Any real world benefit of having DDR4 3000 or more?

This is probably a silly thread. So I ordered this RAM (Ripjaw 4 DDR4 2800) and I instantly regret not ordering this slightly better RAM (Ripjaw 4 DDR 3000) because I could probably have afforded to spend the extra money and it would've been nice to take advantage of the extra speed the DDR4 has to offer.

Is this something offering too small of a performance gain to even think about spending $16 extra on? At this point I'd have to send the RAM back...doesn't seem worth it. Is all I'd gain is a couple of min FPS gain in games?

I'm going to be manually overclocking...will not having 3000 MHz RAM limit me or is it unlikely I'd even get to push my RAM that high? No XMP for me.

EDIT: Did some perusing and saw that the Ripjaw 2800 scores better in the benchmarks and seems to overclock better than the Ripjaw 4 3000. How could this be?

No need to send the RAM back. You will not see any real world performance impact by getting the DDR4-3000.
I haven't looked at benchmark scores but I imagine the DDR4-2800 still has some headroom left and the DDR4-3000 is probably approaching its limits.

Grugbug said:

No need to send the RAM back. You will not see any real world performance impact by getting the DDR4-3000.
I haven't looked at benchmark scores but I imagine the DDR4-2800 still has some headroom left and the DDR4-3000 is probably approaching its limits.

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The 2800 has a default voltage of 1.2 and the 3000 is at 1.35. So yea - pretty much. I'm sure the 3000 would be a hair faster once both put to the limits but I'd be surprised if I could measure the difference in any benchmarks.

For most cases you wont see a need for faster.
But there are some fringe cases where it will, but even then you might not care for the difference.

For example, Fallout 4 has been shown to benefit greatly from faster memory.
But you will only care if you are running 100Hz+ displays because 60Hz is easy to max.
And then again there are some physics timing issues running over 60Hz that might not have been fixed so its debatable whether F4 should be played above 60fps anyway.
Etc.

there is a bunch of ram reviews here the difference from such a small step as 2800-3000 is not noticeable a bit like overclocking your cpu 50mhz
http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=37837493&postcount=14

if your looking to oc the ram to get the most out of benchmarks then you could have chased sticks with a specific samsung chip on them that can oc well while maintaining tight timings

but otherwise i would normally suggest to just go with the fastest sticks that are still good value at the store your purchasing as there is often a point where the price starts to jump and as ram gets faster the speed gains decline
the sweat spot is typically around 2800-3200

Don't sweat it bro! Enjoy

dasa said:

there is a bunch of ram reviews here the difference from such a small step as 2800-3000 is not noticeable a bit like overclocking your cpu 50mhz
http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=37837493&postcount=14

if your looking to oc the ram to get the most out of benchmarks then you could have chased sticks with a specific samsung chip on them that can oc well while maintaining tight timings

but otherwise i would normally suggest to just go with the fastest sticks that are still good value at the store your purchasing as there is often a point where the price starts to jump and as ram gets faster the speed gains decline
the sweat spot is typically around 2800-3200

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Going by the charts you linked, looks like I'm missing out on 0.1 average FPS or something. I'd feel pretty silly spending $16 extra for that.

Thanks

t1337Dude said:

Going by the charts you linked, looks like I'm missing out on 0.1 average FPS or something. I'd feel pretty silly spending $16 extra for that.

Thanks

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Most of those are pre Skylake benchmarks. Skylake gets a more notable performance increase from faster memory.

Ocellaris said:

Most of those are pre Skylake benchmarks. Skylake gets a more notable performance increase from faster memory.

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I will be on X99, not Skylake. Skylake seemed like a better short term option and X99 seemed like a better long term option to me. All signs are pointing to DX12 benefiting hugely from multi-threading, so X99 seems like a no-brainer.

Ironic because I held out on my X58 for Skylake. Oh well

Will better multi theading in DX12 also make system ram speeds a little more impt than they are now?