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Next-Generation DDR5 RAM Will Double the Speed of DDR4 In 2018 (arstechnica.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the coming-soon-to-a-computer-near-you dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: You may have just upgraded your computer to use DDR4 recently or you may still be using DDR3, but in either case, nothing stays new forever. JEDEC, the organization in charge of defining new standards for computer memory, says that it will be demoing the next-generation DDR5 standard in June of this year and finalizing the standard sometime in 2018. DDR5 promises double the memory bandwidth and density of DDR4, and JEDEC says it will also be more power-efficient, though the organization didn't release any specific numbers or targets. Like DDR4 back when it was announced, it will still be several years before any of us have DDR5 RAM in our systems. That's partly because the memory controllers in processors and SoCs need to be updated to support DDR5, and these chips normally take two or three years to design from start to finish. DDR4 RAM was finalized in 2012, but it didn't begin to go mainstream until 2015 when consumer processors from Intel and others added support for it. DDR5 has no relation to GDDR5, a separate decade-old memory standard used for graphics cards and game consoles.

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  1. Nothing revealed, not news by erice · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Article summary: "DDR5 is coming and it is going to be faster than DDR4"

    That's it. No technical details at all. Will it be point to point? If not, how many ranks? What voltage? What sort of termination? Will there even be DIMMs?
    You won't find answers to any of those questions in TFA or any page linked from the TFA. The only significant piece of information is confirmation that JEDEC has not given up on DDR.

  2. Thats a neat trick. by JustNiz · · Score: 4, Funny

    >> DDR5 RAM will double the speed of DDR4 in 2018

    Thats cool! Will my DDR4 go back to normal speed in 2019?

  3. You don't need to wait! by JustNiz · · Score: 4, Funny

    > DDR5 RAM will double the speed of DDR4 in 2018

    I heard you can set your system clock ahead to 2018 and your RAM will go double-speed today.

  4. Oh by SuperKendall · · Score: 4, Funny

    I heard you can set your system clock ahead to 2018 and your RAM will go double-speed today.

    So THAT"S what overclocking means!

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