What is LP DDR3?

[imhelpless]

What is LP DDR3? Is it slower/faster than traditional DDR3?

 

[rgd1101]

LP for low power
source
https://www.google.com/search?q=LP+DDR3

 

[imhelpless]

So it's the same as DDR3, but just a lower power consumption?

 

[ko888]

So it's the same as DDR3, but just a lower power consumption?

No. LPDDR3 (Low Power DDR3) is a mobile DDR SDRAM standard, designed for mobile computing.

Provide us with examples of the DIMMs you are looking at so that we're not guessing at what you're talking about.

 

[USAFRet]

Either Low Power, or Low Profile (without the fancy useless fin things)

Link to what you're talking about, so we can say definitively.

 

[imhelpless]

It's for a laptop (Acer swift 3) Im looking at the ram specs and it says LP DDR3 for this model.

 

[USAFRet]

It's for a laptop (Acer swift 3) Im looking at the ram specs and it says LP DDR3 for this model.

OK, Low Power.
For a laptop. This is normal.

That's what it takes, that's what you use.

 

[imhelpless]

So it's just a lower power consuming ddr3?

Thank you for the replies guys.

 

[TJ Hooker]

So it's just a lower power consuming ddr3?

Eh, I don't know if I'd say that. It has different packaging/pinout, and different parameters, such that LP and regular DDR3 are in no way compatible.

AFAIK, LP and regular DDR are sort of two different streams of memory tech, that are developed in parallel and somewhat independently.