Patriot
DDR5 · 5600 MT/s · CL46 · 2×16GB
Lowest price in GB across retailers
Patriot's Signature Line occupies the plain, no-frills end of the company's DDR5 catalogue — a heatspreader-clad kit with no premium branding, built for buyers who just want a working stick rather than a talking point.
Every listing here runs at the same 5600 MT/s rating, so what actually separates one listing from another is capacity and module count. This one is 2×16GB, giving 32GB total, at CL46. Because speed and timings don't vary across the range, checking the 2×16GB split against how many slots your board has is the more useful comparison than chasing a faster bin.
It's standard DDR5 UDIMM for desktop boards — nothing registered or buffered, so it drops into any consumer socket built for DDR5.
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.