News Just In Time for Ryzen 7000, DDR5 Prices Fall to More Affordable Levels

[Admin]

DDR5 prices have dropped immensely over the past six months. Prices of baseline DDR5 kits are now far more reasonable, if DDR4 is not an option.

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[KananX]

Exactly how AMD planned. Soon the real DDR5/PCIE 5.0 platform arrives, fully featured with 24 lanes.

 

[LuxZg]

Give it another 5-6 months and hopefully market sorts itself a little just in time for Zen 4, AM5, DDR5. With GPUs also going down finally, maybe by year's end I can get me a whole PC upgrade at last.

 

[wrex247]

Still 2x more expensive than DDR4

 

[bjnmail]

8GB DDR5 DIMMs (2x8GB kits) are terrible for performance, gaming most especially. They use the same 16Gbit (2GB) ICs, but instead of populating 8 banks on 8 bank groups, they populate merely 4. So you lose half the interleaving and there is a significant performance penalty compared to 16GB DIMMs. DDR5 16GB DIMMs already cause 1% lows to suffer, and these are even worse.

32GB DIMMs are the sweet spot for DDR5 IC density vs performance. But they're so damn expensive.

8GB DDR5 DIMMs shouldn't even be in the conversation outside of absolute rock bottom budget systems.

 

[dk382]

I've been seeing some motherboard/DDR5 or SSD/DDR5 combo deals on Newegg and Amazon lately that actually bring the prices even closer to DDR4. I think it was Gigabyte who was selling their DDR5 motherboards bundled with DDR5-5200 or so at prices very similar to equivalent DDR4 mobos plus DDR4-3600CL16. The combo discounts were as high as -$180. I couldn't believe it.

 

[KananX]

I saw decent high grade DDR5 6000 (2x16GB) recently for 300 bucks, that’s a really good price and I think prices will come down at the end of the year as well. It’s not nearly as bad as before.

 

[dk382]

I saw decent high grade DDR5 6000 (2x16GB) recently for 300 bucks, that’s a really good price and I think prices will come down at the end of the year as well. It’s not nearly as bad as before.

Memory of that speed really needs to be below $200 for 32GB if AMD wants AM5 to receive widespread adoption.

 

[KananX]

Memory of that speed really needs to be below $200 for 32GB if AMD wants AM5 to receive widespread adoption.

Strange comment, but DDR5 of that quality won’t ever cost under 200, it’s simply more expensive to produce. 250 minimum, like I said, the price is decent.

 

[dk382]

Strange comment, but DDR5 of that quality won’t ever cost under 200, it’s simply more expensive to produce. 250 minimum, like I said, the price is decent.

Then the future of personal computing is doomed if we'll be stuck with DDR4 platforms as the only affordable platforms for the rest of time.

I don't think this will be true, though. Decent quality DDR5 like the kind being discussed will eventually be affordable for the masses.

edit: and to be clear, I'm not saying this as pro-Intel (I'm on a Ryzen CPU right now lol). I think any DDR5-exclusive platform will face serious struggles with adoption if if costs really don't come back down. 32GB of midrange DDR5 will need to be $100, and higher-end stuff will need to be $150 - $200 like it is now with DDR4. I also think that DDR5-6000 is more of the baseline of what people should want for their gaming PCs since that's when the upgrade over DDR4 starts to become apparent. Hence why I think it needs to cost below $200. Whale-class products that are pushing the boundaries (7000+ MHz kits, for instance) will still exist and cost a fortune, but the 6000 MHz tier needs to be more mainstream.

We're getting there, though. Here's a bundle where some DDR5-5200 costs roughly the same as DDR4 when you account for the price of the bundled SSD. I'm seeing kits of DDR5-6000 below $300 now. I think the industry realizes that it needs to reach these price goals eventually.

 

[KananX]

Then the future of personal computing is doomed if we'll be stuck with DDR4 platforms as the only affordable platforms for the rest of time.

I think you misunderstood me or maybe I didn’t word it clear enough. 300 bucks for a high rate kit is a good price, I didn’t say it’s a good price for a beginner or mid range computer build. There are cheaper kits of course if a good one starts at 300 bucks. A while back the same kit was at 500 bucks afaik. So it’s fine. Prices are coming down. DDR5 isn’t comparable to the way DDR4 took compared to 3, it has higher complexity involved through extra chips, so that’s why it takes a bit more time for prices to come down.

 

[DiegoSynth]

I still don't know why 4k is not the standard nowadays so we can focus in more important things like features instead of VRAM.
It's like if we were still struggling with 100MB hard drives and our productivity was conditioned by this. I mean: we have all the tools to get this sorted out and look into something else: for how long are they gonna milk this "issue" that is no longer an issue? Why do developers need to implement both rasterization and ray tracing when they could just do ray tracing with no tricks and have lighter, cleaner, simpler and better software? And all of this both for Nvidia cards and AMD. So redundancy x 4. All because of greed.
Nvidia: stop this crap, let us progress. NOW.

 

[dk382]

I don't know why this thread was necromancied by that totally unrelated comment, but now that it has and I got a notification for it, I just want to gloat about how right I was and how wrong that now-banned user was. 32GB of DDR5-6000 is now under $100, and it was below $200 when AM5 launched. $250 min, lmao.