Crucial RAM 16GB Kit (2x8GB) DDR5 4800MHz CL40 Desktop Memory CT2K8G48C40U5

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DDR5 is short for (DDR5 SDRAM) which stands for Double Data Rate 5 Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory. Can DDR5 fit into a DDR4 slot? Depending on the games you play, DDR5 memory can offer little to no performance gain, and this will be true for most titles. The best performing examples show up to a 20% boost which is significant, and here we're comparing premium DDR4-3600 memory to premium DDR5-6000, with the DDR5 kit coming in at a ~70% price premium.

Whether you are a gamer or PC enthusiast, you will be fully satisfied with what this memory series has to offer.DDR5 offers benefits in many applications and is best suited for maximizing DDR5 server and workstation performance for AI, deep learning, high-performance computing (HPC), cloud computing, virtualized supercomputing, and in-memory database applications that demand the highest-speed real-time memory available. It should also be noted that for the vast majority of games you can still easily get away with 16GB of RAM.

The second tab in the chart above aggregates selected benchmarks that represent real-world applications, such as the App Startup subtest from PCMark 10, the Premiere Pro result from UL Procyon, all the apps from our timed workloads chart, and F1 2021. The combined figures are an average of those results. Thanks to its huge lead in 7-Zip file compression, the DDR5-4800 wins over DDR4-4000 by 1.5% overall. We also experimented with removing the timed benchmarks from this data set (not charted here), and in that scenario, the DDR4-4000 kit would have led by 1.3% without that additional data. Interestingly, Far Cry 6 benefits massively from higher memory bandwidth and that's not because the VRAM buffer has been exceeded as we're using a 16GB card. Rather, this game dips into the system memory quite heavily and as a result we're seeing up to 22% greater performance at 1440p when looking at the 1% lows. So why do this at all? It’s mostly being done because you can’t really quadruple the density of the chip without additional safety layers. Today, you’ll mostly only find ECC used in servers and workstations, because it’s done for mission critical reasons. The on-die ECC in DDR5 is just something had to be done to make the high speed and high density a possibility. As for AMD processors, it's not clear as of June 2021 when the company's processors will support DDR5. Most people expect that it will happen with new releases in 2022.Micron DDR5 delivers a significant improvement in performance for mission-critical enterprise and cloud workloads which benefit from increased levels of bandwidth, scalability, and reliability. Micron DDR5 delivers world-record performance for In-Memory Databases 2, and is ideal for AI workloads like recommender engines and generative AI.​ A few weeks ago we reviewed Intel's new Alder Lake architecture for the first time and with it we also got our first chance to play around with DDR5 memory. In our Core i9-12900K review, we tested both DDR4 and DDR5 memory in a range of applications and games, to find that the faster, more expensive memory offered little extra performance for the most part, and this was particularly true for gamers.