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Beam Performance Relative To Ram Speed

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Tyler-98-W68, Aug 5, 2025 at 12:07 AM.

  1. Tyler-98-W68

    Tyler-98-W68
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    In my continuing quest of testing out all things related to Beam, i've found the game is quite sensitive to memory speed performance.

    I"ll start with an older system I had a few years ago. i7 12700K and 32GB of DDR5 4400(Crap Acer prebuild ram) and RTX 3090



    In the Los Injurus map (even at 4k ultra settings) there was about a 15fps boost

    Now on to my most recent system, a 285K with DDR5 7200 Ram with a RTX 5090

    I had to reset my bios chasing down some instability so I thought I would spawn a bunch of cars and get a baseline performance number. Default ram speed is 5600

    Then I would leave the ram speed the same but overclock my E-Cores from 4.6ghz to 5.0ghz as an E-Core OC helps with lots of vehicles spawned in Beam

    Next test was leaving the E-cores overclocked and put the XMP timings on the ram to run at 7200



    A baseline of 71 and 51fps with default settings

    Changing the E-cores to 5.0ghz and leaving the ram speed at 5600 resulted in ZERO performance increase.

    Keeping the E-Cores at 5.0ghz and the ram at 7200 was 85fps and 60fps

    An increase of 14fps and 9fps.

    TLDR with lots of cores active and being used, its beneficial to use fast ram.

    Now I'm probably going to get a DDR8800 kit and see if there is more performance to get out of this system, i'm thinking the increase won't be as great as it was from 5600-7200, but it's worth a test to see what happens.
     
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