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so you've come looking for ddr5 i'll cut you a deal

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only double retail pricing it's a steal

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for me that is

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scalpers have taken the fledgling ddr5 market hostage look around you

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everything on newegg is out of stock right now and low end 16 gig modules of

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ddr5 are being sold for as much as 32 gigs of trident z is supposed to be

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meanwhile on ebay you're looking at anywhere from 700 to a

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thousand dollars for a 32 gig kit of the good stuff we're in a bad place right

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now but there's a light a light of justice because the fact that

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ddr5 is newer and shinier doesn't mean

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i know i know we did a whole video about why

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ddr5 is super cool and it really is but it's got a lot

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working against it right now too you've got first gen RAM chips interfacing with

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first gen memory controllers over imperfectly optimized first gen trace

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layouts and it's perfectly natural to expect all this first january to take a

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while to reach its full potential i mean think about how the first playstation 2

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games ended up looking worse than the last playstation 1 games because

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developers had no idea yet how to unlock the full potential of the emotion engine

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and even in the computer memory space this is nothing new ddr2 ddr3 ddr4 if

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you look at contemporaneous reviews you'll find a lot of reports saying that

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there is no practical benefit to the upgrade and that it is certainly not

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worth the early adopter tax like look at this dork back in 2014

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the synthetic benchmark graphs show ddr4 absolutely wiping the floor with ddr3

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and raw bandwidth but when we look at the numbers in real world applications

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even this relatively low spec kit of ddr3 beats out the fastest ddr4 that was

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available at the time of course

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as we all know ddr4 like its predecessors ended up getting the last

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laugh with mid-generation refinements that led to much higher performance at

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ultimately lower costs i mean the hot item back when that video was shot was 3

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000 mega transfers per second cl 16.

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nowadays we would call that budget at best cheapo at worst and the same thing will

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eventually happen with ddr5 just

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not today unlike our new water bottles those are already proven superior and

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you can get them right now no scalping required ltdstore.com to illustrate our

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point we ran a bevy of benchmarks using our core i9 12900k paired with an rtx

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3090 this is admittedly a very high spec

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machine that not everyone will be using but it allows both of our memory

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technologies to put their best foot forward by removing system bottlenecks

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elsewhere for ddr5 we've included both the highest currently available jdx

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speed and a 5200 mega transfer per second kit which was the fastest that

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our system could handle reliably and then we've included a handful of common

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ddr4 configurations kicking things off our high-end ddr5 pulls off a

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respectable 5 lead over our fastest ddr4

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kit in f1 2021 though it should be noted that we're

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having issues running more than two sticks of the stuff at a time right now

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and the other problem is that our lower end ddr5 kit drops off significantly

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from its bigger brother in fact while the average FPS drop looks fine it

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trails even our top spec ddr4 by as much

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as 10 percent in minimum frame times and that could easily manifest as little

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hitches or stutters in your gameplay forza is a little bit kinder to our ddr5

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but the improvement offered by the high-end kit is negligible and the

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benefit over ddr4 is under 5 in both cases flight simulator's CPU

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intensive nature seems like it should be a good fit for ddr5

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but no both kits are actually consistently between one and four

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percent slower than our fast ddr4 kit

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that's surprising but not as surprising as cs go another game that's CPU heavy

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while the high end kit stays roughly equivalent with a few frames gained or

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lost depending on the metric our lower end kit is on par or worse than ddr4

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running 400 mega transfers per second lower

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save 6 for its part was more or less the same regardless with less than half a

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second separating our ddr5 from our fastest ddr4

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taken together then the gaming tests average out to about a percent win for

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the high-end kit and a two percent loss for the low-end kit compared to high-end

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ddr4 which and i cannot emphasize this

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enough costs less than half as much at

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retail and that is pre-scalper markup

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perhaps productivity will produce ddr5's proper performance potential cinebench

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sure doesn't think so it's a total wash with a measly one percent difference or

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less between our fastest ddr4 and ddr5

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kits compiling firefox though gives ddr5 its

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first major win with even the lower end kit picking up a six percent faster time

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compared to our best ddr4 and the higher end kit being nearly a minute faster

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code compilation does hit system memory pretty hard though so this isn't a huge

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surprise it's just nice to see a w for it somewhere blender meanwhile doesn't

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seem to give two hoots what kind of memory you have as long as it's lots and

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puget bench is an interesting case because every adobe app tested here gets

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the performance uplift but none of them are as dark as photoshop even our low

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end ddr5 kit is 14 faster than our high

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end ddr4 kit and that's saying a lot though this again makes sense because of

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photoshop's memory intensive layer and effects operations where the GPU isn't

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really doing a lot of the work finally we've got spec workstation where some

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ridiculously memory intensive tests come into play giving us substantial 20 and

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even 30 performance uplifts in the product development life sciences and

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energy suites so that's stuff like cad medical imaging and geological surveys

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where there's a lot of data being thrown around

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financial services and general operations meanwhile not so hot which we'd expect considering

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the lighter nature of that work and our previous results overall then

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productivity nets has a rather significant but

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kind of inconsistent five to seven percent bump in performance with ddr5

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compared to the fastest ddr4 so this is one area where depending on

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what you do ddr5 might be worth the investment although i gotta say that

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better be some pretty important work you're doing to be clear

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none of what we're saying is that ddr5 has no advantages for average gamers

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it's more power efficient for one and the nature of its more numerous but

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smaller burst buffers means that architectures that rely on responsive

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memory like ryzen may find more benefit even at these early speeds despite the

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looser timings compared to ddr4 but since a ddr5 ryzen platform doesn't

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exist yet and by the time it does both motherboard manufacturers and memory

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manufacturers might have a better idea of how to optimize their implementations

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i think it's safe to say that you shouldn't be paying a premium for it today

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leading us to the big question we need to answer here why are scalpers scalping

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it then well i think there's a big emotional component people like having

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the latest and greatest thing and i think that we in the media need to

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accept at least part of the blame for that but there's another angle to it and

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that's motherboard manufacturers all of the highest and shiniest most appealing

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motherboards are ddr5 only and now that

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there's a shortage of it it's not just as simple for them as

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plonking down some ddr4 slots in place of the ddr5 ones to improve consumer

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options trace layouts and lengths topology and

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of course the fact that the power management ic is on each ddr5 module

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rather than built into the board means that there is a non-trivial amount of

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work involved with retooling a board for ddr4

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the good news for you today is that most

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of the highest end motherboards don't really do a lot to justify the extra

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spend at least if you're not overclocking with liquid nitrogen

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as we've seen in our previous motherboard investigation down to earth

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gaming motherboards like ASUS rg strix or MSI's tomahawk series are going to

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give you performance and features very close to the bleeding edge and if

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you really must have high end Gigabyte

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actually has gone to the effort of remaking nearly their entire lineup in

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ddr4 flavors leaving only the cream of the crop out of reach we're gonna have

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some links to these down below if you're looking to build a 12th gen rig for

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today though the solution is to hoist a great big

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middle finger to scalpers by buying ddr4 while it's still relevant hopefully by

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the time you don't want it anymore the scalpers will have moved on to greener

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pastures maybe some game console they can buy or something

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actually please don't do that game consoles are one of the only ways people can get a like reasonably priced gaming

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today thanks for watching guys go check out our previous video on ddr5 for more

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info on the inner workings and just how it differs from ddr4 i promise it is

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super interesting even if you can't or at least shouldn't buy it right now