There is no doubt that one of the big novelties of the season is the new memory standard, which can be used as memory in the new Intel Core 12, but the novelty as well as the additional performance they offer compared to DDR4 have made DDR5 run out. What are the causes and what is happening?
There is no doubt that we are facing the boom in launching new Intel desktop processors and the most passionate are taking the opportunity not only to get the motherboards for their processors with Alder Lake-S architecture, but also the new DDR5 memory and it is It looks like you can’t buy it.
DDR5 is out of stock everywhere
One of the hallmarks of the Intel Core 12 is the fact that it supports both DDR4 and DDR5. What’s behind it? As the new standard was launched recently and the manufacturing ramp is not as high as DDR4, let’s not forget that at present the new RAM standard can only be used in the new processors of the brand founded by Gordon Moore.
The fact that few DDR5 chips have been made is what has exhausted it, well it is true that we have motherboards with the Z690 chipset that support DDR4 memory, but a lot of new users want to have full hardware. new generation and that includes the entire package. So if you bought a motherboard with DDR5 support, you are very unlucky, there is no RAM for your PC.
At the moment, we don’t know how the transition will go, but with the rumors that Raptor Lake, the upgraded version of Alder Lake and therefore the potential Intel Core 13, will continue to use DDR4 memory, it looks like we will. See DDR5 is much rarer memory than its predecessor not only in what little remains from 2021, but also much of 2022.
DDR4 Limits to Intel Core 12
The engineering team responsible for designing the Alder Lake-S architecture took DDR5 bandwidth into account when designing new CPUs, so using slower RAM in theory means not take all of its performance.
The disadvantage of DDR5 is that it sacrifices latency in exchange for bandwidth, for example a Core i9-12900K with a DDR4-3800 performs the same in terms of access time (no bandwidth) as using a DDR5-6200, which at the moment is much more expensive.
It is not known if the RAM memory manufacturers were ignoring this and what is the fastest DDR5 that can be installed in a PC with the new Intel processor. But it’s safe to say that using DDR5 doesn’t make a difference from the levels that were expected (at least for now). Perhaps manufacturers such as Samsung or Micron were aware of this fact and deduced that it is not yet the time for DDR5, hence its limited manufacture and subsequent distribution and at the same time the rumors. according to which Intel could delay the presentation of Alder Lake, which It was not like that and now we are in a difficult situation.
