G.SKILL and ASUS Sets New DDR5-8888 CL88 Overclocking World Record

[EatingDirt]

If memory serves me well, DDR2 never beat DDR, DDR3 didn't beat DDR2 and DDR4 didn't beat DDR3. New memory always "wins" because the old doesn't get developed anymore and it stagnates and the new memory gets faster and faster. But at comparable speeds, old memory was always faster.
The only thing that changed is right off the bat the new memory is already available (sort of, not really) at higher speeds. Afair, it always took a year or more before we ever saw faster kits before.

Early RAM iterations are almost always slower in terms of latency. DDR4 has surpassed even the fastest DDR3 sticks in terms of latency now. DDR5 might never surpass DDR4 in latency, but it should eventually be developed to be close enough that it basically won't matter.

You mean DDR5 7200 CL32 ? Probably that would never happen.
They seem to hit a wall on DDR 5-6000 with CL36 lowest possible for some reason.

Latency doesn't mean everything. You can see that in the DDR5 scaling review that TPU did. Some games are in fact faster with more bandwidth.

That being said, the fastest DDR4 you could get at release was around 3200 CL16. Those kits were around $800 at release. Needless to say they no longer cost that much, and you can now easily get decent, affordable 3600 CL16 kits.

Everyone should expect DDR5 to get faster, cheaper and have lower latency over time. Will it ever have lower latency than DDR4? Probably not. Will it matter? Not enough for you to notice. So as long as you don't buy bargain basement DDR5(4800 CL40), you're unlikely to notice the loss in performance at 1440p+, as it's only around 2% less in the TPU test suite of games right now. https://www.techpowerup.com/review/ddr5-memory-performance-scaling/5.html

 

[IdealPC]

8 is actually the code of making good money in Chinese culture....

 

[stimpy88]

CL88??? No thanks!

 

[bug]

CL88??? No thanks!

That's rich, coming from @stimpy88

 

[Guwapo77]

Early RAM iterations are almost always slower in terms of latency. DDR4 has surpassed even the fastest DDR3 sticks in terms of latency now. DDR5 might never surpass DDR4 in latency, but it should eventually be developed to be close enough that it basically won't matter.

Latency doesn't mean everything. You can see that in the DDR5 scaling review that TPU did. Some games are in fact faster with more bandwidth.

That being said, the fastest DDR4 you could get at release was around 3200 CL16. Those kits were around $800 at release. Needless to say they no longer cost that much, and you can now easily get decent, affordable 3600 CL16 kits.

Everyone should expect DDR5 to get faster, cheaper and have lower latency over time. Will it ever have lower latency than DDR4? Probably not. Will it matter? Not enough for you to notice. So as long as you don't buy bargain basement DDR5(4800 CL40), you're unlikely to notice the loss in performance at 1440p+, as it's only around 2% less in the TPU test suite of games right now. https://www.techpowerup.com/review/ddr5-memory-performance-scaling/5.html

I don't know what you consider affordable, but they got some decent 3600 CL14 kits.

 

[stimpy88]

That's rich, coming from @stimpy88

Damn! I totally missed that!

 

[SetsunaFZero]

This are some odd numbers, Half Life 3 confirmed!

 

[The King]

Looks like the record is now DDR5-9560

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