Kingston
DDR5 · 5600 MT/s · CL36 · 1×16GB
Lowest price in CA across retailers
Last updated Oct 12, 2026
Kingston FURY Beast DDR5-5600 1x16GB CL36 price history in CA: current low CA$406.12, 12-month low CA$99.00, 12-month median CA$266.22.
Price history is aggregated from tracked listings at Newegg Canada.
Fair price — current price is 4% above the 3-month median.
Price history is aggregated from tracked listings at Newegg Canada.
Kingston brings the FURY Beast badge to DDR5 too, and the 5600 tier is the plainer of its speed grades — no lighting, just a low shell over the modules.
The 1×16GB kit here is rated 5600 MT/s CL36, and within this family the CL36/CL40 split is really the whole story: two listings can share the same speed and capacity while landing on different sides of that timing gap. Capacities run from 8GB single sticks up to a 64GB pair, all under the same name.
Everything in this family is plain UDIMM DDR5 without RGB, intended for standard 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.
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.