The first DDR5 modules for desktop will be available by the end of June

[Bombastinator]

1 hour ago, SlimyPython said:

iirc it takes a couple generations for the next ram generation to end out having an improvement over the last one. So you are mostly fine

I concur.  What would be dumb is me ditching my 16gb of 1600ddr3 for 1800ddr3.  Now if that ram dies before the rest of the computer does it would make sense to replace it with 1800 because why on earth not, but ddr3 has gone as far as it is likely to go.

[Elvara]

I can't remember the price and the module size for DDR4 when it came out in 2014 even if it was announced way before that, on google I found 16Gb 2*8 from kingston was around 220USD for DDR4-2133 so the price doesn't seem so high for DDR5 also for DDR4 the price drop 40% in the next 6 months.

Not sure with the chip shortage something like that will happen this time but we'll see.

[porina]

11 hours ago, Elvara said:

I can't remember the price and the module size for DDR4 when it came out in 2014 even if it was announced way before that, on google I found 16Gb 2*8 from kingston was around 220USD for DDR4-2133 so the price doesn't seem so high for DDR5 also for DDR4 the price drop 40% in the next 6 months.

Not sure with the chip shortage something like that will happen this time but we'll see.

For "consumer" DDR4 that would be X99 HEDT platform then? A price premium to use it with a high end platform is also more acceptable. For the impending Alder Lake launch, that is likely a mainstream not HEDT offering, so economies of volume may kick in faster. Module sizes in 2015 when mass market DDR4 systems arrived with Skylake were 4GB modules most commonly. You can get bigger. I never saw 2GB modules although they exist as a valid option in standards.

 

I'm also unclear how or even if chip shortages will hit DRAM. Historically it has always gone though cycles of over and under supply. Right now, I'd argue pricing is at a relative low for ram. In a quick look, it is easy and cheap to pick up 2x8GB of 3600. You don't really save going any slower.