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Patriot Signature Premium DDR5-5600 2x16GB 4800 CL40
DDR5 · 4800 MT/s · CL40 · 2×16GB
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32 GBSpeed
4,800 MT/sCAS latency
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Overview
The DDR5 version of Signature Premium carries the same name as Patriot's DDR4 line but nothing else about the platform is shared — this family actually spans two different speed grades rather than one fixed rating.
Listings here run from one end of 4800 MT/s up to the other at matching CL40, and a 32GB kit at the lower grade is not the same product as a same-capacity kit at the higher one — read the specific listing rather than assuming uniformity. Configuration across the range is given as 2×16GB.
As with any DDR5 UDIMM, the rated speed only applies once the board's memory profile is enabled in firmware; left on defaults it runs at a lower JEDEC speed instead.
Technical Specifications
Memory
- Memory type
- DDR5
- Capacity
- 32 GB
- Modules
- 2
- Module size
- 16 GB
Speed & timings
- Speed
- 4,800 MT/s
- CAS latency
- CL40
Form factor & features
- Form factor
- UDIMM
- Category
- desktop
- Brand
- Patriot
- ECC
- ✗
- RGB
- ✗
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