I’ve been on the extreme of maxing out fps in games for a decade. Gamersnexus is great! But they and the other YouTube benchmarkers don’t tell the whole story.

I’ve been on the extreme of maxing out fps in games for a decade. Gamersnexus is great! But they and the other YouTube benchmarkers don’t tell the whole story. when you are playing games that are bottlenecked by single thread performance single core performance and therefore memory speed becomes important. This is very difficult to benchmark as most of those games where it matters (CoD warzone) don’t have an easy way to benchmark. When I was testing my OC I literally would change the ram frequency in the bios, and drop into a pubg match, and screen record my fps and manually add it to a spreadsheet. So take those benchmarks and then add some performance gains from memory overclocking that I (and others) been able to get meaningful gains in fps beyond just overclocking the cpu. 5-10% more fps is not amazing, but it’s definitely worth it to me for games like warzone or valorant. AMD’s support for high end ram has always lagged. Happy to use amd for non-gaming, but if you’re trying to build “the best gaming rig” I’m not sure AMD can take that crown. And until people are willing to benchmark single threaded bottleneck games like warzone with different ram speeds, I doubt this argument will be settled.