Excellent price
Tom's review
MD32GK2D4320016XR
XMP 3200 CL16-18-18-36 @1.35V
Specs
The body of your deal is too short. You need at least 10 words.
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unlikely, lately most manufacturers started to use 16Gbit die in order to use less chip hence cheaper price. (cheaper per GB + Less soldering)
They still occasionally use 8Gbit dies (which will form dual rank in 16G per stick configuration), to get rid of their old stock.
Tom's review shows dual rank in cpu-z, but that was from 2 years ago.
So yeah, I guess that would be old stock by now…
I'm looking to build a PC based on the Ryzen 5600 CPU and from what I've read, the 3600MHz DDR4 RAMs are a better match for it. However, I noticed quite a few deals on 3200MHz DDR4 RAMs recently and am wondering if the price difference is worth the downgrade in performance?
Yes, this is a good deal if you need the 32gb, the performance difference won't be much for such an increase in price.
If the 3600 one you talked about is CL18, then you won't notice any difference in performance.
If the 3600 one you talked about is CL18, then you won't notice any difference in performance.
this is wrong
3600c18 have the SAME latency as 3200c16 nanosecond wise, which (I guess) is where you get out that the performance is the same (which is wrong).
memory clocked at 3600 has higher bandwidth/memory thruput, and comes with the same latency as 3200c16
Intel's memory controller frequency itself make little to no difference to performance, though you do gain some performance at memory thruput.
let alone AMD sync Memory Frequency -to- Memory Controller Frequency -to- FCLK frequency. (MCLK:UCLK:FCLK = 1:1:1), and higher FCLK the better performance.
Higher bandwidth at the same latency is a gain of course, Intel or AMD.
However, the gain is small enough that I specifically said OP won't notice any difference in day to day use. If they asked that question, they probably won't care.
@ChubbyMastiff: 200Mhz gain on FCLK is not something "won't notice"
Obviously if you never have comparison a lot of thing is "won't notice"
If you're only buying a 5600, concerns about 3200 vs 3600mhz RAM are overblown. Only something worth thinking about if you are running a 5900X or higher and doing lots of memory-intensive tasks. In any event, this kit will likely work at 3600/CL18 anyway, if you really wanted the fast speed.
Make sure you pick a tested ram kit for your motherboard or you may have a tough time getting it to run at 3200/3600. Check your mobo site for a full list of tested ram kits, or you can try https://pangoly.com/en/ and how to pangoly.
The performance difference is ~3% & that is only for specific workloads. Not worth it if there is a significant price difference.
Your GPU is more likely to be a limiting factor for gaming anyway.
in the most [not-memory-bounded cpu] 5800x3d, you'd still see performance uplift as memory speed increases. Source
Please show the source of where your 3% number figure come from, under what configuration at what resolution using which game, otherwise I would call your figure non-sense.
5600x, game frame rate differential. On my own machine & a couple of review websites I remember reading a while back had similar results.
That enough detail for you professor pedant?
I feel like you are just embarrassing yourself at this stage.
That’s some ugly looking ram
Are these dual rank? I think they are but not 100% sure