What affect does RAM speed have RawTherapee

Hardware
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I have Windows machine with an i7 13700 that had 16Gb of RAM running at 3200 MT/s. I recently upgraded to 32Gb of RAM with what I thought was 3200 MT/s. When I installed it, it was only running at 2133 MT/s. I contacted my computer OEM’s tech support and they said they my motherboard does not have XMP, and the RAM I got is only rated 3200 with XMP.

So my question is, how much am I losing by running at the lower speed? My biggest concern is RawTherapee.

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Probably not as much as you think. In my experience RawTherapee struggles to saturate memory bandwidth (even though the underlying operations are certainly bandwidth limited as implemented).

Regards, Freddie.

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