This benchmarking looks at two specific kits of DDR4 and DDR5 on the Intel Core i9-12900K Alder Lake CPU with Windows 10, comparing DDR4 vs. DDR5 with these specific timings.
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As an important reminder, we can't produce a blanket "DDR4 vs. DDR5" video because DDR4 & DDR5 are just categories of the many thousands of different RAM options on the market, or calculated another way, the many tens of millions (if not more) of combinations of all memory timings. As such, we can produce a benchmark of the overall DDR4 vs. DDR5 performance on our standard DDR4 platform and our inbound DDR5 platform, but it is likely that certain configurations of DDR4 or DDR5 will outperform others in ways not shown here and entirely contingent on what kit of memory was used. For instance, if heavily tuned, it's likely that either option could outperform a less-tuned alternative from the other version of DDR. This was benchmarked on an Intel Core i9-12900K CPU in Windows 10, but we do have other benchmarks with Windows 11 published previously.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - DDR4 vs DDR5 Testing on Alder Lake
01:50 - Testing DDR4 & DDR5
05:38 - Hitman 3 DDR4 vs. DDR5 Results
06:33 - Grand Theft Auto V Interesting for DDR4
07:22 - Red Dead Redemption 2 CPU Benchmarks
08:12 - CSGO (1080p & 1440p)
09:32 - F1 2021 (1080p & 1440p)
10:10 - Far Cry 6 (1080p & 1440p)
10:33 - Cyberpunk 2077
10:51 - Rainbow Six: Siege
11:48 - 7-Zip Compression & Decompression Also Interesting
13:17 - Cinebench R23 CPU Benchmarks 12900K
13:40 - Blender CPU Rendering
13:46 - Adobe Premiere Video Editing
14:06 - Adobe Photoshop
14:11 - Chromium Code Compile
14:29 - MSI Z690 BIOS & Methodology Notes
17:35 - Conclusion: There Are Infinite Combinations!
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Host, Test Lead: Steve Burke
Testing: Patrick Lathan
Video: Keegan Gallick
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