High memory prices continue to make PC upgrades expensive, but Corsair's Vengeance RGB DDR5-6000 RAM kit gets a rare discount
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High memory prices continue to make PC upgrades expensive, but Corsair's Vengeance RGB DDR5-6000 RAM kit gets a rare discount
DDR5 memory is crazily expensive right now, especially compared to this time last year, and big, genuine discounts are hard to find. Case in point, the price of the 16GB Corsair Vengeance RGB RAM kit has dropped to $260 (was $285) at Newegg.A modest saving, but given the outrageous prices we've seen on memory recently, we'll take any discount we can get. Here, you're getting two 8GB DDR5-6000 modules with CL36 latency and 36-44-44 timings. Suppo…
A new report by the firm Semiconductor Insiders, points out that DRAM retail prices are accelerating as AI-driven scarcity reaches the consumer channel. According to the German 3DCenter hardware site, the August DDR5 retail price index reached 41 points more than [...] The post Report : Memory prices continue to rise worldwide and shortages first appeared on TransMedia increase.
RAM prices are out of control, jumping nearly 500% since 2025
The 12-month increase for RAM prices has ballooned to levels that have made some kits unattainable for certain consumers, specifically those who can’t spend thousands of dollars to build a gaming PC. The RAM shortage, or the memory crisis as it’s sometimes referred to, has hit a large portion of the consumer electronics industry particularly hard. While consumers are paying more for RAM kits to put inside their PCs, manufacturers like HP, Dell, …
Memory Prices Climb 500% In 12 Months
RAM prices have exploded over the past year, with some DDR5 kits approaching 500% year-over-year increases and a 128GB kit now selling for $3,399, which is more than 10 times its previous low. Tom's Hardware reports: Things improve as you step down the memory capacities and speed tiers, but not as much as we'd like. You're still looking at $392 for a memory kit that was just $72 last year. To reinforce the point, I pulled the latest average pric…
Morgan Stanley Raises Alarm Bells: DDR4 Prices Will Jump By 50% In Q3, As Memory Makers Starve Legacy DRAM To Feed HBM
The ongoing supply squeeze in mature DRAM and NAND chips is about to get a lot worse, as per the latest projections from Morgan Stanley. Meanwhile, the retail prices for newer DDR5 chips are also showing no sign of cooling down, with spot prices for DDR5-5600/6400 24GB rising by another 8 percent in August alone. Morgan Stanley says the oncoming supply squeeze in DDR4 and SLC NAND is mostly supply-driven, as memory makers continue to shift capac…
According to an evaluation of Tom's hardware, the prices for DDR5 memory have sometimes increased fivefold within a year. A 128-gigabyte kit now costs up to ten times the lowest price ever recorded. According to the price data of the comparison portal PCPartPicker evaluated by Tom's hardware, a 64-gigabyte DDR5-6000 kit in August 2025 cost on average about 222 US dollars, in August 2026 already about 1,272 US dollars, an increase of 473 percent.…
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