At first we would like to thank Crucial for sending a sample of their 64GB Kit (2x32GB) DDR5-4800 SODIMM Memory Kit for testing and reviewing.

 

 

About Crucial:

 

“Looking for computer memory or a new storage drive? You've come to the right place!

 

Crucial is a global brand of Micron Technology, Inc., one of the largest memory and flash storage manufacturers in the world. We make computer memory upgrades (DRAM) and solid state drives (SSDs), and offer more than 250,000 upgrades for over 50,000 systems. For 17 years, we've sought to provide the Crucial Difference — award-winning products, outstanding support, and a team of memory and storage experts who explain complex lingo in everyday terms. We're here to help improve the performance of your system.

 

Crucial memory and SSDs have been qualified and approved by major original equipment manufacturers, and every single module that leaves our doors has been rigorously tested at the component and module level. That's a big deal in the memory industry, but it's not all. When it comes to our SSDs, each drive undergoes over a thousand hours of prerelease validation testing and hundreds of qualification tests to ensure optimal reliability and performance.

 

To find upgrades in just a few clicks, our award-winning Crucial System Scanner or Crucial Memory Advisor™ tool will identify compatible upgrades for your system, and if you order on Crucial.com, we guarantee compatibility — or your money back. With fast and free shipping, outstanding tech support, and an exhaustive library of articles, videos, and install guides, we make it easy to find and install the right upgrade for your system.

 

Let us be your memory and storage experts.”

 

Product Features:

 

Faster load times and file transfers

Crucial DDR5 Desktop Memory can empower your computer to transfer 50% more data than DDR4 at launch, resulting in faster load times, file transfers, downloads, refresh rates and less lag time5. Due to higher bus efficiency, DDR5 technology is not just faster than the previous generation, it’s better.

More responsive multitasking

Crucial DDR5 offers 50% faster speeds than DDR4 at launch, empowering users with extreme performance right out of the box. Even more impressive, Crucial DDR5 is optimized for enhanced performance and multitasking, not just during testing, but in real-world conditions. Opening more browser tabs and switching between apps now feels more responsive than ever.

Extreme innovation for stable performance

Crucial DDR5 takes an extreme step forward in engineering over the previous generation with two independent 32-bit channels per module for optimized performance. Designed with on-die ECC (ODECC) at the component level for long-term stability, Crucial DDR5 is engineered to maintain the same reliability as the previous generation, even with the rigorous demands of next-gen computing.

Optimized power efficiency

For improved efficiency and stability, Crucial DDR5 introduces on-module voltage regulation with a power management integrated circuit (PMIC), which was on the motherboard with older memory technologies. This results in improved signaling and cleaner power for the modules (DIMMs). Moreover, DDR5’s on-module operating voltage is only 1.1V compared to DDR4’s 1.2V.

Micron quality – tested reliability you can trust

As the vertically integrated consumer brand of Micron, Crucial is trusted by millions for reliability, performance, and compatibility. Unlike module assemblers, our unique relationship with Micron involves a deeper level of engineering collaboration to squeeze every ounce of performance from our products without compromising reliability. With Micron’s 43+ years of manufacturing excellence and Crucial’s 25+ years of consumer product development, Crucial DDR5 is backed by our limited lifetime warranty and delivers the powerful performance you can trust. When it comes to memory, don’t settle for less.

 

Product Specifications:

 

General tech specs

DIMM type: Unbuffered

Technology: DDR5

Density: 64GB Kit (2x32GB)

Module quantity : 2

Voltage: 1.1V/(5V ext)

Module type: SODIMM

Die Density: 16Gb

 

Default and performance recovery profiles

Default(JEDEC): 40-39-39

Warranty & returns

Warranty: Limited Lifetime

 

We will continue our upgrade journey of the Lenovo Legion Pro 5 16IRX8 laptop with a much higher capacity than before, a 64GB (2x32GB) kit from Crucial, running at 4800MHz and JEDEC timings in order to maintain maximum compatibility with most portable systems.

While with the Silicon Power 2x16GB DDR5 4800MHz CL40 SODIMM memory kit, we noted timings of 40-40-40-77-116, the Corsair kit presents itself better with timings of 40-39-39-77-116, while running at the same voltage of 1.1, but we will expect a similar performance from the system.

 

The kit is offered inside a small re-sealable plastic enclosure with a sticker on top; the sticker reveals information regarding the total capacity, running frequency, operating voltage, CAS latency, internal code name, but we will also receive the serial number:

 

 

 

We will get two modules with a nice, black PCB:

 

 

 

Each module does have a sticker placed on the frontal area of the PCB, with a QR code, the product code name, the total capacity, running speed, operating voltage but also the CAS latency. We will note here 8 ICs:

 

 

 

On the back, the module has installed the rest of 8 ICs:

 

 

Each Micron IC is labeled with the 3XA45 C9BNJ code name:

 

 

Our test system is composed of the Lenovo Legion Pro 5 16IRX8 in stock configuration, with a WQXGA IPS 240Hz screen, an Intel Core i5-13500HX CPU, 512GB SSD and GeForce RTX 4060 8GB dedicated video card. During the time of testing, the system was running the latest version of Windows 11 23H2, with all updates applied.

 

The stock kit employed the following timings:

 

 

 

The Crucial 64GB Kit (2x32GB) DDR5-4800 SODIMM memory kit did not have the memory specs readable via AIDA64, but only from CPU-Z:

 

 

 

 

3Dmark CPU Profile

 

 

3Dmark 3D Benchmarks

 

 

PCMark 10

 

 

CineBench R23

 

X264 Benchmark

 

 

Ashes of Singularity Escalation

 

 

SuperPI MOD 2.1

 

 

GeekBench 6

 

After a rather long initial boot time for training purposes, our Lenovo Legion Pro 5 16IRX8 laptop loaded Windows OS successfully and the test results were surprisingly good overall, in many cases exceeding the performance of the previously tested Silicon Power kit. The capacity is the main highlight for the Crucial DDR5-4800 64GB SODIMM kit, allowing for complicated and memory-intensive processes to be ran at the same time, such as virtual machines, encoding and rendering tasks and so on.

 

To be on the safe side ensuring compatibility within a large range of devices, Crucial only preloaded JEDEC timings on this kit. In terms of warranty, the product is backed by a limited lifetime program.

 

Online, we will find the kit for about 175 Euros, a fair price for the offered specifications.

 

Crucial 64GB Kit (2x32GB) DDR5-4800 SODIMM Memory Kit is Recommended for:

 

 

We would like to thank again to Crucial for making this review possible!