DDR5 Arrives at 4800 MT/s Speeds, First SoCs this Year

[Nephilim666]

Always buy memory at the end of it's technological lifecycle. You will always get the best bang for buck.

I still have 32GB of quad channel DDR3 2133 9-11-10-28 running on my x79 system. I'm putting 128GB DDR4 3600 16-19-19-39 in my TR3 system.

Early adopters pay a high price and a high performance penalty when it comes to RAM. The exception is chips that become 'legendary' like BH5, Micron D9 and Samsung B-die which shot up in cost when people figured them out.

 

[Vya Domus]

Always buy memory at the end of it's technological lifecycle. You will always get the best bang for buck.

If you buy memory at the end of it's technological life cycle that means you're also buying processor technology at the end of it's life cycle. Not great for best bang for buck.

 

[bug]

That will allow for 256 GB DIMMs...

Finally programmers will be able to stop caring about memory optimizations completely.

@ARF Use your brain. The article says "each byte can be accessed under 100 ns". At 4.8GT/s that works out at about CL 20-21. You have all the data under your nose and you still spam with speculations

If you buy memory at the end of it's technological life cycle that means you're also buying processor technology at the end of it's life cycle. Not great for best bang for buck.

Except you can buy DDR4 today to use with Zen2 (and Zen3 later on). Life cycles are independent of each other.

 

[voltage]

First iterations of new memory technologies are often slower than super refined late iterations of previous generations.

its a shame isn't it, in a way it punishes the first adopters who often also pay the highest price as well. in my opinion I have always thought the industry should reverse their methods. yes yes I know technically they cant, or its more accurate to say they wont. I have been waiting a decade for ddr5, i hope I am around long enough to own a platform that utilizes it, with lower cas.