DDR4 vs DDR5: DDR5 wins for video editing, not for gaming alone

Gaming alone doesn’t need DDR5 — a good DDR4 kit gets you 95% of the frames. But video editing loves bandwidth, and DDR5’s higher throughput speeds up proxies, timeline scrubbing, and rendering in Premiere or DaVinci. The price premium is shrinking to 20–30%, so if you edit semi-regularly, that buys real time savings. If you only game, save your money.