DDR4 vs DDR5 RAM: What's different and which one should you buy?

To be clear, DDR5 is not backward compatible with DDR4 because it uses a different DIMM slot DDR4 and DDR5 Alder Lake motherboards will be

DDR5 and LPDDR5 The good thing about the DDR memories is that most of the DDR based laptops come with multiple memory slots and removable RAM

ddr5 in ddr4 slot Take a stick of DDR4 memory, place it onto the converter card, and insert it into a motherboard's DDR5 slot However, if the idea is simple

ddr5 slot Having trouble deciding between DDR5 or DDR4 memory for your Alder Lake desktop build? You're not alone—this motherboard can't decide either