Hardware Unboxed on X: Just to clarify DDR5 is not backwards

DDR4 vs DDR5 - will it be worth the upgrade? ddr4 slot vs ddr5 You can never have enough memory bandwidth, and DDR5 helps feed that insatiable need for speed While DDR4 DIMMs top out at gigatransfers ddr4 in ddr5 slot DDR5 memory capacity DDR5 has the potential for up to 4x the memory of DDR4: up to 64GB per chip for UDIMM memory

ddr4 sodimm slot The DDR4 RAM power management is directly handled by the motherboard The difference with DDR5 is that there's a power management integrated