G.Skill
DDR4 · 4000 MT/s · CL15 · 2×8GB
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Last updated Sep 25, 2026
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G.Skill Trident Z Royal DDR4-4266 2x8GB 4000 CL15 price history in CA: current low CA$220.31, 12-month low CA$125.13, 12-month median CA$263.92.
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Price history is aggregated from tracked listings at Newegg Canada.
Trident Z Royal swaps G.Skill's usual finned heatspreader for a crystalline diffuser over the RGB lighting — a design aimed squarely at a visible build rather than at being the plainest option in the range.
This family spans a real range of speed grades rather than one fixed rating: a 4000 MT/s kit at CL15 is a different bin from another sold under the same name, and 16GB here comes as 2×8GB. Check both the MT/s figure and the CAS number together rather than assuming the Royal name pins down one spec.
All of it is DDR4 UDIMM, unbuffered and non-ECC, for desktop boards. Reaching any of these rated speeds needs the XMP profile enabled in BIOS — DDR4 boots at a much slower JEDEC default otherwise.
Vengeance LPX earns its long shelf life through breadth and a low-profile heatspreader, not through any single standout spec — the timing bin on the specific listing is what actually decides whether a given kit is a good buy.
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.
A dying memory generation does not get cheaper on its way out — it gets more expensive, because the economics of end-of-life manufacturing are the opposite of the economics of a maturing one.
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.
CAMM2 and SODIMM are physically incompatible laptop memory formats. The difference is not speed at a given rating but how many channels each module carries, how the module attaches, and whether a machine can ever add memory rather than replace it.