DDR4 vs DDR5: Should you upgrade?

You cannot use DDR5 RAM into DDR4 motherboard socket Since DDR4 and DDR5 memory

Latency is actually broadly similar between DDR5 and DDR4, and that's because the CAS latency number only tells part of the story The

ddr4 slot However, since DDR4 and DDR5 don't share the same pinouts, you cannot put DDR5 RAM into a DDR4 motherboard If you have a 12th or 13th-gen Intel

ddr4 and ddr5 same slot Just to clarify DDR5 is not backwards compatible with DDR4, it's a completely different DIMM slot There will be DDR4 and DDR5 Alder Lake