Is my Ram a bottleneck?

[WueroLoco]

As the title says, I was just curious if my RAM is a possible bottleneck (I'm pretty sure it is, I just don't know if it's just a small one or if it's a big one. I'm not too saavy on hardware since i've only played on laptops (When it comes to pc gaming)

Specs:
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900HX 24/32
Motherboard: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. G614JVR
RAM: 16 GB
Storage: NVMe WD PC SN560 SDDPNQE-1T00-1102 (953.9 GB/Fixed hard disk media)
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU (8.0 GB)

[Supafly]

The GPU is the Bottleneck

Even if the RAM was, you didn't list Speed or timings so no one could identify it.

The CPU is much more powerful than the GPU which means it's the GPU bottlenecking

[Agent]

32gb is the new 16. But given you're only playing Overwatch it's probably the GPU that's not giving enough performance.

[WueroLoco]

that's not the only thing i play lol. Ill list the speeds.

4 GHz core_i9

16GB DDR5-5600

Idk if the specs are actually correct tho, because I was looking in razer and it said my I-9 is 2.2 GHz? and honestly idk how to see the speed of my graphics card. Here's a link to the one I paid for.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CRCYJ8YV?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1

[WueroLoco]

I do play other games besides Overwatch 2. Hunt: Showdown is one (That game isn't as well optimized).

I don't really experience any problems per say (Besides keystrokes not registering when playing certain rhythm games). My old laptop is an i-7 7700H with a rtx 1050 ti (4GB I believe) A year or so ago I upgraded from 16 GB ram to 48 GB and that seemed to help a lot when playing games on that laptop.

[A&A]

Probably it is 5600MT/s JEDEC standart.

Even if it was faster, RAM always will cause bottleneck.

[_I_]

post a cpuz validation link
http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html
cpuz -> validate button -> submit button
it will open a browser, copy the url (address) and paste it here

[WueroLoco]

Originally posted by A&A:

Probably it is 5600MT/s JEDEC standart.

So you're saying getting new ram would benefit me in a way that wouldn't just be pissing in the wind right?

[A&A]

Originally posted by WueroLoco:

So you're saying getting new ram would benefit me in a way that wouldn't just be pissing in the wind right?

It probably won't help because manufacturers want them to work in JEDEC to keep them compatible and stable as possible so It depends on the laptop. If it uses XMP then it will, but it won't be a big deal.

[Tiberius]

Why not simply open your resoirce monitor and see if your system is running out of ram?

[_I_]

Originally posted by Tiberius:

Why not simply open your resoirce monitor and see if your system is running out of ram?

not enough ram is not always a ram bottleneck
if the ram is oem or slow or not running at rated spec it can prevent other components from running at their rated performance

[Tiberius]

5600mhz ram is not enough for gaming? lol stay gullible, gamers

[_I_]

Originally posted by Tiberius:

5600mhz ram is not enough for gaming? lol stay gullible, gamers

its not the freq, its also the timings

[C1REX]

Originally posted by WueroLoco:

Specs:
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900HX 24/32
Motherboard: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. G614JVR
RAM: 16 GB
Storage: NVMe WD PC SN560 SDDPNQE-1T00-1102 (953.9 GB/Fixed hard disk media)
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU (8.0 GB)

Bad cooling in a laptop can be a bottleneck as well.
Also most laptops don't have XMP profle for RAM and with 5600 and unknown timings it may not take advantage of a fast CPU.

Also laptop version of 4060 is quite slow and similar in speed to 2060 or 2060 super desktop version.

So it really depends what game and if your laptop has good enough cooling.

[Viking2121]

Well, the 16gb capacity I would say would be more of a bottleneck than the speed. And even then the GPU would be the limiting factor most of the time, you wont gain much by going with faster ram.

[smokerob79]

OK little known facts about DDR5....

The biggest difference between DDR5 and previous generations is that each 64-bit rank now contains two 32-bit channels. While splitting the 64-bit channel in two doesn’t increase bandwidth, it does allow smaller transfer blocks for its increased (doubled) 16 data-cycle burst length.

^^^^this means that there can be 32 bit single 16gb memory sticks for DDR5 as they would only use 4 memory chips on the PCB.....what you need to do is find out if you have one memory stick or 2.....if its a single stick its bad as you need both channels of the CPU working and one stick wont let you do that.......if its 2 sticks with the way DDR5 can be built its also bad as you most likely have 2 32bit memory sticks with each running half the bandwidth it could.....

what they really did was took the 2 64 bit memory channels older mother boards had and turned it in to 4 32 bit channels with 2 channels on each stick BUT only if you have memory chips on the PCB to populate all the channels.....

a real 32gb 2 stick kit would guaranty that you are running all 128 bits of bus the memory controller has.....

all of ^^^^this is real reason 32gb is the new 16gb standard....without doing a ton of research in finding rarer then hens teeth memory sets, 32gb of DDR5 is the only way to make sure you are using all the memory controllers lanes and bandwidth.....