We do not know how long the price reductions will last, but it is good to see that prices are finally going down. We have seen steadily rising DRAM prices over the past three quarters, but as DDR5 platforms are launched in the not-too-distant future, manufacturers will look to greener pastures, writes Tom’s Hardware, which reviews price changes.
prices began to fall 5-10 percent in both the U.S. and European markets. In Europe, Cowcotland reports that the price of several memory kits from Corsair and G.Skill has already fallen by € 5-15 this month. In the U.S., prices for 16GB and 32GB memory kits start to fall between $ 10 and $ 30 on average
CowCotland has several G.Skill and Corsair products, including Trident Z and Vengeance also reviewed price charts for product families. Some kits, such as G.Skill’s 2x8GB Trident Z and 2x4GB Aegis kits have dropped in price by just € 1-3. However, other kits, such as the G.Skill Trident Z 2x8GB 3000MHz kit, the Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x8GB 3200MHz kit and the G.Skill Trident Z 2x8GB 4000MHz kit, show a larger overall price drop of up to € 15-20
According to the US PCPartPicker, the same price reductions apply to the 32GB and 16GB stocks. In particular, Corsair’s 2x8GB LPX and RGB Pro 3200MHz CL16 kits have plummeted well, nearly $ 10-20 since July. The LPX stock has dropped from an average price of $ 90 a few weeks ago to just $ 70-75. The same goes for the RGB Pro kit, which peaked at an average of $ 101 in July and then fell to $ 88 in August.
G.Skill’s 32GB Ripjaws V 3200 MHz CL16 kit also it fell a lot: from $ 155 at the end of July now, to just $ 133 on August 17th. This is one of the biggest declines we’ve seen so far this month, with a good 32GB stock
The more popular memory stocks have finally gone through bigger price cuts, with the prices of rarer four-channel and high-memory stocks and they are still relatively unchanged.
Trendforce reported last week that memory market prices are expected to fall by 0-5 percent. This is because there is currently too much stock in the DRAM market, forcing memory manufacturers to try to get rid of unnecessary items by cutting prices.
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