Micron is the first company who created the world’s first DDR4 memory and demonstrated it in the CES conference during January 2013. The new generation of desktop/laptop memory DDR 4 will provide higher signaling speeds and larger bandwidth which are ideal for gaming, work and other heavy data intensive multi-tasking computers.
Let’s get a little overview of the pin count for the four generations of the main memory:
- DDR1 184 PIN
- DDR2 240 PIN
- DDR3 240 PIN
- DDR4 284 PIN
DDR4 being the latest in the class utilizes 284 communication pins with the motherboard to offer faster and more reliable communication with more bandwidth and higher clock-rate.
Benefits of DDR4 Memory Technology:
- DDR4 provides almost double the performance than DDR3
- Speedy data transfer starting with 2400 MT/s (megatransfers per second)
- Up to 40 % Less power consumption than DDR3 memory
- Larger number of pins and 4 bank groups (total 16 internal banks) ensures better burst accesses
- Data rates available will be 1600, 1866, 2133, 2400, 2667, 3200
- The module dentisty for single channel communication will be from 2GB up to 16GB
- Higher-capacity memory subsystem, with up to 8-die stacking
- Early fault detection and improved system reliability through JTAG
DDR4 Memory Lower power consumption:
The latest generation of memory will utilize 20-40% less electricity with as low as 1.2 Voltage enabling it to generate less heat release and better performance. So the result is that your memory module demand less power, which will directly impact the needs of cooling the modules during heavy loads such as 3d gaming, perhaps you will no longer need dedicated cooling jackets/ fans for your memory modules alone. Less power usage will ensure heat spreaders will be enough to take care of the heated RAM modules.
DDR4 RAM Higher Base Clock-speed:
DDR4 will be ideal for computers that seek faster speed because the communication channels will be able to run at bus speed of 2133MHz making it the fastest memory available to date. With largest available data rate of 3200 just image what you could achieve with overclock speeds?
Larger Size DDR4 Memory Modules:
This is the most anticipated part of fourth generation of memory which we were waiting for a long time. The launch of DDR4 seems promising as we will be able to get larger size memory modules as big as 16GB on a single RAM module. This means on a laptop you can get as high as 32GB memory combined whereas on the desktop this can go as high as 64GB which will be lightening fast speeds for a monster computer.
