Micron's driving DDR5 adoption with its Tech Enablement Program - A Peek at DDR5

[WYP]

More bandwidth, increased efficiency and boosted reliability.



Read more about Micron's push towards DDR5.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Great read there Mark. Pretty interesting stuff and ddr5 finally looks like a real memory upgrade outside of just faster modules.

2nd to last paragraph though I believe it was meant to say "release DDR5 memory modules" but you said ddr4.

 

[WYP]

Great read there Mark. Pretty interesting stuff and ddr5 finally looks like a real memory upgrade outside of just faster modules.

2nd to last paragraph though I believe it was meant to say "release DDR5 memory modules" but you said ddr4.

Thanks. The typo has been fixed. It's good that DDR5 isn't just DDR4 with higher clocks. It will be interesting to see what gets done with the extra bandwidth over time.

 

[NeverBackDown]

I think it'll have a bigger effect on Ryzen CPU/APUs if the efficiency goes down which means lower latencies from the memory itself and more bandwidth/cycle.

Outside of that it's hard to tell what else it would be good for at the moment as you said.


One thing I hope happens is cheaper memory sooner rather than later as well as higher speeds closer to it's launch instead of the normal massive speed increases a year or two down the line.

 

[Kleptobot]

The shift to on module power management is interesting, i wonder if its going to tie in with the new atx standard for PSUs