News Micron Unveils 24GB and 48GB DDR5 Memory Modules

[Admin]

Micron's DDR5-5200 and DDR5-5600 modules feature 8GB, 16GB, 24GB, 32GB, and 48GB capacity. They're AMD EXPO and Intel XMP 3.0 compatible.

Micron Unveils 24GB and 48GB DDR5 Memory Modules : Read more

 

[9410besi]

This is probably what Linus made in his Micron video 😊

 

[Eximo]

On the one hand, weird memory sizes. On the positive, a lot of 12GB and 24GB GPUs, so you can keep that VRAM to RAM ratio a nice round number.

Might get 48GB of ram for no reason on my next upgrade.

 

[cyrusfox]

This is odd, BUt I would consider 2x24GB as I rarely need all 64GB on my system, I throw most of it away to primo cache to speed things up.

 

[InvalidError]

On the positive, a lot of 12GB and 24GB GPUs, so you can keep that VRAM to RAM ratio a nice round number.

How is a ratio that has no importance whatsoever a 'positive' thing?

The real benefit of this half-step size is to give people cost-optimized options between 32GB, 64GB and 128GB using only one DIMM per channel for best compatibility. The "optimal amount of RAM per core" argument is specious at best since that would be entirely application-dependent, as is any tie with GPU VRAM size.

 

[Alex/AT]

The real benefit of this half-step size is

I suspect the real benefit of this half-step size is just programmatically disabling erring chips on already produced larger modules and selling this crap for a good price.

 

[jp7189]

Too bad these are so slow. Fine for server platforms, but no ethusiast would touch these. I'd much rather have 32GB fast ram instead of 48GB slow ram.

 

[bit_user]

I suspect the real benefit of this half-step size is just programmatically disabling erring chips on already produced larger modules and selling this crap for a good price.

No, it's not. The native capacity of the dies is actually different. There's no way they have so many dies with defects.

SK Hynix is also launching their own 3/4-sized parts:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sk-hynix-shows-off-48gb-and-96gb-ddr5-6400-memory-modules