Did we have them before DDR5? The answer to both this and your Q is yes.
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why wouldn't it?
Absolutely, you could even use DDR3 or older on a compatible computer (but it'll likely take longer to render the older the computer is).
You can certainly do this with DDR4, and I think it's actually better that way. DDR5 is being used for AI, and that's just unnecessary, considering the fact that the three RAM fabs had apparently focused on the AI boom by cutting DDR5 support to only enterprise-level entities.
@msokiovt@lemmy.today you make animations ??
I don't do that, no.
I mean. It depends.
Can you race on older tires? Absolutely. But it depends on the tires, and the car.
In other words, what the rest of your hardware?
@brucethemoose@lemmy.world Ryzen 3, AMD gcn 4th generation, 512gb SSD. I can't afford 16gb RAM right at the outset.
Like integrated graphics?
…Have you considered an older, used desktop?
As an example, I’m quite literally preparing to sell my old 980 TI desktop now. Street prices (per my initial investigation) seem pretty cheap, yet that’d be way faster in any kind of GPU-accelerated program (like animation software), even though it only has a DDR3 CPU.
The catch, of course, is power usage under load, a bulky desktop instead of a laptop, and buying used.
@brucethemoose@lemmy.world exactly, it's an old desktop. I don't prefer a laptop, because a desktop can be upgraded. Moreover, l'm going to work with kids, and desktop would be the best to introduce the world of computers to them.
Upon closer inspection, whatever you’re looking at probably has a discrete GPU, as there are no integrated GCN 4 graphics. Probably AMD 400 series? That’s not bad.
If you want buying/performance advice, you’re going to have to be more specific. Like what operating system are you looking at? Windows? Linux? What animation software? And ballpark what your budget is?
I ask because different things support graphics acceleration in different ways, or prefer newer CPU architectures, or don’t work well on Linux, or whatever. There are a lot of variables.
@brucethemoose@lemmy.world l suppose l'm more likely to get the Rx 500 series in the local market. I can't trust the product itself, unless l trust the seller.
@brucethemoose@lemmy.world ballpark is a perfectly new word for me. Anyways, l need to make my budget in ₹, not in $. I would be working on MX Linux, on xfce until l'm able to work on evilwm. It's going to be blender of course, and l'm going to use the blender 4 if not blender 3. And most likely Vulcan 1.2 of Godot. Not pretty much into 2026, but stick to 2020 items in my present phase. I was seeing that a bug's life was released in 1998, and if l can do something of that sort, l should consider myself more than successful 😃😃😃
So I’d investigate the exact software you’re going to use, but in general I’d go “older and bigger” for that, and try to get a desktop with a discrete GPU. Even DDR3 is fine if it’s a relatively fast DDR3 CPU.