Ryzen 7000 Series - Is Faster Memory BETTER?? [5200MHz Vs 6000MHz]

AMD have claimed that 6000MHz is the "sweet spot" for gaming but does paying extra for 6000MHz memory over a slower kit really make that much of a difference on these new processors or even Intel Alder Lake processors for that matter? Well, that's what we're going to find out!

Memory Kits Used:
Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR5 RGB 5200MHz (2x16GB) 36-38-38-74 1.25v
G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo 6000MHz (2x16GB) 30-38-38-96 1.35v

00:00 Introduction
01:29 6000 MHz Memory
03:25 Test Bench
04:30 Super PI
04:47 wPrime
05:10 7-Zip
05:32 AIDA64
06:52 Blender
07:04 Cinebench R23
07:23 Corona 1.3
08:05 Keyshot Viewer
08:26 V-Ray
08:51 3DMark FireStrike & TimeSpy
09:42 Geekbench 5
10:30 PCMark 10 Express
11:00 Web Benchmarks
11:49 Assassin's Creed Valhalla
12:07 Cyberpunk 2077
12:26 F1 22
12:52 FarCry 6
13:06 Forza Horizon 5
13:19 Horizon Zero Dawn
13:40 Microsoft Flight Simulator
14:01 Red Dead Redemption 2
14:18 Shadow of the Tomb Raider
14:36 Watch Dogs Legion
14:56 Supposed Sweet Spot
15:51 Overall Average FPS
16:20 Results
17:22 Cost Per Frame
18:02 Final Thoughts
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Memory kits used:

Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR5 RGB 5200MHz (2x16GB) 36-38-38-74 1.25v
G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo 6000MHz (2x16GB) 30-38-38-96 1.35v

[killerrf]

Good video.
I always wanted to see differences in a system where only ram speed is the difference.
Start at 4800, 5600, 6000, 6400, 6800, 7200, 7400 strictly for gaming

[harryhalfmoon]

Very detailed test. Impressive. Thank you & commenting for the algorithm.

[producedagains]

Great work. Extensive testing. Really appreciate it! Got you a new subscriber

[gscurd]

Nice to see such little difference even with pretty substantial difference in not only speed but timings as well. Ended up getting 5600 28-34-34-89 for 10 bucks less than the 6000 kit you tested but with slightly better latency so there shouldn't be much difference.

[WilReid]

You really need more data points per CPU to say whether something is a sweet spot or not. You especially need to compare 6000 vs something higher to see if the returns are entirely diminished for that particular CPU. There's nothing at all wrong with testing with 5200 MT/s DDR5, since that's what AMD itself has said is the maximum memory speed officially supported by these CPUs. I think it'd be worth comparing 3600 MT/s as well since that's the officially support max speed for a max capacity configuration.

[thelegitimatenoob]

Would love to see the 6000 expo kits vs faster xmp kits like 6400 or 6600 with looser timings to see what kind of impact the additional options on expo actually bring.

[DerekDavis]

6000/5200 is about 15% faster, all else being equal.

Of course modern processors spend most of their time in ultra-fast L1, L2, and L3 caches, so faster main memory makes *little* *difference* .

[oopsydaisy]

I was surprised by the small gains for 800MT/s. Thankfully the RAM I bought (6000) was only £7 more than the 5200 speed memory :)

[Totto]

Those are some very inconsistent results you got. Some make no sense, especially in the gaming tests. In some cases the stronger CPU was losing performance with the faster ram, while the weaker one was gaining performance from the faster ram. You should probably check your settings and probably system stability (maybe background processes, OS settings).
Also, you didn't list the specs of the ram kits (latency, etc.). Showing them on screen for a couple of seconds would have been helpful and informative.
On the Cost Per Frame chart, the bars should be presented primarily to reflect the average framerates with the cost per frame as secondary scale (kinda like Hardware Unboxed do it). That way it paints a more complete/precise picture of the relation between performance and cost. Your presentation would always put the most expensive thing at the top, which is not very useful information.

[madd]

Amazing content. I was really looking for a video like this.

[WSS_the_OG]

Wish I could have given you two thumbs up, one for the video itself, and one for the hilarious monitor ad!

[clearlight]

Given that the 6000MHz kit is CL30 vs CL36 on the 5200MHz with the IF still topping out at 2000MHz on Zen 4, how much of the performance gain for the 6000MHz kit is actually from the lower latency of the kit and not the higher bandiwdth? I would test a 5600MHz CL28 kit vs a 6600MHz CL32-34 one to see if Zen 4 benefits more from lower latency or higher bandwidth.

[ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking]

do you still have the dead RTX 3090? I'd like to take a look at what killed it.

[uggZymoroon]

I currently have the, ,I NEED THE TECHNICALLY BETTER COMPONENT'' illness and I love to come to these videos to just calm me down. I have 2 sticks of 5200mhz for a ryzne 9 7950x for 4K gaming and I'm glad to see that it really doesn't matter if my ram was 800mhz faster...

[finestPlugins]

One thing to remember is that higher speed memory also runs on higher voltage which will increase power use, especially on idle.

[TheSocialGamer]

This is the same thing all over again where all of the YouTubers tested Ryzen 2000, 3000 and 5000 with 3600MHz DDR4 and in the end you might get like 1-2% gain with faster than 3600MHz RAM. So this will be the same just use 6000 MHz DDR5 and stop thinking about it.

[jon-egbe]

Seems like 5200mhz would be perfectly fine for ryzen 7000's

[Hombremaniac]

Great vid! Many people are thinking about saving some money, when buying AM5, and some might think about getting slower&cheaper RAM.

[franks]

The AMD motherboards all have been getting BIOS updates since launch to improve memory stability and compatibility. I think results would definitely be different if tested today