Monday, October 25th 2021
Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB DDR5 leak, Alongside Details of Kingston's DDR5 Modules
We've already seen some official and some leaks of various DDR5 modules and now Corsair's Dominator Platinum RGB modules have leaked. Alongside the pretty pictures, we also now know that these will be 5200 MHz/MT/s modules with a timing of 38-38-38-84 and that they'll require 1.25 V at these settings. Corsair has carried over its Capellix LEDs and iCue support, although this was pretty much expected.
Details of three sets of DDR5 memory from Kingston have also leaked and it looks like the company will have at least three main SKUs. What we're looking at is the ValueRam series with bog standard JEDEC spec at 4800 MHz with a CAS latency of 40, the Fury Beast which will feature the same clocks, but improved an CAS latency of 38 and finally a higher clocked Fury Beast SKU at 5200 MHz which a CAS latency of 40. All three SKUs will come in single 16 GB modules or 32 GB kits.
Sources:
@momomo_us, @momomo_us
Details of three sets of DDR5 memory from Kingston have also leaked and it looks like the company will have at least three main SKUs. What we're looking at is the ValueRam series with bog standard JEDEC spec at 4800 MHz with a CAS latency of 40, the Fury Beast which will feature the same clocks, but improved an CAS latency of 38 and finally a higher clocked Fury Beast SKU at 5200 MHz which a CAS latency of 40. All three SKUs will come in single 16 GB modules or 32 GB kits.
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And they look better, generally, IMO.
They still look good though.
Although I quite like the design, I have/had several issues:
1. They're unexplainably expensive.
2. Although the large heat spreader looks good, it's totally unnecessary - my modules never went above 32-35 °C.
3. The intensity of the red LEDs were different across the two modules, giving me a slightly pink tint on one module compared to the other at 255-255-255 (white). It's not a big deal, but considering the price...
4. They can only be controlled via iCue - this is my main reason for not buying Corsair RGB products again.
I'm wondering if there's anything new with the DDR5 series.
Yeah I don't know, those latencies are steep
But in my current system I switched to g. Skill trident z Royal that is also running great so far.
Hmm wunder what will be the ddr5 equivalent to Samsung B-die for ddr4.
So we can have DDR5 with high clocks and low timmings.
RAM overclocking is overrated, imo. I think buying a dual channel kit of the highest supported speed of your platform is just fine (at consumer level of course). Anything higher is a waste of money.
So I'm looking into PCI-E 4.0, DDR5 and nVME drives among other things. I think going from i7 3770K and DDR3-2133 it's a big upgrade....
Correct me if I'm wrong.
I'm waiting for CL20 4000mhz ram (or better timings) before building a new system. That will be the sweetspot for price/performance for ddr5 at a guess for it's lifecycle.
Personally I think the original Dominator were the best, before all the RGB hit.
JEDEC timings for DDR4 3200 is 22-22-22 and as far as I know, there are no DDR 3200 modules will 11-11-11 timings. The closets seems to be 14-14-14.
As such, I wouldn't expect DDR5 4000 with JEDEC timings of 40-40-40 to be able to drop to 20-20-20, but we might see 32-32-32 at some point in the future.Because of this?
Corsair if ddr4 is a measure early on was expensive but so was everyone's ddr4
But corsair did use sammy at first only later did they stop and start using cheapest they could find for max profit because price did not drop but reliability did drop lol
DDR5 5200 by CL 40 (Gamor RGB RAM max performance)
DDR4 4000 by CL 19
DDR3 2133 by CL 9
Normal DDR5 have a few nice features like on Die ECC :)
Maybe my next sys will be an IGP CPU with DDR5 and on Die ECC :)
Yep they use loose timings on everything there is bad and there is terrible :)
So for say ddr2 1600 ram, with 8:8:8 timings, you end up with an actual latency of 10ns. This is the same 10ns latency as say ddr3 2400 ram with 12:12:12 timings. And again with ddr4 3200 ram with 16:16:16 timings, which is also 10ns.
Generally, each ddr gen has jumped 800mhz, and to keep the same latency, the (main) timings jump by 4.
Thus, I'd expect the sweetspot for ddr5 to be around cl20 4000mhz, with 20:20:20:xx timings, within around 6-8 months time (as crappy timing ram always come initially on any new ddr gen).