Chinese memory manufacturer fires the starting pistol in the race to 10,000MT/s DDR5.

 

Even the basic DDR5 spec is faster than all the best DDR4 kits, around 4,800MHz, but this may not be able to reach its full potential.

 The goal of the experimental "ultra high frequency" kit from Chinese memory maker Netac is much more than that. How does the DDR5-10000 kit affect your voice? Netac's target is a 10,000MHz (effective) storage kit with DDR5 memory (via ITHome, El Chapuzas Informatico), although there is still a long way to go.

 The company stated that it just received the first batch of DDR5 DRAM, a batch of MT60B2G8HB-48B ES: A RAM from Micron. The part number appears to correspond to the 16Gb DDR5 DRAM kit. Micron's DDR5 DRAM is officially rated at 3200-6400MT / s, between 1.1 and 1.8V, and each chip can provide up to 64Gb. Each DIMM can consume a lot of memory. Samsung managed to install 512GB DDR5 DRAM in a piece of RAM. Compared to SSD-sized system memory, even 32GB DDR4 is negligible in comparison. Netac will need to advance Micron a certain distance to exceed 10,000 MT / s (10,000 effective MHz), which will likely require loose timing and high voltage implementation. Of course, this is not impossible.

Today, the speed of DDR4 is more than twice its "standard" speed. Memory kit manufacturers will be looking to push DDR5 memory to the limit with every new memory kit. I suspect that the competition for DDR5-10000 kits should be widely praised. Memory makers (i.e., Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix) are also hoping to be the chip of choice for high-performance RAM kits (like Samsung's infamous B-die DDR4) and will undoubtedly deliver better performance with time.  For gaming workloads, you will need shorter hours and a strong relationship between memory speed and the memory controller that sits on the CPU.

Today, AMD or Intel chips are not suitable. AMD's first DDR5-compatible chip will use the Zen 4 architecture and is expected to be available in 2022. Intel has confirmed that DDR5 and DDR4 memory support will be rolled out to its Intel Alder Lake processors later this year.