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Three years supervenient the computer industry promised to double the speed of the world's computer memory with the DDR5 spec, it's inescapably nigh anyway here. SK Hynix has officially announced the world's first DDR5 memory modules. The company tells The Verge it faddy to start transactions them in Q3 2021, but they're securable whenever systems can union them.

Here they are:

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Currently, we're looking at 32 or 64GB to a stick.

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SK Hynix claims this DRAM offers up to 5,600Mbps of raw bandwidth -- not quite the maximum 6,400Mbps the DDR5 spec allows, but a full 1.8 times faster than uncontested DDR4, and all at a lower voltage of 1.1V instead of 1.2V, for what SK Hynix claims will be a 20 percent power savings. (Power dispersion is measured in watts, not nonbelligerent volts, in whimper you're wondering anyway that math.)

In unromantic terms, today's agitprop won't beggarly numerous to your garden-variety computer builder or buyer, partially because of the gospel that RAM speed increases haven't provided a big elaboration for ordinary apps and outlander in a while, and partially because of the gospel that it could be multitudinous months afore you'll be realistic to buy them, numerous neath slot them into a system. Intel has announced it'll be acknowledging DDR5 with impending processors, but AMD hasn't officially embraced DDR5 and may not until 2022.

But eventually, the compromise of DDR5 might buckle your eye. As AnandTech credibility out, 128GB modules are likely, and 2TB server-grade modules aren't out of the question.

Today's agitprop is increasingly anyway proving that a company can cert cadaver such a module and get other manufacturers involved in erecting an ecosystem effectually the tech. In this case, SK Hynix says companies like Synopsis, Renesys, Montage and Rambus are all signed on -- not exactly the kinds of companies that bring RAM to us gadget lovers.

Which is basically additionally how DDR4 first stamped out. It took a while supervenient the spec was first announced. Plus, JEDEC only managed to palter the spec this July, a couple years trailing schedule.

If you listen the overeat for speed sooner, there's continually ridiculously expensive off-spec DDR4; you can once buy a pair of 5,100MHz sticks for ~$900, and try to overclock them to 5,600MHz.

Update 7:53PM ET: Added SK Hynix's commentate that it expects to commercialize the DDR5 modules in Q3 2021.