SRL Archive - Technology

Which processor is better? http://ark.intel.com/compare/85214,81015
Does the Processor Base Frequency or Max Turbo Frequency matter more?
(and Graphics Base Frequency vs Graphics Max Dynamic Frequency)

Is there a significant performance difference between the following 2 RAM?
8GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600MHz (4GBx2)
8GB PC3-12800 DDR3L SDRAM 1600MHz
There's varying opinion on this but i found a rather convincing article http://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/1349-ram-how-dual-channel-works-vs-single-channel/Page-3 that concluded that 2x4GB is about the same performance as 1x8GB in most situations?

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/ Perhaps you could try to find the processors you are comparing on this site? I'm not sure about the RAM though

From: riwu
Which processor is better? http://ark.intel.com/compare/85214,81015
Does the Processor Base Frequency or Max Turbo Frequency matter more?
(and Graphics Base Frequency vs Graphics Max Dynamic Frequency)

Is there a significant performance difference between the following 2 RAM?
8GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600MHz (4GBx2)
8GB PC3-12800 DDR3L SDRAM 1600MHz
There's varying opinion on this but i found a rather convincing article http://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/1349-ram-how-dual-channel-works-vs-single-channel/Page-3 that concluded that 2x4GB is about the same performance as 1x8GB in most situations?

I'd say the Intel® Core™ i7-5500U is the better choice.

Usually the base frequency is the important one, but due to the architectural changes (Haswell -> Broadwell in your case), the frequency matters less. If the comparison was done in within same architecture then the base frequency matters more. This also applies to iGPU (Integrated Graphics Processing Unit) that the processor (may) have. While this is Intels Tick-phase (die shrink) I doubt there's not much difference between those two, with an exception of iGPU.

For the RAM, you have given DDR3L (had to google this) and DDR3L SDRAM choices which are completely different so you can't compare them directly. SDRAM is mostly used in laptops, so I suppose this is for laptop?

Whether you should have dual channel is upto you. Dual channel gives you more memory bandwidth which increases speed in memory-intensive programs, but for games there's some improvements but they usually don't need to move large amounts of information between the processor and the memory

From: riwu
Which processor is better? http://ark.intel.com/compare/85214,81015
Does the Processor Base Frequency or Max Turbo Frequency matter more?
(and Graphics Base Frequency vs Graphics Max Dynamic Frequency)

Is there a significant performance difference between the following 2 RAM?
8GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600MHz (4GBx2)
8GB PC3-12800 DDR3L SDRAM 1600MHz
There's varying opinion on this but i found a rather convincing article http://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/1349-ram-how-dual-channel-works-vs-single-channel/Page-3 that concluded that 2x4GB is about the same performance as 1x8GB in most situations?

i7-5500U
they're both mobile so "meh" processors overall

On this mobile device, lets assume you're running the integrated graphics.. this means games will benefit not only memory bandwidth wise, but latency (memory speed) wise too if you were to have 2x4GB vs 1x8GB
this benefit is "slight" in most cases, as DDR3 bandwidth is massive and very rarely is anything eating it up, for example the average "heavy load game" on a desktop will maybe use about 20% of dual channel bandwidth on DDR3
for future proofing, if you're "strongly thinking" you may go with 2x8GB in the future, then I'd go 1x8GB
if you think you won't need it until you were to get a new computer.. I'd go 2x4GB

overall in anything except benchmarking RAM bandwidth, there aren't "normal" tasks that will saturate either of the rams bandwidth

Thanks for the advice! They are for laptops and I'm mostly using them to bot rs. So I would need high ram and good processor to run as many scripts as possible. Don't plan to upgrade to 16gb though as the processor won't be able to handle so many scripts so fps will be low?
Btw is it more cost effective to buy a few laptops with good specs, or alot laptops with low end specs?

I like my CPU and I have the 9590, but the downside is I had to use liquid cooling as for ram if your going with intel you should try to get ddr4. I just upgraded my computer with 16GB of 1866, and 980 gtx, and a 1200 psu

From: riwu
Thanks for the advice! They are for laptops and I'm mostly using them to bot rs. So I would need high ram and good processor to run as many scripts as possible. Don't plan to upgrade to 16gb though as the processor won't be able to handle so many scripts so fps will be low?
Btw is it more cost effective to buy a few laptops with good specs, or alot laptops with low end specs?

It's way more cost effective to buy a desktop lol..

for bots probably mid-range laptop for price:performance is best
and yea for running simba it'll use too much cpu for that much ram.. 8gb will be more than enough for what it can run

From: grats
It's way more cost effective to buy a desktop lol..

for bots probably mid-range laptop for price:performance is best
and yea for running simba it'll use too much cpu for that much ram.. 8gb will be more than enough for what it can run

No physical space for desktops :(
So I should get 4gb ram instead since the processor can't handle 8gb ram anyway?

From: riwu
No physical space for desktops :(
So I should get 4gb ram instead since the processor can't handle 8gb ram anyway?

No point in downgrading to 4GB of RAM. Don't most laptops come with at least 6-8GB anyway nowadays? (even the cheap ones in the $400 or so range)

From: J_R
No point in downgrading to 4GB of RAM. Don't most laptops come with at least 6-8GB anyway nowadays? (even the cheap ones in the $400 or so range)

Nope 8GB is more like mid-priced laptops. Most cheap laptops are still 4GB.

From: riwu
No physical space for desktops :(
So I should get 4gb ram instead since the processor can't handle 8gb ram anyway?

uhh idk
8gb would probably be about right.. 4gb bare minimum? forgot how much ram windows takes

also no physical space? build mini ITX builds.. you can do an i7 build and get like 20+ bots per machine..