DDR5 Release Date?

[Quadrum]

I’m wondering if ddr5 is likely to drop any time soon and if it will be worth it for a semi professional workstation?

[PlayStation 2]

No one has a damn clue as to when it'll launch.

[Zando_]

Just now, Dan Castellaneta said:

No one has a damn clue as to when it'll launch.

^^^ Plus if it's anything like DDR4 vs DDR3 you'll barely see any difference other than a slight drop in power consumption, but IDK if a normal user will even notice that, it'd be drowned out by the CPU and GPU. 

[DildorTheDecent]

2019 is the current estimate.

[Quadrum]

So basically nobody has any idea and if doesn’t matter anyway because we most likely won’t see much performance gain. I’ll go ahead and buy ddr4. Thanks!

[Neftex]

2 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

^^^ Plus if it's anything like DDR4 vs DDR3 you'll barely see any difference other than a slight drop in power consumption, but IDK if a normal user will even notice that, it'd be drowned out by the CPU and GPU. 

afaik AMD is working closely on DDR5 so i would guess it will benefit performance more at least for AMD cpus

 

my guess on release would be 2020-2021 just in time for new AMD platform

[Mira Yurizaki]

4 minutes ago, Quadrum said:

So basically nobody has any idea and if doesn’t matter anyway because we most likely won’t see much performance gain. I’ll go ahead and buy ddr4. Thanks!

I believe when CPU manufacturers choose a type of RAM to go with, it's because they've identified a certain threshold needed to feed the CPU with data to maintain some performance mark. So there's really no point in worrying about when or what type of RAM comes out, because by that point, a new CPU and motherboard would've came out and you'll just have to upgrade everything anyway.

[Taf the Ghost]

18 minutes ago, Quadrum said:

I’m wondering if ddr5 is likely to drop any time soon and if it will be worth it for a semi professional workstation?

Into some server applications is end of 2019. 2020 should be full scale production starting. 

 

We don't know when it's all switching over for either Server or Consumer, but probably 2021 in the consumer space.

[xg32]

33 minutes ago, Quadrum said:

I’m wondering if ddr5 is likely to drop any time soon and if it will be worth it for a semi professional workstation?

i still remember the ddr3 and ddr4 launch, it was a hot mess for 2 years and slower than the previous gen.

[Taf the Ghost]

8 minutes ago, xg32 said:

i still remember the ddr3 and ddr4, it was a hot mess for 2 years and slower than the previous gen.

DDR5 will be a fairly large bandwidth increase over DDR4. So, for Server-type applications, it's a big thing. For consumer? It's going to be a bit, which is why we're not sure when we'll be seeing it on Desktop. There's thought it'll be 2022 with PCIe 5.0 at the exact same time.