Does RAM Speed REALLY Matter?? (DDR5 Edition)

Buy a Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 SSD: Sign up for Linode to get your $100 in 60-day credit at How much does RAM speed matter? It’s a question we’ve covered before, but with new platforms from AMD and Intel, and of course the new DDR5 spec, it’s time to go down the rabbit hole once more... Discuss on the forum: Check out the parts on the rigs we used for texting: Intel Core i9 - 13900K Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 7950x Processor: ASUS Z790 Hero Motherboard: Gigabyte X670E Aorus Extreme Motherboard: MSI Pro Z790-P WiFi DDR4 Motherboard: Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 FE GPU: And check out some of the RAM we tested: G Skill Trident Z DDR4 3600 CL14: T