TEAMGROUP Unveils High-Capacity Non-Binary DDR5 Overclocking Memory Modules
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D1stRU3T0R
Finally an accepted and awaited non-binary thing /s
ttnuagmada
Keep the wokeness outa my dang computer hardware! I'm gonna shoot up all of my TeamGroup hardware with an AR-15 just to show everyone i mean business.
schmidtbag
Unless it's comprised of qubits, I don't understand how RAM can be non-binary no matter what definition you use.
Neo Cyrus
Yeah I'd also like to know what the hell they mean by "non-binary".
spine
Also free from trans fats.
Venix
I would like to know that too .
Kwisatz
Valken
What does it have to do with RAM?! I'm all for people to choose whatever for themselves but on a piece of hardware??
Venix
This is from the link @Kwisatz posted ! Enlightening! Thanks brother!
What the heck is non-binary memory?
Non-binary memory isn't actually all that special. What makes non-binary memory different from standard DDR5 comes down to the chips used to make the DIMMs.
Instead of the 16Gb — that's gigabit — modules found on most DDR5 memory today, non-binary DIMMs use 24Gb DRAM chips. Take 20 of these chips and bake them onto a DIMM, and you're left with 48GB of usable memory after you take into account ECC and metadata storage.
According to Brian Drake, senior business development manager at Micron, you can usually get to around 96GB of memory on a DIMM before you’re usually forced to resort to advanced packaging techniques.
@schmidtbag (just so you see it too!)
tsunami231
this make less sense, 24gb x20 (take 20) is 480gb.... how does one end up with 48gb usable use more chips to get less? also dont see how that makes it non binary, everthing digtial is binary 0's and 1's last i checked
the only that made sense was price could be "less for 48gb vs 68gb? but but using more chips to make lower amount doesn't seem like something that would lower the price but actual cost more. maybe i just not understand said article
GoldenTiger
Gigabits, not gigabytes 🙂.
TLD LARS
When decoding binary code the 1 and 0 are converted with the numbers 1. 2. 4. 8. 16. 32. 64.......... and that is also how memory addresses work.
So when addressing 24GB memory the same amount of addresses as a 32GB module is needed (one more then 16GB), but some of the chips are just not there to store data.
The non binary does not refer to 0 and 1, but the binary weighted numbers used when converting instead.
tsunami231
still using 32gb module to make 24gb module, is like wasting they other 8gb. they still have pay for 32gb module, that part that dont make sense i dont see how that would make thing cheaper.
schmidtbag
As pointed out earlier, the extra is used for metadata and ECC. When you're talking low-voltage chips with capacities this high, I would not regard ECC as a waste. Perhaps if you're not doing anything important it's fine, but if you ever do real work, I'd rather have the ECC.
tsunami231
not talking about ECC part I talking about the fact there USING 32gb module to MAKE a 24gb, how exactly would that lower cost? if any thing it would be same if not more cause they have modify said 32gb module. I get what there doing but just dont see how it result in lower price memory modules. 24gb setup would cost the same as 32gb setup cause 24gb setup still has an actual 32gb module.
I would even had hard time understanding how 24gb module with ECC would cost less then 32gb module with ECC as though would at core still have 32gb module?
