Corsair
DDR5 · 6400 MT/s · CL32 · 2×16GB
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Last updated Oct 12, 2026
Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR5-6400 2x16GB price history in ES: current low €634.75, 12-month low €212.24, 12-month median €664.53.
Good time to buy — current price is 7% below the 3-month median.
Same aluminium build as Corsair's non-RGB Vengeance kits, but every module in this family adds an addressable lighting bar across the top, controlled through iCUE or a compatible board's own sync software. It's sold at one clock speed throughout, so the lighting and the capacity ladder are what distinguish this family from its siblings.
6400 MT/s is the rating across the board, and CL32 covers a fairly wide range — the tightest-timed kits here are a noticeably better bin than the loosest, despite sharing a product name. Capacity runs from smaller kits up to large multi-module sets, and a 2×16GB configuration at the top of that range asks more of a board's memory controller than the smaller 32GB kits do.
It's unbuffered, non-ECC UDIMM, built for standard desktop sockets, and the rated speed only applies with the XMP profile enabled in BIOS.
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.
Capacity avoids stutter caused by running out of memory; speed affects how efficiently the CPU feeds data to the GPU. They solve different problems, and buying enough of the first one before spending on the second is the right order.