What IT Do & How IT Do IT—DDR5 Double Data Rate 5—Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory
Double Data Rate 5 Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory or DDR5 is the current standard for memory module Double Data Rate 5 Random-Access Memory or DDR5 is the current standard for memory modules on consumer PCs. DDR5 came to market in concert with Intel's 12th Generation Core processors (headed by the Core i9-12900K) and associated Z690-chipset motherboards. Motherboards using the Z690 chipset are the first consumer boards to support DDR5 memory modules and Alder Lake chips. Development of DDR5 lies mainly with its increased capacity of 64Gb (gigabits) per integrated circuit (IC) or the chips on the memory modules. This represents a fourfold increase compared to DDR4. Previous generations of DDR memory have typically doubled capacity compared with their predecessors. The quadrupling of maximum IC capacity brings with it DIMMs of up to 128GB per DDR5 module. The typical four-slot DDR4 desktop motherboard can hold up to 128GB of memory in total using four 32GB consumer DIMMs, ...