faster is better with many things in life including today's topic
ddr5 memory so let's get right into it ddr5 is expected to be twice as fast as
ddr4 which mainstream pcs have been using for years now initially the
manufacturing goal for ddr5 was to run kits at 4 800 megahertz which is double
ddr4 standard speed of 2 400 megahertz
but of course many of us are running our ddr4 kits at 3 000 megahertz and beyond
today meaning these stock improvements don't seem to be that impressive at face
value that's why the powers that be decided to kick it up a notch and sk
hynix a major manufacturer of dram has come out and stated it wants to roll out
kits that can get up to 8400 megahertz
whoa but realistically consumers looking to snag some memory for their home
systems should get used to seeing kits somewhere in the 4 800 to 6400 megahertz
range with ddr5 8400 mostly being
targeted at the server market and regardless of what speed you get ddr5
can be accessed while some of its memory banks are being refreshed which should
cut down on latency and further improve performance but as is tradition higher
speeds will counterintuitively come with lower power consumption thanks to
shrinking transistor sizes the standard voltage for ddr5 is going to be just 1.1
volts down from the reference of 1.2
volts in ddr4 and although this isn't going to mean a ton for desktop
computing lower power consumption overall should help extend the battery
life of mobile devices at least a little bit another result of smaller
transistors is greater density and i don't mean that your memory modules will
sink faster in a cup of water i'm talking about storage density how many
gigabytes each module can hold this is expected to roughly double so you might
see 16 Gigabyte sticks become a lot more common than they are right now but hold
on a minute there james boy you're talking about ddr5 like it's something
coming out in the future even though you've seen that you can get your hands
on it right now what's up with that well here's the
thing just like many other kinds of bleeding edge tech availability for joe
consumer will effectively be non-existent for some time although we
have seen variants of ddr5 incorporated into high-end smartphones you can't yet
get your hands on a couple of sticks for your desktop pc there isn't a current
consumer platform that supports it and next generations of both Intel and AMD
cpus due out later this year are still going to be based around ddr4 indeed
aside from the aforementioned smartphones that will benefit from ddr5's lower power consumption we're
more likely to see ddr5 show up in servers first as ddr5 has more robust
error checking capabilities than older generations of RAM which will be useful
for data operations that need to be up and running basically
all the time current market estimates don't expect ddr5 to really start becoming widespread
in consumer pcs or servers until late 2021 and it will likely represent less
than half of the dram market until at least
mid-2022 so don't wait around for a ddr5
platform to come out if you're thinking about upgrading your rig or you're
building a new one this year but that isn't to say that it won't be a cool
piece of tech when it does come out especially as AMD's new CPU
architectures have made RAM performance a lot more important than it was just a
few years ago i'm just hoping that when ddr5 does become the standard roller
coaster RAM prices won't force me to take out a sketchy paycheck alone
just to get my hands on some the interest rates is so high
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