Best RAM Ryzen 5000. Best Memory for Ryzen 5600X, 5800X, 5900X, 5950X

So, you're building a Ryzen

5000

system but you're still confused about

memory

, what's better for performance, faster speed, lower latency, what about two devices versus four and six? How much more performance can you expect from better

memory

? Does it make sense to spend money to upgrade your memory or should you invest in upgrading another component, don't worry, we will look at all of this in a very simple and easy to understand way and give you very specific recommendations for every budget. The level is rising Hello, welcome back to PC Builder. I'm Jason. The Ryzen

5000

platform is undoubtedly the

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in terms of gaming and workstation performance right now and we have made several videos to support Ryzen 5000 builds, including the

best

Verizon 5000 motherboards, best coolers for

ryzen

5000, a Ryzen

5600x

gaming version and a Ryzen

5900x

4K gaming 4K video editing workstation version.

If you missed any of that coverage, I'll put it right there on the card, there it goes and you can check it out. after this video, because this video is the most requested video I have received, what is the best memory for Ryzen 5000, now I understand that memory is very confusing, it does not matter if it is Ryzen 5000, Intel memory of Ryzen 3000 is difficult to understand, so let's break this down in a very simple and easy to understand way, as brief as possible to make sure that you leave this video understanding exactly what type of memory you need to get for your build, of course, that's the goal of this . channel we are a new channel, it is to eliminate all the technical verbiage, shred it and give you the best performance price on your builds.

If that's something you want to support, like the video, subscribe and click the bell icon, it's absolute. free for you to support the channel and get amazing content. I hope it's amazing. Let's jump into it very briefly, we will go over the two devices versus the four memory devices that Nexus gamers first reported on when Ryzen 5000. launched, it is a very deep topic, so today we will focus on giving you a functional understanding, You only want to buy a memory kit, not design them, and if you want to know more, I will include links in the description to some. videos that do a deeper dive, so first of all, this has to do with single range versus dual range, not single channel versus dual channel, that's a very different thing, so memory range has to do with how many paths the data can traverse at once, e.g. all of them.

Modern eight gigabyte memory cards are single-sided, which means that if you remove the heatsink and look at the card, you will see chips on one side of the PCB and the back of the bank will be blank, so which with only one way to go, these are, you guessed it, 16 gigabyte and larger single rank memory drives, almost all of them are double sided, they are for their dual rank drives, there are a handful of single range memory of 16 gigabytes or more, don't worry that you won't end up buying one now in terms of performance. Dual rank modules have always achieved slightly higher performance than single rank modules.

The Ryzen 5000 platform has shown a greater advantage for dual-range versus single-range than previous platforms, whether Ryzen or Intel, generally. produces an average performance increase of about three to five percent, but in some memory-sensitive applications it could be up to 10 percent, so how do you get dual range? So you're either going to get two memory drives that are already dual range and that's all you need or you're going to get four single range devices and together they're going to work as if they were dual range which means it's realistic to get dual range at 32 gigs. of memory or more like eight gigabyte chips have a single rating, so if you want 16 gigabytes and you get two eight gigabyte chips, those are still, excuse me, devices that still have a single rank and the four gigabyte devices just exit the market, so don't even do it.

Even try looking for four or four gigabyte sticks, they're gone, so if you want to take advantage of this, you'll get two 16 gigabyte or larger devices again, or you'll get four eight gigabyte devices, it's that simple. Now it's time to talk about whether or not you'll actually see a performance boost from faster memory and lower latency memory, and then we'll look at what memory specifically you're going to want. Well I have aggregated data from several from different sources on the web technology yes the city made an optimal technology made a uh gamers nexus did some things uh hardware canucks just did it anyway I have taken data from all over the web I will give them credit on the description below and I will include links to all of his videos and I would highly recommend him if you want to learn more about this check him out.

What I've done is aggregated your data to see what kind of performance increases. were talking about now, it is important to note that in workstation applications we are talking about between three and five percent, this is because the main bottleneck in those where memory is important for a application, some applications don't care about memory speed at all. that's the only bottleneck, it's the CPU, the graphics card is not involved, games are very different in games, you need your CPU to only be as good as it can max out your graphics card, Ryzen 5000 is already quite a platform advanced, so for the current generation of graphics cards and previous generations, I am talking about the amd uh 5000 series and the nvidia 2000 series for the previous generation graphics cards, forget it, you don't need faster memory, you can get away with yours with ddr4 3200 cl 16 memory and get almost all frames out of your graphics card, so this also only refers to graphics cards that try to output large amounts of frame rates usually at 1080p performance, so that these are situations in which it will be linked to the CPU, not the GPU, if you increase the resolution to 1440p or 4k forget it, the memory stops mattering because the bottleneck is not the CPU and the memory, the bottleneck bottle is the graphics card so this is actually for gaming there's only a very narrow window where it really matters what kind of memory you need to get and that's if you're playing 1080p super high frame rate games with a card 3080 or higher graphics card or an amd 6800 will matter at all, and when it does matter, it only matters about three to seven percent again at 1080p just to underline the part of gaming performance I want to show you. a little bit of the technical article that Steve from Hardware and Box wrote so you can see it here.

We're watching Shadow of the Tomb Raider again. We're talking about 1080p gaming. You are using an RTX 3090 and the differences you see. ddr4 3200 cl 16 right here gets 170 fps for the best tuning memory, which ended up being ddr4 uh 3800 cl 16. This is a manual tune, it got 179 fps, that's a difference of 9 fps, so five and a half percent using rtx 3090 at 1080p. games on a 30 90 at 1080p, that would be a 1440p card, so if you look at slightly lower performance, not slightly lower, if you look at a lower performing graphics card, like a 2070, for example, you'll see that the frame rates They are practically identical until the end in Hitman 2, no matter what you get here, Shadow the Tomb Raider, they are all the same.

Shadow the Tomb Raider at 1440p, they are all the same. I just want to stress if you are a gamer. The only difference you're really going to see and it's going to be a couple of percent, three to five percent is if you're using one of these super high-end graphics cards and you're playing at 1080p, then what's happening there is you. We are creating a bottleneck on the CPU instead of the GPU once you increase the resolution or if you have a less powerful graphics card, the GPU becomes your bottleneck and then the memory speed does not matter anymore because Ryzen 5000 is a very powerful platform.

You can already get a lot out of your graphics card without having to have super tuned memory, so I just want to emphasize that point by showing some graphics here, what are the technical limitations you might run into when purchasing the number one highest speed memory if If you're on an older b450 or x470 platform and you're just getting those BIOS updates and can't wait to install your Ryzen 5000 CPU, don't think you can necessarily run some of this higher speed memory at the advertised speeds. You may have to reduce it, so it may not make any sense for you to go out and buy ddr4 4000 memory.

When you need to unlock it to 3600, anyway, save the money, go out and buy a 3600 kit, but look. what your motherboard will be able to support secondly this is for everyone the infinite fabric for

ryzen

5000. If you look at the memory topologies we have here you plug everything in think of it that way and the infinite fabric can run at a max clock of 2000 megahertz, which translates to 4000 megahertz of transfer memory, so when we say dr4, that's double data rate memory, ddr4 4000, that memory runs at 2000 megahertz times 2, that's 4000. that's right as we get to 2000 megahertz where in reality, that is the clock that is running at the speed of 4000 that we often refer to.

I won't bore you with the details on that, but you need that infinite cloth and your memory to run at that same speed, so right now. For some reason, even with the latest BIOS updates, people are having a hard time reaching two thousand megahertz on the infinite fabric, so they can't run the dr4 4000 memory at a one-to-one ratio right now, so what are turning down the clock. your memory, if you're going to slow down your memory you might as well buy cheaper memory in the first place, so that's just another thing to think about. I hope Amd fixes this at some point, however they just have.

It is not like that yet and we are already a couple of months away from the launch. Now let's think about what are the actual memory recommendations that we are going to make. Well, let's consider the memory market now because this is probably where most of the actually you're going to have to make a decision because you have something called a budget and whatever you spend on your memory, maybe you can squeeze it in, you know, maybe You can increase your budget a little. um, there are probably three types of people, and there are some people who are just going to spend whatever it takes because they have the money and they're dedicated to it, then there are people who are a little bit more in the middle and those people who you know aren't They care about stretching their budget a little. a little bit if it's going to give them some performance and then there are people who, if they're going to spend more money on memory, it's going to come from something else in the system, their budget isn't really fungible, so Of course, you have all the people that they're just watching this video for fun or they're just thinking about building right now and they're not even considering their budget, but let's consider the budget if you want that three or five percent. which we have been talking about and you have no objection to spending whatever is necessary.

The ddr4 4000 cl 16 memory is available with dual range, which means a 32 gigabyte kit by 270. In fact, I will review the kits themselves, there will be links down. In the description, you don't need to write all this. I'll list all the times and speeds with the links themselves, but let's take a look at the overall cost, so assuming our system is going to work. It costs about fifteen hundred dollars now if your system costs more adjustment if we assume that this is a fifteen hundred dollar system because we are putting a 380 in it you maybe we have a ryzen 5600 x which is 11 the difference between ddr4 3200 at that same speed , uh cl16, excuse me, and the 4000 speed memory, which costs 160 dollars, so eleven percent of our overall system, will simply go to increasing that memory for that three to five percent, well, what could do with 160 dollars?

Again, if you have an unlimited budget this doesn't matter to you, but for people who are more in the middle or at the end of this, they could get a better graphics card, they could go from a 30 60 ti to a 30 70. You'll be able to stretch from a 30 70 to a 30 80. You might be able to stretch from a 30 70 to a you know, uh rx 6800 xt. Consider what you could get rather than what you could get more of. storage, you might be able to get a better case, you might be able to add a bunch of cool rgb to it, so consider the size increase again three to five percent with the cost size.

Now let's go over these kits and I. It's going to break the bank, I'll review every kit and make recommendations for every budget level, so let's start with you, the three percent, who just got the money you're on.Dedicated to get the best, you don't care, uh. In terms of price-performance, you only want one period of performance, here is 16 gigabytes g skills rip jaws ddr4 4000 cl 16 on newegg 134 for 16 gigabytes. Now remember you're not going to get this as dual range so if you want dual range you're going to need to jump in now you can go ahead and buy two of these kits which would be 168 or you can buy that would give you 48 gigabytes or you can buy this kit which is two 16 gigabytes for 270 to me that's more money than I'd like to spend on memory and I think that's probably the case, but again, this is for three percent, now let's jump down to the kind of mid-range people who might be thinking. on stretching your budget a little bit to get a little bit of performance ddr4 memory 3600 cl 16 now this is a 32 gigabyte kit because again we're going to get the dual channel on this excuse the dual uh the dual range see how easy it is for 160 155 dollars here, that's not a bad price at all for 32 gigs at this speed with this latency and because it's much better memory you might even be able to squeeze these times even tighter again, we're just talking about getting rid of something in your stock for those of you who are going to adjust the timings, the better your memory, the easier it will be to do similarly if you don't, if that's a little too rich for your blood, but you still want to get a memory a little faster.

You can get a kit closer to the ddr4 3600 cl18 and you may be able to adjust these timings up to cl 16 for only $120 so you can see as you go down. Frankly, they are going less and less for those of you who just want the base level of performance and don't really mind stretching your budget, you just have to reach for something that feels good to you, maybe I should spend the money on my graphics card instead. There is absolutely nothing wrong with getting a 16 or 32 gigabyte kit that is ddr4 3200 cl 16, like the kit I'm seeing here on Amazon for $110 for 32 gigs of memory, that's a great price. a bunch of different colors, this is the equipment group module and again, if you only want 16 gigs of memory at the same speed, 60 bucks is all you need.

Here's a Team Force Vulcan. I never know how to tell these people. I know it's supposed to. to be yolo, i always read it as oloy, i can't help it so i will list them, but i would say the sweet spot is for people who are on a very limited budget, don't think twice before purchasing ddr4 3200 cl 16 memory. 16 gigs or 32 gigs aren't going to see much of a difference spending the money elsewhere for those of you who are already spending the money elsewhere and don't mind spending another you know three to five percent of your overall budget on the memory to get maybe a little less performance than the ddr4 3600 cl 16 and for those of you who just don't care about the budget, got the money for the ddr4 4000 memory, you may have some challenges. getting the times, but I'm going to understand, I'm assuming you're also buying a very good motherboard where you won't have any of those issues, so that's probably where you'll want to end up and again links to all of these will be down in the description, that is the video, if you found it useful, remember to like it and of course if you enjoy this type of content and want to support it, we are a new channel, remember to do so.

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