Kingston
DDR5 · 5600 MT/s · CL40 · 2×16GB
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Last updated Oct 12, 2026
Kingston FURY Impact DDR5-5600 2x16GB price history in CA: current low CA$814.85, 12-month low CA$189.99, 12-month median CA$673.98.
Above typical — consider waiting — current price is 9% above the 3-month median.
Under the FURY Impact name, Kingston sells SODIMM kits for gaming laptops and small-form-factor builds, offered both as single upgrade sticks and as matched two-module pairs. One family name covers a genuinely wide spread of ratings, from a modest JEDEC-adjacent speed up to considerably faster bins.
Look past the name to 2×16GB and the rated 5600 MT/s CL40: a 32GB kit at one speed grade is a different part from a same-capacity kit at another, and the faster sticks need the laptop's firmware to actually apply that profile rather than fall back to a safe default. A single-stick listing leaves a machine in single-channel until a second module joins it.
All of it is DDR5 SODIMM, built for laptop and mini-PC slots rather than desktop boards — confirm your machine's documentation lists this generation before ordering a replacement.
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.
Whether a laptop can be upgraded at all depends entirely on which of three physical memory formats it uses, and that has to be confirmed before comparing a single spec sheet.
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.