Corsair
DDR5 · 6000 MT/s · CL36 · 1×16GB
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Last updated Oct 7, 2026
Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 1x16GB CL36 price history in FR: current low €319.00, 12-month low €117.99, 12-month median €257.31.
Above typical — consider waiting — current price is 8% above the 3-month median.
Vengeance DDR5 comes in a second form at Corsair, without the RGB bar for builds where it isn't wanted. Rated speed and timings otherwise line up with the lit version — CL28 through CL40 across the same 6000 branding.
This 1×16GB kit is rated 6000 MT/s CL36. Capacity spans a single 16GB stick up to 96GB, with a 4x24GB quad-module configuration alongside the more common two-stick kits; four modules load a board's memory controller more heavily than two sticks of the same total capacity.
This is plain, non-illuminated UDIMM DDR5 for desktop boards, and the rated 6000 MT/s only applies once the XMP or EXPO profile is enabled.
Flare X5 is a heatspreader-only DDR5-6000 line built for clearance-constrained builds, and within this 6000 MT/s grade every listing shares that one headline speed — the CL bin and capacity are the only things actually separating listings.
FURY Beast at 6000 spans three CL grades under one name plus a four-module 64GB option its 5600 sibling doesn't offer, which makes matching the exact SKU more important here than with most families.
DDR5 doubled the bandwidth and moved power regulation onto the module. Whether that is worth paying for depends entirely on which platform you are building.
Crucial Pro trades looks for a compatibility-first, overclocking-headroom pitch, and within this 6400 MT/s grade, CAS latency -- not the shared headline speed -- is the number that actually separates one listing from another.
16 GB is no longer comfortable, 32 GB is the sensible default, and 64 GB is a workload decision rather than a future-proofing one.
A 2x16GB kit sits at the highest-volume point on the memory market, and volume is what actually sets price per gigabyte — not capacity, and not how new a kit's specification is.