Kingston
DDR5 · 6400 MT/s · CL32 · 1×16GB
Lowest price in CA across retailers
Last updated Oct 12, 2026
Kingston FURY Beast DDR5-6400 1x16GB price history in CA: current low CA$442.79, 12-month low CA$75.72, 12-month median CA$413.98.
Above typical — consider waiting — current price is 19% above the 3-month median.
This faster FURY Beast family runs at a higher fixed clock than Kingston's entry DDR5 Beast kits, with capacity as the main variable across the listings — from a single-stick kit up through larger dual-module sets. As with the rest of the Beast range, the naming covers more than one physical configuration, so it's worth reading past the headline speed.
Every kit is rated 6400 MT/s CL32, meaning the comparison between listings comes down to 16GB and 1×16GB rather than clock or latency. A single-module kit runs single-channel regardless of how many slots your board has open, while the multi-stick kits here take advantage of dual-channel — a meaningful difference even though the headline speed and timing are identical on paper.
It's unbuffered, non-ECC UDIMM, built for standard desktop sockets, and the rated speed depends on enabling the XMP profile in BIOS rather than running automatically at JEDEC defaults.
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.
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.
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.
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.