Which ram is the fastest 800MHz CL6 or 800MHz CL5

[Rukasuzu]

Which ram is the fastest 800MHz CL6 or 800MHz CL5
Someone from my family is asking

 

[LinkedKube]

cl5, its cas latency. smaller number, faster timings.

 

[Rukasuzu]

What does faster timings mean?

What does faster timings mean?
Which ram has higher number of operation per second?
The ones I listed above!

 

[SNGX1275]

I may be wrong here so if anyone knows better feel free to correct me. But the timings signifiy how many clock cycles occur before an operation occurs. So CL5 does whatever it needs to do every 5 clock cycles, while CL6 takes 6 cycles. So 5 is faster by ~20% theoretically. But I think in practice you don't see anywhere near that performance increase. I expect the increase between CL5 and CL6 is probably much closer to about 2% or less.

 

[Rukasuzu]

I think what it means the smaller number then better cl 5 cl6

I think what it means the smaller number then better cl 5 cl6
Look it up on Wikipedia

 

[LinkedKube]

I may be wrong here so if anyone knows better feel free to correct me. But the timings signifiy how many clock cycles occur before an operation occurs. So CL5 does whatever it needs to do every 5 clock cycles, while CL6 takes 6 cycles. So 5 is faster by ~20% theoretically. But I think in practice you don't see anywhere near that performance increase. I expect the increase between CL5 and CL6 is probably much closer to about 2% or less.

that's exactly right.

 

[Rukasuzu]

Thank you

Thank you
Its very interesting