Gadgetory

hey you using that ddr3 or ddr4 maybe even ddr2 if you're into a bit of LGA 775 it's all system memory and nowadays is actually quite expensive but there is DDR 5 on the horizon and should you need to upgrade to it let's do a little bit of analysis and focus on the topic today's video is brought to you by asrock with their hates 370 performance motherboards if you're in the market for an eighth gen Intel CPU even an i7 this board has you covered with a 10 phase vrm design you can even control things like RGB fans and other components via the polychrome RGB software which you can use in both the BIOS and windows click on the link in the description below to learn more so before looking at the future of computer memory we have to evaluate what we have right now if you're buying a computer in 2018 or even a new smartphone it's most likely running ddr4 you may stop me and say that's because ddr4 is the fastest look I can pick up a stick of ddr4 with 30 200 megahertz X and piece but there's more to the story than just memory clock speeds the biggest resistance to clock speed is latency so we need to start with latency we mainly need latency because the CPU and memory don't run at the same frequency so there's an element there where the system is waiting for the memory because the CPU is faster most of the time but what about when it isn't what if we happen to have for example 3200 mega Hertz ddr4 memory on a 3200 maker at CPU zero latency you might ask nope because the motherboard is now your bottleneck so true low ultra-low latency memory is it even possible well no they even did it on really old Intel CPUs such as the original 8086 which runs at 8 megahertz on a 3 micrometer architecture that's 3,000 nanometers that was the last time the memory processor and boss ran at the same frequencies but even the 8086 needed latency so that the data could physically move between two components otherwise by the time the electric current reach the CPU it would have started a new cycle resulting in essentially a short circuit lots of talky-talk what does that mean for you DDR 5 was initially rumored to be released in 2020 but news of the standard being finalized in 2018 and released in 2019 have come to fruition here's some things you can do now to get the most out of your system however well as long as you have dual channel and some systems even have quad channel memory you are using the most bandwidth possible for your CPU you could also try overclocking your beak instead of your cpu ratio but with ddr5 hopefully we'll be able to sync up those clocks once again then it's just a matter of waiting for motherboard chipsets to improve enough to reach an equilibrium before cpus get higher clocks once again ideally games will start utilizing more cores so we don't need to hit such high frequencies so we can focus on trying to cut down on latency because the ddr 5 spec proposed is aiming for 40 400 megahertz 260 400 megahertz with latencies of CL 42 to 48 to put that into perspective most ddr4 runs at seal 15 out of the box 21 33 megahertz and ddr3 runs at CL 11 1600 megahertz well at least most of it does now so comparing latency across different DDR architectures is factually inaccurate since memory goes by cycles and the lower the better however the higher the polling rate the better from the speed itself means we are looking at ddr4 having a comparable latency of which tend to keep speed differences between the two marginal for example we're comparing ddr3 to ddr4 we have 0.006 875 latency per pole for ddr3 with ddr4 we have 0.007 oh three three four for ddr4 and for ddr4 we have calculated roughly zero point zero zero seven zero three two three four and the guesstimate for DDR 5 would be somewhere around zero point zero zero nine five four five so as bandwidth improves the latency increases some may say this is a bad thing I would say it's both a good and bad thing a necessary evil rather ddr5 of course will have its other benefits and it will run at lower voltages one point one volt is the predicted spec this will mean lower power consumption and less heat output a great bonus for large corporations with server farms like Google for example running X amount of servers in their headquarters the one at all draws back to the single end desktop user which is me and most likely a lot of you guys out there the differences are negligible for the end user only an extra few watts extra power consumption and is shown by many different benchmarks in games ddr4 already doesn't make that much of a difference compared to ddr3 and in fact some games generally appreciate lower latencies of anything though Rison is an exception to this preferring both higher transfer speeds and also lower latencies call it a unique CPU designed to say the least much because of its infinity fabric though truth be told ddr5 isn't delayed at all and it actually is ahead of schedule I think with worldwide increased consumer demand for smartphones tablets computers laptops and all things Electronics brings a never saw / amplified demand for this memory and when ddr3 was released back in 2007 ddr4 came seven years later in 2014 way back when Intel's fifth generation high-end desktop CPUs and x99 was first released so for a 2019 slated release it is actually beating the previous generational gap between ddr3 and ddr4 though mitad Lee it's losing out to that of the shift from ddr2 ddr3 which was a four-year gap when ddr2 was initially released in 2003 so in conclusion memory is a funny thing o pun intended just like our own memory the system memory is volatile it will forget things there let's not forget the ddr 5 will just be another release in the pipeline and that will of course come with the new release of cpus motherboards and of course fancy RGB heat spreaders the technology itself is predicted to use a seven nanometer node process which is a 2.2 times shrink compared to that of DDR fours 16 nanometer when that was first released it will have the same 288 pins as ddr4 and provide overall transfer speeds faster than its predecessor though predicted to still lose out slightly when it comes to latency the first prototypes are already in the testing phase and everything looks to be going as smoothly as planned though one thing for sure is the insatiable demand for things like smartphones has in my opinion sure increase the demand for speeding up the before estimated 2020 release to the now predicted 2019 progression of transitioning from ddr4 to ddr5 with the following graphs showing some crazy stats where in 2012 the total demand for DDR memory was around 20% in smartphones fast-forward to 2018 that is now up to 45% and predicted to top 50% in the next few years quite scary when you think of it not quite pleasant since you guys might be watching this video on a smartphone though speaking of this video thank you guys greatly for watching it if you enjoyed it then be sure to hit that like button and let us know in the comments section below are you looking forward to ddr5 me personally yes because then we have hopefully more fabs that can produce more system memory and hopefully in turn that can have some kind of economies of scale that can kick in and bring the price down of ddr3 or ddr4 perhaps so we can start getting gaming PC's for cheaper let me know your thoughts and opinions in the comment section below love reading those comments as always and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now BAE you