Team Group decided to be the first to step into the new era of DDR5, without waiting for the release of the first mass processors with support for the Double Data Rate 5 RAM standard – the manufacturer announced a 32 GB (2×16 GB) DDR5-4800 Elite series set, which will go on sale in Europe and Asia and the United States at a recommended price of $400. The memory will start selling at the end of this or the beginning of next month.
JEDEC approved the final specification for DDR5 memory in July 2020, and in October, SK Hynix announced the “world’s first” DDR5 memory chips. Since then, Team Group, Adata, and other component manufacturers have vied with each other to announce the release of modules (DDR5), competing for supremacy. Now Team Group has every chance of winning this race.
If we talk about the Team Group DDR5-4800 Elite series’s technical characteristics, they fully comply with the JEDEC specifications. The memory, in this case, operates at an effective frequency of 4800 MHz with a supply voltage of 1.1 V and CL timings 40-40-40-77. The modules will come with a three-year warranty.
Intel is slated to launch the LGA1700 desktop platform and 12th Gen Core (Alder Lake-S) processors later this year, which will usher in the DDR5 era in the mainstream. AMD’s first DDR5 desktop processors will be the Raphael (Zen 4) chips for the AM5 platform, expected to be released in early 2022.
Analysts predict that by 2023 DDR5 will bypass DDR4 shipments and take over half of the DRAM market. Meanwhile, the Chinese company Netac aimed for “game” DDR5 memory with a frequency of more than 10,000 MHz – DDR5 frequencies start at 4.8 GHz, and the maximum for the first generation is considered to be 8.4 GHz.
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