DDR5 Memory Slated To Reach Computers In 2020

[Megalith]

While DRAM is expected to be replaced by fancier technology such as phase-change memory, it will definitely hang around for at least the near future, as evidenced by the arrival of DDR5 by the end of the decade. The fifth iteration will be denser and consume less power.

Specifications for DDR5 memory will be released this year, and deployment of the DRAM will begin in 2020, according to a slide deck presented at the Intel Developer Forum this week. DDR5 DRAM will have many benefits: Users will be able to cram more memory into PCs, and applications will run faster. DDR5 memory will be denser than earlier DRAM, and also consume less power, which could extend battery life in laptops. PCs will need faster and denser memory for applications like virtual reality, and DDR5 will help, said Mike Howard, director of DRAM and memory at research firm IHS.

 

[p.i.m.p]

sweet

 

[Stimpy88]

Great, yet another incremental consumer rip-off which will not show any tangiable performance benefits until years after it's launch. New CPU, new Chipsets, new motherboards.

 

[EODetroit]

In other words, this memory is for mobile. Desktop users need not give a damn.

 

[travbrad]

In other words, this memory is for mobile. Desktop users need not give a damn.

but in all likelihood we will still be forced to get new RAM when we upgrade our platform (mobo+CPU). Skylake technically sort of supports DDR3 but good luck finding a decent mobo that supports it...and with how cheap DDR4 is why bother?

Not that we have to do that very often these days with such small gains in CPU performance each generation. I haven't even had to switch to DDR4 yet and my 5 year old CPU is still pretty fast. I am hoping for a Kaby Lake with eDRAM though.

 

[Zarathustra[H]]

Only 3.5 years away, huh?

I haven't even started using DDR4 yet

 

[AK0tA]

Man this is great news, I will start planning a new build for 2024 then. Maybe by then VR will have matured enough to warrant a new rig.

 

[Darkswordz]

 

[FalconSS]

I'm a little confused. how is this different than a process shrink? why does a little less power, and a little more density need a whole new architecture?

 

[DrLobotomy]

So HBM has already flown the coop? What about the SSD type RAM I read about. I have DDR5 in my 4 year old video cards. I guess I missed some headlines somewhere.

 

[Deleted whining member 223597]

So HBM has already flown the coop? What about the SSD type RAM I read about. I have DDR5 in my 4 year old video cards. I guess I missed some headlines somewhere.

GDDR5 != DDR5. It's based on DDR3.

 

[Stimpy88]

I'm a little confused. how is this different than a process shrink? why does a little less power, and a little more density need a whole new architecture?

It may have some minor (most likely slower) timing differences, but you are correct, you can reduce voltage and current by a die shrink just as well.

But no doubt they will change the physical pin layout so that you cant use ddr4 instead.

But hey, maybe ddr5 will give us another 5GBs on top of the existing bandwidth we get from ddr4....... basically not much more that a 5% upgrade which will yeald an unnoticeable gain in performance for a few hundred $$$

I wish that intel would go the route of HBM and lauch CPUs with 8, 16, 32GB of ultra high speed memory built right next to the CPU cores. Now having 16 gigabytes of low latency high bandwidth memory sounds a hell of a lot better than high latency memory offering just 40GBs of bandwidth.

 

[Shintai]

I wish that intel would go the route of HBM and lauch CPUs with 8, 16, 32GB of ultra high speed memory built right next to the CPU cores. Now having 16 gigabytes of low latency high bandwidth memory sounds a hell of a lot better than high latency memory offering just 40GBs of bandwidth.

Its about cost, HBM will never be cheap, its simply flawed in its design there. A better chance cost wise would be HMC. But for now its going to be eDRAM as a cache.

 

[Stimpy88]

Its about cost, HBM will never be cheap, its simply flawed in its design there. A better chance cost wise would be HMC. But for now its going to be eDRAM as a cache.

Your probably right, but the whole eDRAM thing with Intel has shown only very small gains in certain applications. The cache would be ussless for the average desktop gamer.

 

[Shintai]

Your probably right, but the whole eDRAM thing with Intel has shown only very small gains in certain applications. The cache would be ussless for the average desktop gamer.

HBM/HMC wouldn't be much different. Its for the IGPs mainly.