HardwarePal : It seems that DDR4 isn’t as far away as we thought . According to Crucial Memory’s promo page it’s going to come out late 2013. There is just one month left till the years end. So that being said, we are going to have DDR4 in our PC’s hopefully by next month.
Previously, the speed of DDR4-4600MHz was only achievable under extreme overclocking with liquid nitrogen cooling
$500 a kit... It's crazy what people will pay. I understand for professional work, but for gaming and other stuff, it's a total waste.
well I am assuming that not all motherboards will support that high speed, so you might need a new one to take advantage. Personally I find the gains going above 3000Mhz to be minimal at best. Especially for the added cost.
3600mhz seems to be the tapering off point from what I've seen. From 2666 to 3600 there's as much as 10-15%(game dependent) with a 7700k and a 1080ti.
Don't forget you can also over RAM by a fair bit. I have 3600 overclocked to 4000 - all I had to do was choose the XMP profile and up the DRAM voltage to 1.38.
yeah, that's fair enough. I need to get some higher clocked ram as I believe mine is only like 2666 with the XMP profile on.
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Which means GDDR 6 probably isnt far away either.
So what's better to get? DDR4 or GDDR6?
I won't be upgrading just yet. I'll wait about a year or so and then get a new Motherboard + new RAM and maybe a new graphics card with GDDR6.
Peoplezz pls dont confuse the two.
DDR AND GDDR are different. Not completely different but GDDR offloads graphics work from DDR and also a few other differences. PC's need both basically. For now atleast.
Reason for two different is to have them function differently for different tasks. Graphics intensive tasks use GDDR(games etc) most other things uses DDR.PC's use this to split between os use, os apps, games etc. MS might be right about one thing, PS4 may run too hot or run into issues with having a whole set of GDDR(only memory constantly in use) instead of any ddr/gddr combo.
DD3(for cpu because of cache etc) and GDDR5(for GPU only) is today's standard.
PC will soon adapt the next DDR4 and GDDR6.
A new MB must be purchased also. FAIL!