Lexar
DDR5 · 6000 MT/s · CL30 · 2×16GB
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Last updated Oct 12, 2026
Lexar ARES RGB DDR5-6000 2x16GB price history in FR: current low €576.27, 12-month low €124.99, 12-month median €579.79.
Fair price — current price is 0% below the 3-month median.
Lexar's ARES line puts it in the same RGB gaming-memory bracket as the bigger DDR5 brands, with an addressable light bar built into the heatspreader that most motherboard RGB software will pick up and control.
This kit arrives as 2×16GB for 32GB, and reaches 6000 MT/s CL30 once the XMP or EXPO profile is applied in BIOS — left on its default JEDEC setting, it runs well under 6000 MT/s. A CL30 rating at that speed is comparatively tight, which is one thing worth checking against other kits at the same grade.
It's unbuffered, non-ECC UDIMM, built for desktop boards rather than laptops or servers.
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.
Capacity avoids stutter caused by running out of memory; speed affects how efficiently the CPU feeds data to the GPU. They solve different problems, and buying enough of the first one before spending on the second is the right order.