Crucial
DDR5 · 5600 MT/s · CL46 · 1×16GB
Lowest price in GB across retailers
Out of stock in GB
Crucial's DDR5 desktop UDIMM line sticks to two JEDEC-standard speed grades rather than a marketing-driven overclocked tier — 4800 and 5600, each with its own fixed timing rather than a spread of CL bins.
The 1×16GB kit here runs 5600 MT/s CL46; capacity in the family covers 16GB up to 64GB, including a single 64GB stick alongside the more common two-module paired kits. Because two speed grades sit under one product line, check the printed rating on the listing itself rather than assuming 5600.
This is unbuffered DDR5 UDIMM for standard desktop boards, without RGB lighting, and reaching the rated 5600 MT/s still depends on enabling the correct profile in BIOS.
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.