Sabrent Rocket DDR5 32GB 4800MHz Memory Review

A Closer Look

Once the memory is out of its packaging, we can take our first look at the modules and straight away, notice a few interesting things. Again, keeping with consistency, the modules really do just look like the bigger brother of the Rocket NVME storage drives, and I like that, especially if your PC has the opportunity to show both types of products off. The other big thing I noticed is that while from a distance, it looks like the modules have included heatspreaders, it’s actually a stickered label.

The back of the module looks very similar to the front, with some simplistic branding, but also includes the speed and model number of the modules

Along the top, it’s very simple with a small Sabrent Rocket logo along with the speed and capacity of the module.

With the fact that these memory modules don’t feature heatspreaders in the typical sense of the word, we were reluctant in attempting to remove the paper in fear of potentially damaging the memory ICs beneath. Instead, we reached out to Sabrent who kindly provided us with some pictures including this one showing a single sided design that uses eight 2GB memory chips, giving us a total of 16GB capacity per single stick.

As you may be aware, one of the big features of DDR5 is the inclusion of the voltage regulator being on the DIMMs themselves now, and not on the motherboard which allows for lower voltages, better efficiency and simpler designs overall.

The kit uses SK Hynix memory chips with part number H5CG48MEBD X014 151A. As DDR5 is still relatively new in the grand scheme of things, not much is known about these particular parts, but we have seen it used on other high-speed memory kits from other brands.

Flipping the module around and we find the other side to be completely blank. No circuitry, no RGB controller, nothing. It’s likely as higher capacity kits come to market, the other side will be utilised.