DDR4-2400, DDR4-3200 is on its way

Yep, Micron have been busy. They have working modules now just a case of mass production Q4 2012 Q1 2013 and in he market next year, possibly for Haswell?
 
Usually, this wouldn't mean much because Intel don't plan on baking DDR4 support into their products this side of 2014. The first to receive DDR4 will be server chipsets such as Haswell-EX. Desktop and mobile would receive DDR4 in 2015 with Broadwell, a 14nm die-shrink of Haswell. But... there are now some seriously big players who want some high-speed DDR4 goodness, AMD, NVIDIA, Qualcomm and TI. I'm sure this will grow in between now and 2013, too.
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2015 for desktops.
 
Will it actually give a performance boost though?

At present it seems ddr3 12800 is good enough that even increasing clockspeeds to over 3000Mhz doesn't give significantly better performance.
 
Ollie1132 said:
Seems rather pointless doesn't it? Z77s only just got released. If DDR4 is ready for mass production why release Z77's with DDR3 DIMM slots?
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Usually, this wouldn't mean much because Intel don't plan on baking DDR4 support into their products this side of 2014. The first to receive DDR4 will be server chipsets such as Haswell-EX. Desktop and mobile would receive DDR4 in 2015 with Broadwell, a 14nm die-shrink of Haswell. But... there are now some seriously big players who want some high-speed DDR4 goodness, AMD, NVIDIA, Qualcomm and TI. I'm sure this will grow in between now and 2013, too.
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Krono5 said:
Will it actually give a performance boost though?

At present it seems ddr3 12800 is good enough that even increasing clockspeeds to over 3000Mhz doesn't give significantly better performance.
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Depends on the CPU, for example Llano's IGPU shows a good increase from using faster ram.
 
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