A A desktop orientated measure of RAM speed that favours bandwidth over latency.
Real world performance scales reasonably well with memory frequency (data throughput). The more data transferred per second the better. If two sets of memory have the same bandwidth (GB/s) then the better performing kit will have lower latency.

CPU Architecture Latency

Lower latency results in quicker data retrieval and faster computations. Multi socket server CPUs have much higher latency than single socket CPUs. In a multi socket configuration data often has to pass through an additional memory controller before arriving at its destination. Desktop architectures also exhibit different latency characteristics. The Zen CPU architecture has significantly higher latency than Skylake (70 vs 45 ns) which is partly why Skylake delivers superior gaming (fewer frame drops) and higher database throughput despite having comparable processing cores.

Effective RAM speed

The effective RAM speed index is weighted as 80% multi-core throughput, 10% single-core throughput and 10% latency. Dual channel RAM running at 3000 MHz on a skylake chip ≈ 100%. See a list of RAM Kits and their effective speeds (Avg. bench) here.

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CPUGPUSSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $300Nvidia RTX 3060 $280Crucial MX500 250GB $25
Intel Core i5-12600K $224Nvidia RTX 3060-Ti $300Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $86
Intel Core i5-12400F $150Nvidia RTX 4070-Ti $780Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $50
HDDRAMUSB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $40Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $67G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $381SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16
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