Introduction

Corsair is a well-known brand name by this point in the United States and Europe, partially thanks to easily identifiable yellow product boxes. The company has been well established in the computer market for a number of years now, offering gaming peripherals, flash drives, SSDs, AIOs, watercooling hardware, power supplies and entire pre-built computers. Of course, let’s not forget about the highly successful memory division, which continually strives to offer the newest emerging technologies with the unmatched customer service Corsair is known for.

Corsair currently offers an assortment of memory products ranging from laptop DDR3 SODIMMs to PC enthusiast grade DDR5 memory. Using the well established DDR4 memory lines, Corsair brought forward both Vengeance and Dominator products, reusing the names and overall design language for the DDR5 iteration. Now nearly two years since the launch of Intel’s 12th Generation processors and DDR5 reaching consumer hands, the innovation continues with Non-Binary DRAM modules. These offer an increase in size compared to what is already available to consumers, offering 48 GB (2x 24 GB) and 96 GB (2x 48 GB) configurations.

In this review, we will be taking a closer look at the 48 GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5-5600 memory kit. Using conservative primary timings of 40-40-40-75 operating at 1.25 V for the 5600 MT/s Intel XMP profile, it provides a small performance gain compared to baseline JEDEC 4800 MT/s DDR5. While marketed exclusively towards consumers with Intel systems, this memory kit is unofficially supported by many AMD systems as well. Because this type of memory configuration is new to the market, we will be testing this on both our AMD and Intel test systems to see how it compares to 32 GB and 64 GB memory kits. As a bonus, a bit of overclocking as well!

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