In The Lab: Double Capacity 2x32GB DDR4 from G.Skill and ZADAK
by Ian Cutress from on (#42M7Z)
One of the interesting things to come out of the news in recent weeks is the march to double capacity memory. In today's market, memory modules for consumer grade computers have a maximum of 16GB per module. This is unbuffered memory, and the standard for home computers and laptops. However recently there have been two major announcements causing that number to double from 16GB to 32GB: Samsung has developed double capacity ICs to drive up to 32GB per module with the same number of chips, but also a couple of DRAM vendors have found a way to put two times as many ICs on a 16GB module to make it up to 32GB. Both G.Skill and ZADAK fall into that latter category, and now we have both of these kits in the lab for review.