I WAS Wrong... RAM Speed Actually Matters!

I've left this hardware monitor on for the last 16 hours. So that's like yesterday at some point I put it on and then during that time I've exported a few videos and it's gone to 197 watts maximum power draw from this 9950X 3D. I've got the iGPU on as well which we're going to have to turn off because I don't think this is helpful here because sometimes it uses iGPU instead of dGPU and because the AMD Radeon iGPU just doesn't give us anything. It just just get rid of it. is there's no point having this on really. Now, interestingly, during what I have been doing here, I've used 74 GB of RAM, which also shows that 64 GB in my workflow is not enough. And at the moment, I'm using the four sticks, and these are going 3,600 mega transfers per second. And here's the thing, unfortunately, these memory sticks are not in the QVL list for this motherboard. It's time your CPU is not the bottleneck anymore. 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So I'm going to do a real world test of does the PBO actually matter and then does the RAM speed actually matter. So what we can see now is how much actual CPU usage we use and then how much GPU we're using. Okay, the first test is done. Now, we did it in 14 minutes and 3 seconds. Now, here's the thing. We're going to reset the status, and I'm going to go back to default settings. So, this is completely stock of everything. And then we're going to do exactly the same test again. Reset. We're going to go again. Now that is fascinating. I just completed it without the OC and we did it in 13 minutes and 33 seconds. So literally by not OCing it as you can see we are shaving 30 seconds of our 14 minutes export which is pretty crazy. Another thing interestingly that I noticed is that whenever we were exporting picture in picture or there's extra things on top of each other in Premiere Pro the Nvidia card suddenly kicks in and starts doing a lot of the heavy work. But now I want to get this 96 GB of RAM installed with higher speeds and I want to see if that makes any difference. So already the base speed of this RAM is 48 mega transfers per second. So, extra 1,200 megat transfers per second, but that is not the XMPP. So, we're going to restart this. Go into the BIOS and put XMPP on. Okay, we've put on the tweaked one. So, let's see if we can get 6400 megat transfers per second. We've literally more than doubled the memory speed now compared to the previous one, but we only have only have 96 GB. Okay, would you look at that? 6400 megatons per second, 96 GB. Exactly the same test. Let's go. Okay, now it's done with the XMPP enabled. And what is our result? 1209. We shaved another 30 seconds. No, wait a second. That is huge performance improvement. So now we just shaved off a minute and a half pretty much. So on the right I've got stock settings and then now with XMPP literally a minute and a half less. That is massive. But now I want to see if the XMPP will also give our CPU some extra boost. How and what it can do. So we're going to go BBO advanced. And I'm just going to put the same uh settings on there. Boost override CPU 200 everything maximum. We're going to just press apply. So basically now we've got XMPP but then now CPU boost as well. So let's let's take a look what it would be now. Another thing I want to show here is our Ethernet speed. So we're reading at 1.3 GBs per second. So I wonder if our internet speed or the Ethernet speed is also a bottleneck in this setup. So the next test what I will be doing is if I'm going to move all the files locally to see if our NAS or Ethernet connection is going to be the bottleneck. So stick around. Okay. Now it completed the test again. What we have is XMPP on and PBO manual is on as well. So, wow, another 20 something seconds. 1138. Okay, take a look at this. We've got stock RAM speed 3600 128 GB gigabytes. Then we've got the PBO enabled on the stock manual RAM 3600 speed. Then we've got stock 3600 speed and then PBO enabled enabled in there. So basically overclocking when your RAM speed is just standard doesn't really matter whatsoever. Then if you've got a faster RAM speed that shaves huge amounts off. We're basically 2 minutes faster from 14 to 12 minutes or a minute and a half faster compared to just everything stock. And if we've got the manual PBO enabled, overclocked, and the XMPP is on 6400 as well, we've shaved extra 31 seconds we have got off, which is just huge difference in terms of all the encoding. So this is absolutely fascinating. So if you're looking at the stock RAM bandwidth or the DRAM bandwidth, we're about 28 29 GB per second. If we overclock the CPU, obviously RAM doesn't change at all. But then going with a faster RAM speed, 6400 RAM speed, we are at 42 GB and which is the same in there on the PBO manual. We're 42. We're almost doubling the bandwidth by actually going double the speed, which is interesting. It's quite linear what we're seeing here. Also, when enabling PBO with the XMPP, what I saw was the actual power draw of the CPU was higher. What I see over there is 236 W compared to just 210 watt when it's overclocked, but RAM speed is not different. So, when we've got an XMP enabled, the CPU can do extra stuff and we're pulling extra 26 watts in there. But, we're seeing the same things actually different in there. So maximum CPU power draw if we just got the XMPP enabled is 200 W whereas on there we've got 196. So only a couple of watts difference which we basically say it's the same. But PBO can now suddenly enable extra power when we have XMPP enabled which is fascinating. Another thing I'd like to mention is that probably my VRAM is the bottleneck. This 5080 from MSI, it has 16 GB of VRAM and I have used all of it. As you can see, 15.5, 15.4. This is just 15 15.4, which means that we're probably VRAM bottlenecked as well. Now, the last test that I'm about to do is I'm going to copy all of these files from all over the different Naz and everything that I have and I'm going to put them locally on desktop. That's what I'm doing right now. And then we're going to do the export again to see if the storage having locally on the Gen 5 NVME, remember what we installed. Is that going to be any different? And are we going to get faster speeds? So now what I'm opening is this is actually located on the C drive. So on the desktop, everything should be in there, which means that we shouldn't be bottlenecked with any of the network drives or NAS or any of the other storage. Well, allegedly. So, we're going to do that test now. Okay, there it is. As you can see, different location. Let's do exactly the same test, but now we should be able to see this SSD massively in use. Okay, this just finished. So, let me just take a look at this. Oh, wow. That is a huge difference, guys. So, the best time so far was 11 minutes and 38 seconds, and now it's 10 minutes and 26 seconds. We've shaved extra minutes and 12 seconds off, which is ridiculous. So, we went from 14 minutes something to 10 minutes and 26 seconds. That is a massive difference. Okay, I didn't expect the NAS to be that big of a difference. Apparently, this is if I had everything locally, it would be faster. But the thing is, I just can't fit all 50 terabytes locally. So, I'm going to have to be somewhat storage bottlenecked. But these tests are absolutely fascinating and I did not expect that. One thing for certain, I'm going to keep the PBO manual on at maximum speed because 82° and we are 24 something degrees in this room right now. So, the temperatures are going to be completely fine on this. Even when I'm pulling 240 W, this cooling on that PC really keeps up with it. And having cool air coming in just makes sense. And why not just keep that extra little bit of performance there because it does help. So these two laptops, I did exactly the same tests on these two. So after exporting the PX16 with RTX 5090 mobile with 24 GB of VRAM, remember we are actually VRAM bottleneck there. Finished the export in 14 minutes and 18 seconds, which is the slowest of the bunch. But regardless, quite impressive for a laptop. And the 5090 and Creator laptop, they're doing good work in there. Bear in mind, I wasn't running any other programs in there, but it's still about 4 minutes slower than what we have over here, which is huge difference in time. Now, what about the MacBook? A lot better. This MacBook has 128 GB of RAM, which also can be allocated to the GPU. So, the GPU has a lot of VRAM. This MacBook completed it in 13 minutes and 30 seconds, which for a laptop is impressive. But regardless, our PC here is about 22% faster than this laptop while having four times the SSD capacity and a lot better ports. Now, yes, this PC is not portable, but it's upgradeable. I'm sure you already know that. It's running Windows, which everybody hates these days, even the Windows guys. This is amazing. I've been using it for a bit, and it's just so nice. on a laptop, you feel like you're on a laptop, no matter what the benchmarks say that, oh, this is about 20% faster. When you're working on it, it's just so much better. You've got unlimited ports that are just way too much that you're ever going to need. Whatever you plug in, it's just fast. It's just incredible. It's just always jugs through. There's no like, oh, laptop fans are kicking in and it's going to get the performance down because it gets hot. It's just at that speed at all times. I'm loving it. I'm only scratching the surface of what this PC can do. And yes, in my workflow, I would love to have a 5090, but even the 5080 is just amazing. And finally having 10 GB Ethernet, oh, it's just so good. PC building apparently is not dead. 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