Patriot
DDR5 · 5600 MT/s · CL36 · 1×16GB
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Last updated Aug 20, 2026
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Patriot Viper Elite 5 DDR5-6000 1x16GB 5600 CL36 price history in US: current low $443.90, 12-month low $91.99, 12-month median $403.41.
Above typical — consider waiting — current price is 10% above the 12-month median.
Viper Elite 5 sits below Patriot's higher-end DDR5 kits — an aluminium heatspreader with no lighting, positioned as the plainer tier of the range. The name covers a wide spread of speed grades, from close to JEDEC baseline up to some of the higher ratings a DDR5 desktop kit reaches, so the rated number matters more than the family name on the box.
This listing is 1×16GB of DDR5 UDIMM, rated 5600 MT/s CL36 for 16GB, and another Viper Elite 5 kit at a different grade isn't a guaranteed match for pairing. As with any DDR5 desktop kit, that rated speed only applies once the board's EXPO or XMP profile is selected in firmware — check your board's supported speed ceiling before buying toward the faster end of this family.
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.