Memory Prices to Plunge Up to 25% In 2019

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"The crypto craze has finally petered out as the price of cryptocurrencies plunge at coin exchanges, and the sudden drop in demand has surely had a role in reduced graphics memory pricing."

And a flood of cheap, used video cards on the second-hand market. Got a perfectly functional GTX 1070 TI for $350.
 
This is just a prediction, it may not be true as DRANExchange prediction changes as market condition changes, that is, they are constantly revising their predictions. I would take their prediction as a grain of salt.
 
What is missing in mention is that Samsung is building a new memory manufacturing facility in South Korea that is rumored to be able to switch from NAND to DRAM memory depending on RAM type demands (NAND for smart phones specifically). It is expected to be operation full capacity in 2021 (sorry, I don't have the link but it was in an EE Times article).

What we have witnessed is a perfect storm of demand and lack of supply. There is zero evidence of the Big Three memory makers (Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron respectively) have worked in collusion to market price fix. The EU would have been all over it if true since those busybody bureaucrats are so lawsuit-happy in private sector business. The growth of smart phone demand, crypto-currency mining, and a host of other devices including smart appliances that require memory chips have put a strain on the video card and PC memory markets.

I saw this coming last year and dumped one of my two GTX 970s running in SLI and bought a 1080 Ti before prices got out of hand. Video cards, at least from Nvidia, are now returning to sane prices. Unfortunately PC/laptop DDR4 memory has not come down in price, and that is one reason I have held out on replacing my aging Haswell chipset (it will be 4 years old this fall) for a new build. I have never gone more than two or three years before upgrading to a new chipset. And yes, the lack of Intel's tick/tock progress between each new generation means that we can get by longer without needing to upgrade.
 


You didn't save much... I've seen new ones going for around $380.
 
...this bodes well for my monster dual CPU render box project. Yeah GPUs can do it faster but are limited when it comes to performing large format high quality render jobs for art prints. Once a scene exceeds VRAM the process either crashes or dumps to the CPU and system memory (depending on the render engine), so all those CUDA/RTX/Tensor cores or Stream Processors become worthless. It's not unusual for such a file to exceed 70 - 80 GB which even with the compression VRAM offers would require the resources of the new (and very expensive) higher end Quadro RTX or Volta cards I'm talking the 6000, 8000, or GV 100) that would cost much more than it would take to build the render box should this prognostication pan out.
 


Yep well if you need it now, you need it now. That's like right now while we are waiting for the upcoming GTX 2080 GPUs. If I had a GPU that died, I'd need one right now and be forced to buy a two year old Pascal GTX 10xx whatever.
 
I just wonder if we'll see 2013 prices again anytime. I lucked out when I built my 3570K system. 16GB RAM for $60. It wasn't the cheapest either it was a good quality low latency Crucial set. I hate to think I could have just gone with 32GB for $120. Luckily I don't have much need for it.
 
And the only DDR4 sticks that havn't budged in price nearly at all is 3200 cas 14 sticks. I'm just not going to pay $400 for 32gb (1x16gb). Greedy bastards!
 
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