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This is not really news; in some games at 1080p at medium settings with a high-end GPU, some Intel CPUs will pull ahead significantly, especially with tighter memory timings. But I would call this close to an artificial scenario, you will not game with a RTX 2080 Ti at these settings, so this is more interesting for an academic discussion than anything.Why is no one talking about this? It's absolutely insane the gains...
Am I missing something? Why are the gains so insane???? Ryzen is history... I mean yeah the ram costs $200 versus $100 for the same capacity, but small price to pay for 40-60 fps gains across the board...
gamersnexus review of high speed ram with intel i5-10600k beats ryzen 3700x by 60-70 fps in many games... and I can't believe no one is talking about that. its absolutely insane imo.
But I think most of you missed the most important detail in the benchmark results;
R5 3600 XT and memory needs to be overclocked to match what the i5-10600K (and i7-8700K) does at stock.
By the time you run this at a realistic configuration, like 1440p at high/ultra, there will no longer be a 60-70 FPS difference any more, and then the $100 extra in RAM is wasted, $100 you could have spent on a better GPU instead. I generally would advice against doing memory overclocking, especially if you think it will give you extra "value". Overclocking should be reserved for those doing it for fun, everyone else should run RAM at the fastest JEDEC speed supported by their CPU. It annoys me that so many these days seem to recommend overclocking by default. The countless crashes and stability issues from overclocked memory (especially as the memory controller degrades) is not worth it, and you have to pay a lot extra for the memory, and probably get <5% gains in most realistic gaming workloads. Despite how old Skylake may be, i5-10600K is an excellent gaming CPU capable of running games at stock memory speeds.