so memory for your computer might be something you don't give a whole lot of
thought to even if you're an enthusiast as long as you have enough of a
compatible type things will probably run the way you want them to
but making sure that folks do have enough is one of the key goals of the
next revision of pc memory ddr5 so named because five is one higher
than four and the jdec folks didn't go to the same elementary school as
microsoft's xbox team seriously though the next revision of ddr memory does
bring the expected increases in speed and the decreases in power consumption
but the big draw is just how much capacity manufacturers should be able to
squeeze onto one chip ddr5 aims to have
twice the density of ddr4 which is no
mean feat because packing that much memory into such a small space makes it
more difficult to keep things stable due to like weird interactions that can
happen between atoms but it seems they found a way to do it meaning that an
individual ddr5 chip could contain up to 32 gigabits of data
but wait hold on a second i mean most of us with desktop computers have
more memory slots than we actually need i mean it isn't exactly difficult to put
16 gigs of RAM on a standard board so why do we need another revision of ddr
well although ddr5 will undoubtedly be relatively expensive when it hits the
market over time it will make the per Gigabyte cost of RAM cheaper and
although RAM has historically been one of the more inexpensive components for
pcs recent dram shortages have resulted
in price increases that have hung around for quite some time so even if users
find themselves needing just 8 or 16 gigs of memory once ddr5 becomes
widespread they should be able to enjoy some savings and ddr5's improved speed
will also bring benefits in certain scenarios now RAM was kind of overlooked
for a long time by pc enthusiasts like me simply because it didn't give
tangible performance gains in many applications particularly in games but
there's been a renewed interest in having speedy system RAM as AMD's ryzen
cpus are known for being more affected by memory speeds than their Intel
counterparts with noticeable frame rate increases being reported in certain
titles when you pair your CPU with faster RAM and a high performance
discrete graphics card so what kind of performance can we expect
then well ddr5 frequencies are expected to clear 6
000 megahertz which will be a huge improvement over the 3200 megahertz max
speed of the official ddr4 spec this could end up helping AMD users a lot and
also any folks who are gaming on integrated graphics cards that leverage
main system memory as vram so laptop
users rejoice this increased bandwidth
will also come in handy in server and cloud applications but when exactly will
we reap these benefits well we could see ddr5 kits towards the end of 2019
believe it or not but the first ones that hit the market will likely be aimed
at the enterprise consumer grade ddr5 probably won't be available until 2020
and even then we might still be in for a year or two transition phase before it
becomes really widespread and more affordable so in the meantime don't feel
like you can't splurge on that seak kit of RGB ddr4 that you've had your eyes on
since you can still enjoy it for a couple of years there are frankly
plenty of much stupider things that you could have spent more money on for much
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