DDR5 won't help game load times on an NVMe SSD.

No, it won’t.

If your games are already on a decent NVMe SSD (PCIe 3.0 or faster), load times are limited by the SSD’s read speed and the CPU’s decompression work, not by RAM bandwidth. DDR5 doesn’t make your SSD faster. It doesn’t make the decompression faster either (that’s CPU-bound).

DDR5 helps in tasks that hammer memory bandwidth — think 4K video editing, scientific simulations, or games that stream huge amounts of assets in real-time (like some open-world titles with RTX IO or DirectStorage). But for the simple act of loading a level from an NVMe drive? You’re already in the zone of diminishing returns. Going from DDR4-3200 to DDR5-6000 might shave off a tenth of a second, if that.

If you’re building a new PC and DDR5 is the same price, fine. But upgrading from a DDR4 system just for faster game loads? Don’t waste the money. That cash is better spent on a faster GPU or a better monitor.

Decide how much you care about the other 0.1% of your gaming experience.