Consumer DDR5 RAM is coming in 2021 In the hardware world, we’ve gone through generations upon generations of graphics cards and processors, but we’re still rocking the same DDR4 RAM technology that has been in the best gaming PCs for the past six years. Although RAM isn’t the most exciting of topics, the arrival of DDR5 this year should be welcomed, with big performance improvements. Memory manufacturer TeamGroup has plans to initially release a single 16GB DDR5 stick for consumers with a frequency of 4,800MHz, a big improvement over what we’ve seen in most DDR4 sticks – while Corsair did offer a 5,000MHz 16GB DDR4 kit, it was prohibitively expensive at around $1,000.