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64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months (www.techradar.com)

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[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

Cost me 200eur towards the end of 2023. Crazy, I'd sell it if I didn't need it.

[–] melfie@lemy.lol 7 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

2026 is going to suck for hardware, but 2027 might be better if this nonsense blows over. For one thing, AMD’s RDNA 5 was announced for 2027, which is supposed to be more comparable to Nvidia for compute workloads, including real RTX cores. AMDs recent SoCs have been pretty impressive, so I’m looking forward to AMD SoCs that are competitive with Nvidia discrete GPUs beyond just rasterization, except without artificially constrained VRAM and lower power requirements.

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[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 54 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Increasing RAM (from 16) and SSD space (from .5TB) on a laptop now is easily +$1k and up.

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[–] darkmogool@feddit.org 1 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

what a stupid metric…

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (5 children)

TBF that is a crucial ram stick in the picture, those are rare shinies now

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[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 18 points 1 day ago

The DDR4 sticks I got 18 months ago now cost 300-400% the price they were, so it's not just DDR5.

... and I just realised the title doesn't actually mean "DDR5 prices", but that was an easy misinterpretation on my part, so I guess I'll post this anyway.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 day ago (4 children)

My RAM kit is worth more than my GPU 🥲

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[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Apple: see!? We do not inflate our ram prices!!!

[–] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 day ago

I used to scavenge all the ram I needed from the trash, nothing in months

[–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The 64gb memory i bought in june are up 400%

Still cheaper than my macbook air though

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[–] sommerset@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 day ago

I can't believe I snagged strix halo 128GB ram mini PC for 1600$ when it first came out

[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (4 children)

This is the future ~~liberals~~ no one wants.

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