not much

You are spending that money for +1 fps.

Might get a few FPS if it's a iGPU vs a dedicated GPU, if it's just a regular laptop check BIOS to make sure you can set RAM speeds, need to put specs or what laptop it is.

with a laptop it will help its igpu
but all laptop ram has high timings, it wont make much of a difference

Originally posted by wing0zero:

Might get a few FPS if it's a iGPU vs a dedicated GPU, if it's just a regular laptop check BIOS to make sure you can set RAM speeds, need to put specs or what laptop it is.

Its a Predator Helios 18 AI RTX 5080

with a dedicated gpu, faster ram will be no help at all
more ram will only help if its needed

but with laptops, pretty much all ram is the same, higher freq ram will higher timings, making them about the same

Originally posted by _I_:

with a dedicated gpu, faster ram will be no help at all
more ram will only help if its needed

but with laptops, pretty much all ram is the same, higher freq ram will higher timings, making them about the same

I didnt ask about more ram, but faster ram

i just said more ram only helps if you need more ram

but higher freq ram in the laptop will not make any difference, since it will not be any faster

if it's basically free.
like others have said the difference will be like 5% at most.

Since enough people have said it's not worth it, I'll give an opinion in the other direction.

That's three speed grades up on RAM. That's not exactly insignificant, especially since you're starting with something at the absolute lowest end and pushing towards the middle (as opposed to already being in the middle and pushing higher). More so if that's generic stuff with bad timings and you the stuff you replace it with has a better ratio of frequency to timings. It's probably not significant enough for the cost of totally replacing the RAM if your money means a lot to you. RAM speed is one of those things where the difference is more worth it when deciding between the two at the start, but replacing one with the other is harder to justify.

But since it has a decent GPU (and probably a decent CPU; the name implies a recent Ryzen?), I'd say the answer here should be "maybe". Anything that is CPU limited is likely to receive a decent uplift from faster RAM, unless that happens to be an X3D CPU (where faster RAM is still nice, but will be less noticeable). It won't be something you'll massively notice most of the time, but it might make a fair difference in certain cases, and a small uplift the rest of the time.

Since it's a decent laptop, if you have the spare money to spend to improve it a little, I'd say it wouldn't be a total waste. Just don't expect to be running visual settings you weren't before or something.

So my overall vote is, if it's not an X3D CPU and you have the spare money, it wouldn't be a waste. At the same time, it's not necessary.