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Do you use DDR5 or DDR4 Memory?

Do you use DDR5 or DDR4 Memory?

  • DDR5

    Votes: 11,668 32.5%

  • DDR4

    Votes: 20,915 58.2%

  • DDR3

    Votes: 3,356 9.3%
  • Total voters
    35,939
  • Poll closed .
W1zzard

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With DDR5 becoming more and more mainstream and prices coming down, we were wondering how many of your are on a DDR5 platform already?
 
DDR4, still using the same kit with my 5700X that I got for my 6700K :)
 
All three, my NAS is using 16GB of DDR3. My laptop and old PC is running 32GB and 16GB of DDR4. Then, my main desktop is running 64GB of DDR5.
 
W1zzard said:
With DDR5 becoming more and more mainstream and prices coming down, we were wondering how many of your are on a DDR5 platform already?
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waiting for my new AM5 build components. Just got a good deal to exchange 13100F with 32 GB DDR4 for Ryzen 8500G with 15 GB DDR5 6000.36. For some time I'll stay with it, later probably change to 32 GB, but I don't need 32 GB always, I just like it "for the comfort". 24 is my sweet spot to be honest, but I don't want mixed set so gotta be 2x16 later.
 
Upgrading from 3700X to 5800X3D, instead of waiting and going for an all in upgrade to AM5, meant that I had to stick with the AM4 and DDR4 for quite long.
Back then there was no significant difference in performance between DDR4 or DDR5 while using an Intel 12 series CPU.
Now, there are some games that can take advantage of the faster DDR5 memory.
 
I'm running DDR4.
 
As I have capable machines with DDR4, I'll probably hold off on DDR5 until the gen following this year's new CPU releases. I also use DDR3 machines on a weekly basis.

Wait, crap. I have a DDR5 MiniPC but DDR4 gets the most use.
 
When I made the switch to LGA 1700 after the launch of the 12100F in early 2022 DDR 5 was way too expensive for me + I've still had 2x8 GB of DDR 4 from my previous system so I've went with a DDR 4 mobo.
I've upgraded to to 4x8 last year cause why not/it was cheap enough and I think I'm not switching to DDR 5 until my full new next build which wont happen anytime soon. 'years most likely'
That and for my use case even my bog standard DDR 4 is fast enough. 'I'm mainly bottlenecked by my GPU anyway:oops:'
 
Voted for DDR4.
I've been through 3 generations with DDR4 and CPUs 2600X, 3700X and 5700X. Looking to get hands on DDR5 with 9700X at a proper time.
DDR4 has lived quite long, so has socket AM4. Perfect match.
 
Voted DDR4 since my main system uses it.

My server uses DDR3 (ECC), my main laptop uses DDR5.
 
Will be on DDR5 before the end of the year. Since Ryzen 9000 chips are delayed. I probably wont see the big discounts I was hoping for.
 
I will only move to DDR5 if i can put 128GB or 256GB stick on a mini board or a board that supports 2 regular dims and someone releases 64x2 or 128x2. I want to move away from bulky full tower. Anyone know of a 64x2 or 128x2 6000+hz ram ? All i could find is 4800 something meant for servers.
 
DDR4 main
DDR3 rack
DDR2 SFF

Started utilizing DDR2 a few years ago and it just kinda stuck.
When I need a server with more than 2GB for this and that, the rack spins up.
Everything else goes to my DDR4 box.

I still feel zero interest in anything DDR5. Until there's a breakthrough moment with batches and boards, it's a complete waste of time.
 
DaemonForce said:
I still feel zero interest in anything DDR5. Until there's a breakthrough moment with batches and boards, it's a complete waste of time.
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DDR5 was quite underwhelming at base frequency, and it's a shame that it started to run into physics limits that is beginning to necessitate exotics like the CAMM2.

Personal benchmark on DDR5-4800/Zen 4 showed zero advancement of real-world memory bandwidth over DDR4-3200/Zen 3, though that might have more to do with the CPU's design.

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For me, it's DDR5 for main desktop, DDR4 for main home laptop, and LPDDR3 for main work laptop.

Maybe it should have been multiple-choice. ;)
 
JWNoctis said:
DDR5 was quite underwhelming at base frequency, and it's a shame that it started to run into physics limits that is beginning to necessitate exotics like the CAMM2.

Personal benchmark on DDR5-4800/Zen 4 showed zero advancement of real-world memory bandwidth over DDR4-3200/Zen 3, though that might have more to do with the CPU's design.

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For me, it's DDR5 for main desktop, DDR4 for main home laptop, and LPDDR3 for main work laptop.

Maybe it should have been multiple-choice. ;)
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This occurs with every DDR generation, to be honest. JEDEC base spec for each generation is usually at or just slightly above the highest tier of the previous generation's lifetime with a tradeoff in latency.

DDR-400 > DDR2-667 (DDR1 has extremely low CAS latencies, often 2 or even 1 cycle)
DDR2-1066 > DDR3-1066 (DDR2-1200 kits existed and tended to outperform DDR3-1333 kits on socket 775/AM3 platforms)
DDR3-2133 > DDR4-2400 (highest-spec DDR3 didn't leave anything to be desired against base DDR4)
DDR4-4000 > DDR5-4800 (DDR4 scaled well into the 4000s range, and DDR5 despite high throughput has very high timing clocks to compensate)

In addition, the bandwidth provided by high-speed DDR4 can already be considered to be enormous and more than enough for the vast majority of desktop computing workloads, plus the advent of large-cache CPUs cushioned that impact a LOT. It's still too early to say since DDR5 is still new and DDR4 has remained prevalent, but D5 can now achieve 6400 MT/s and beyond on high-end systems, my best guess is that D6 will likely start at least at 6400-8000 MT/s range and eventually reach about double of that.
 
I'm actually using all of them. DDR5 in my main rig, DDR4 in the living room system and DDR3 in the bedroom HTPC.
 
My fastest PC at home uses DDR4, so yeah, I voted for DDR4.

But the truth is that I run all types of memory from DDR1 to DDR4. My retro gaming machine circa year 2004 runs DDR1, my notebook is on DDR3 and I am typing this on a Phenom X3 8450 system with DDR2 which I put together for the fun of it and the good old times.

In my opinion the truth is that unless you do some heavy duty work such as rendering, engineering work, gaming etc. you won't see much of a difference. Even DDR2 is fine for office and Internet work and even some old games. My PC at work runs DDR4 and my co-worker next to me is on DDR5 but he isn't doing his job faster than me because the slowest thing when using a PC is the human being in front of it.
 
2x32GB DDR6000 CL36 @ CL30

2x16 would've been enough but it was not a bad deal
 
DDR5 here (I do own systems using other memory standards, but I assume the question is about the main PC)
 
I recently upgraded all my computers so I’m all DDR5 now:

Wife’s MBA M3 DDR5
Gaming rig 7700X DDR5
Work laptop ROG Zephyrus 7940HS DDR5
 
Still clinging on to my AM4 platform. Will probably do so for another year or two. For that very reason I bought a 5700X3D, so the 4080 I treated myself to at the beginning of the year doesn't go completely to waste.
 
Using a chip and platform that supports DDR5, but am using DDR4. At the time of the upgrade cost was a sensitive factor. Keeping DDR4 was part of that decision process. 2nd rig is a DDR4 platform.

N100 NUC's however are using laptop DDR5.
 
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