Originally Posted by
potis
Lol no, the advantage was instant and insane for the almost non-existant price change, going from DDR3 1600 to DDR4 3200 was a massive upgrade without counting the small % increase from the CPU. If you wanna talk prices, i bought my 16GB 3.200Mhz kit for 79e when the DDR3 1600,16GB kit was around 70e also.
The difference is that the DDR4 instantly came out with higher frequencies despite its default 2400 with up to 3600 the first month, while DDR5 released with its default 4800 and a few 5200 kits overpriced as hell and there arent any higher frequencies kits anywere yet.
But some overclock testings people did with DDR5 6000 has a 10% advantage over the DDR5 4800 in some games which already has a ~5% advantage over DDR4, so it matches the difference between DDR3-->To DDR4 change % wise, but the kits arent out and they dont cose 10$ more, they cost 250$ more for not even the good ones, which makes no fucking sense to buy them.
If a DDR4 kit at 3200-3600 that costs 90$ gives you 200 FPS when paired with a 12900K and a DDR5 4800 kit gives you 210 FPS for 300$ what are you gonna buy?
If things were similar with DDR3 to DDR4 we would have DDR5 6000 kits for 120$ which would be okay for the 230 FPS you would get averagely, cause that ~15-20% increase they would provide in -some game engines-.