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RAM: PNY and Team Group announce DDR5 RAM

Aug 18, 2021

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PNY is also “soon” expanding its RAM portfolio of RAM with DDR5 to include next-generation memory modules that will offer higher memory frequencies and speeds than the previous generation with DDR4. At the beginning, the JEDEC standards DDR5-4800 to DDR5-6400 are to be expected.

For the first time with Intel's hybrid CPUs of the Alder Lake-S type and later also AMD Zen 4 (“Raphael”) on socket 1718 (“AM5”) will also find DDR5 in the consumer area and at least at the beginning will have to nibble on the high CAS latency. In addition to ADATA, Innodisk and Team Group as well as Samsung, which also produces RAM components (ICs), PNY has now also announced the first DDR5 memory modules, but without going into detail.

Introducing our Performance DDR5 Desktop Memory. Designed for next-generation systems supporting the new memory standard, DDR5 will allow for higher density modules and faster frequency speeds as compared to previous-generation technologies.

Coming soon: https://t.co/5uWU81BTFX pic.twitter.com/fWbzVBYZdZ

& mdash; PNY Technologies (@PNYTechnologies) August 17, 2021

As the manufacturer announced in a press release, the first memory kits with DDR5-4800 will be launched and will therefore hardly be able to distinguish themselves from the faster DDR4 kits at the beginning.

DDR5-8400 and more will come later

Using appropriately selected modules and the overclocking profiles with Intel XMP 3.0, however, DDR5-7200 will also be available later , -8400 and -9600 expected. The article “DDR to DDR5 in comparison” provides further background information on the topic.

DDR5-3200 to DDR5-8400 in detail Memory clock I/O clock * Effective clock ** Memory bandwidth DDR5-3200
PC-25600 200 MHz 1,600 MHz 3,200 MHz 25.6 GB/s
3,200 MT/s DDR5-3600
PC-28800 225 MHz 1,800 MHz 3,600 MHz 28.8 GB/s
3,600 MT/s DDR5-4800
PC-38400 300 MHz 2,400 MHz 4,800 MHz 38.4 GB/s
4,800 MT/s DDR5-5600
PC -44800 350 MHz 2,800 MHz 5,600 MHz 44.8 GB/s
5,600 MT/s DDR5-6400
PC-51200 400 MHz 3,200 MHz 6,400 MHz 51.2 GB/s
6,400 MT/s DDR5-7200
PC-57600 450 MHz 3,600 MHz 7,200 MHz 57.6 GB/s
7,200 MT/s DDR5-8400
PC-67200 525 MHz 4,200 MHz 8,400 MHz 67.2 GB/s
8,400 MT/s *) Connection to the Memory controller; **) Clock compared to SDRAM

Initially, the new memory standard will lose out to its predecessor DDR4, especially in terms of memory latency. Users could also make this observation with the introduction of DDR2, DDR3 and DDR4.

DDR-400 to DDR5-8400 in direct comparison Memory clock I/O clock * More effective Clock ** Memory bandwidth Latency DDR-400 CL2 200 MHz 200 MHz 400 MHz 3.2 GB/s
400 MT/s ~ 10.0 ns DDR2-800 CL5 200 MHz 400 MHz 800 MHz 6.4 GB/s < br> 800 MT/s ~ 12.5 ns DDR3-2133 CL10 266 MHz 1,067 MHz 2,133 MHz 17.0 GB/s
2,133 MT/s ~ 9.4 ns DDR4-4000 CL14 500 MHz 2,000 MHz 4,000 MHz 32 , 0 GB/s
4,000 MT/s ~ 7.0 ns DDR5-8400 CL40 525 MHz 4,200 MHz 8,400 MHz 67.2 GB/s
8,400 MT/s ~ 9.5 ns *) connection to the memory controller; **) Clock compared to SDRAM

Team Group T-Force with DDR5-4800 and -5600

Team Group also went one step further and today announced the prospect of the first DDR5 memory modules of the “T-Force” series, which is primarily aimed at gamers. Here, too, the memory kits will initially be specified with DDR5-4800 and DDR5-5600.

The manufacturer speaks of availability in the 4th quarter and is already talking about memory modules Intel XMP 3.0, which at least suggests sharper latencies than those specified by JEDEC.