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Re:Building a $5k ML Workstation with Tiitan RTX and Ryzen T... by akiselev on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @12:12PM (#23847319)
That is high end RAM binned at 3200Mhz. Consumer RAM is mostly 2133/2400 and with servers often using 2666. RAM at 3200 (PC4-25600) gives you about 25% more peak bandwidth than RAM at 2400 (PC4-19200) and about 16% more than 2666 (PC4-21333)
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Re:Building a $5k ML Workstation with Tiitan RTX and Ryzen T... by junar on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @04:07PM (#23850953)
Not true, 3200 CL16 can be nearly as cheap as slower RAM nowadays, with multiple brands at sub-$60 per 16GB stick[1]. OP is paying extra for RGB, as another commenter points out.

[1] https://pcpartpicker.com/products/memory/#sort=price&U=4&Z=1...

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Re:Building a $5k ML Workstation with Tiitan RTX and Ryzen T... by p1esk on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @03:11PM (#23850177)
That might be true, but you don't usually care about that for ML workloads running on GPU. Bottlenecks are typically elsewhere.
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Re:Building a $5k ML Workstation with Tiitan RTX and Ryzen T... by formerly_proven on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:15PM (#23851954)
3200 and 3600 are the default choice on desktops these days.
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