4k resolution as well with a 16 gig kit bringing our lows

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from 47 FPS to 61 on ddr4 these are the

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kinds of performance differences that you will feel while gaming

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Floatplane.com by the way has a great behind the scenes of alex feeling pretty

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upset about spilling water on a system and trying to fix it you can check it

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out at the link down below moving up a generation our single stick

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of ddr5 marginally outperforms our single stick of ddr4 at 1080p but then

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does slightly worse at 4k however when we add a second eight gig

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ddr5 module we see this same trend of

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increased capacity leading to better performance at both resolutions lifting

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our one percent lows by 25 percent in 1080p and 33 at 4k getting us really

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close to that magic 60fps number where most people consider animation to be

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very smooth remember though guys just because a game

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runs at an average of 60 frames per second that doesn't mean you're not

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going to notice hitching when you're hitting those one percent lows of 30 or

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40 FPS so for the smoothest experience possible you want your lows at 60 or

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even higher tiny tina's wonderland saw similar if

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lower results at 1080p with our poor sad

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single stick of ddr4 underperforming by about 18

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compared to our dual channel configuration and here again increasing

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capacity doesn't really net us improvements to our average FPS but it

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does impact our one percent lows though

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only by about five percent this time it's up to you to decide if a five

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percent gain is worth doubling up your RAM budget when we scale up to 4k though

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all three configurations of ddr4 saw nearly identical results since our CPU

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usage dropped and our GPU became the limiting factor

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what's interesting about wonderlands however is that we actually saw the best

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results with ddr5 in 1080p our single stick of ddr5 beat

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our single stick of ddr4 by 11 and doubling up improved it even more

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at 4k the story is pretty similar with our single channel ddr4 being the worst

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adding capacity beyond 8gig not really seeming to help and ddr5 being the

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absolute king for performance in this game but why though

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well wonderlands is the newest game we tested so

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it could be that newer games coming out over the next few years are going to be

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designed targeting current gen consoles which have

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much faster memory than the playstation 4 and xbox one x generation

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these newer games may be able to better take advantage of what ddr5 has to offer

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and crucial would like us to point out that with up to 87 more bandwidth than

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ddr4 at launch performance is enhanced not just during testing but in real

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world conditions and with support for xmp 3.0 we can expect to see even more

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performance out of crucials ddr5 on future platforms like AMD's upcoming am5

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and Intel's 13th gen core thanks again crucial for sponsoring this video

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and for understanding that our audience needs the whole picture which might

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include situations where your product won't have much of an impact

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total warhammer 3 saw almost identical

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performance across the board at 4k regardless of single dual channel

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capacity and even the generation of memory then at 1080p improvements to our

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hardware yielded only minimal performance uplifts meaning that if you

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only play tw3 you could just pick up a wan hoodie from ltdstore.com instead

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check them out at the link below because we've got lots in stock finally

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back to our results assassin's creed valhalla saw clear improvements going

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from single to dual channel as expected but increasing capacity only seemed to

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help ddr5 and not by much regardless of

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resolution now unfortunately because every game is

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developed so differently even if you're looking at two titles that use the same

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engine it's hard to say whether or not upgrading your memory capacity will

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improve your gaming experience we've known for years that dual channel at the

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bare minimum is the way to go and that's still crystal clear here but unless

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you're playing newer games that actually take advantage of more memory you're

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probably better off buying a faster dual channel configuration and dumping any

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extra you have left over into your CPU GPU combo now to be clear there are

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games out there now that will utilize more than 8 gigs of RAM but if you're

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not playing the newest aaa titles it may not be worth the upgrade for you

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yet if you want to be ready though we're gonna have all the products we use today

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linked in the video description below thanks for watching guys if you enjoyed

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this video make sure to check out some of our other RAM videos like that time

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we tested mixed memory modules with mixed results