It’s some £30 cheaper at CCL than it is at Amazon UK.
DDR5 RAM arrived late last year, but it’s taken until now to see the first semi-reasonable prices for a kit of next-generation memory. CCL are currently selling a kit of Crucial DDR5-4800 for £89.94, more than £30 cheaper than thesame kit is on Amazon.
Hardware wizard Jamestested DDR5 vs DDR4earlier this year and found that it does offer a performance advantage over DDR4 in some games - but DDR4 remains the better value choice. However, that calculus is slowly shifting, and DDR5 is starting to become a viable option - helped of course by price drops like this one.
I ran a similar set of experiments betweenDDR4 and DDR5 for Digital Foundry last month, and found that performance deltas between high-spec DDR4 and entry-level DDR5 ranged from 1% (inCrysis 3 Remastered, Counter-Strike Global Offensive andFar Cry 6) to 25% (inAshes of the SingularityEscalation). If you instead look at fast DDR5-6600, the percentages tend to increase by around 5% across the board.
So some games can exhibit huge gains, but mostly you’re buying into a DDR5 motherboard to be able to put in faster RAM a few years down the line, when faster modules are available and prices are more reasonable. If that’s you, then this deal is a solid choice to get you sorted for the short term!
