Will Faster RAM Improve iGPU performance? (HTPC Upgrade)

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Tomb Raider
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Tomb Raider (2013)
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I've always wanted to upgrade the RAM in my HTPC as I've said 2,400MHz is less than ideal for an AMD APU like my Ryzen 2200G. So today I picked up 16GB of DDR4 3,200MHz. I knew that the Ryzen 2200G may not be able to run 3,200MHz but figured it could probably manage 3,000MHz. The store didn't have any 3,000MHz in stock so this was the cheapest thing next to 3,600MHz (and even that was only a few bucks more!)

Truth is it did make a noticeable difference. Just not as much of one as I expected. Perhaps my expectations were too high? I will admit the 2200G ran TR better than I was expecting even with the old RAM! I partially underestimated the APU while overestimating how old this game really is.

While we only saw a small performance gain I need to remind myself this was mainly a test of RAM speeds and not capacity. I did also double my RAM from 8GB to 16GB here and that has made a bigger difference in other metrics.

On top of the RAM upgrade I also considered upgrading the CPU to a Zen 3 based Ryzen 5 5600G. The price has really come down on these Zen 3 processors lately but looking into it more the graphics performance isn't that much better than what I have. The CPU performance certainly is much faster (newer cores, more cores) but the Vega based iGPU is really just bump in clockspeed basically. So I decided to skip on that CPU upgrade for now. Maybe in the future when RDNA based desktop APU's are available I'll consider upgrading but for now it's not worth it for the tiny bump in iGPU performance.

Like I said small performance gains aside the 2200G here did perform better in TR than I initially thought. So I have decided to play it a little more and I ended up having more fun than I expected! This is the first time I've played a TR reboot using a game controller (using a SNES style 8bitdo SN30 pro) and while I can't aim quite as fast/easily as I can with a mouse it's still fun running around, jumping, drawing the bow etc using the controller. I've played all 3 TR reboots on my main gaming PC using a KB/Mouse setup but again never played them using a controller. Perhaps I should play more older games on the HTPC!



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