4 Reasons DDR5 Won't Fix Your 1% Lows

DDR5’s latency is worse than well-tuned DDR4 Frame drops are sensitive to how fast the CPU fetches data from cache and memory. DDR5 has higher latency than good DDR4, so it can actually make stutters worse in some games.

The 1% low difference is tiny In Cyberpunk 2077, the gap between DDR4 and DDR5 for 1% lows is usually single-digit percentages. That is not enough to smooth out stutters.

Open-world games hit CPU cache limits first Games like Cyberpunk are heavy on draw calls and NPC AI. They max out the CPU’s cache long before DDR5’s bandwidth becomes useful.

A better GPU or CPU with more cache helps more A faster graphics card or a CPU with larger L3 cache (like AMD’s 3D V-Cache chips) will improve 1% lows far more than swapping RAM. Save your money for those upgrades.