If you were planning to give your PC a huge memory boost, you’ve unfortunately missed the boat. The era of sky-high memory prices is here to stay for the foreseeable future.
As VideoCardz reports, some 192GB kits of memory will now cost you over $2,250. We’ve been tracking the rising price of DDR5 memory over the past few months, and some kits have seen price increases of nearly 200% since the start of summer.
That’s usually the case for the smaller 16GB and 32GB kits, which are popular among consumers. However, the price rises are also affecting larger kits. At this point, getting close to 200GB of memory is more expensive than buying the world’s most powerful graphics card.
VideoCardz cites Corsair’s 4-stick 192GB Vengeance modules (running at a mere 5,200 MT/s) with a price tag of $2,249. That’s over $200 more than the MSRP for Nvidia’s RTX 5090, although the Nvidia GPU also now sells for between $2,500 and $3,000. It may not be long before RTX graphics cards are consistently cheaper than system memory.
Corsair memory kits are astronomically expensive, but none quite as much as the 192GB. (Credit: Corsair/PCMag)
This problem is a global one, as VideoCardz highlights. It also tracked a kit of Asgard Valkyrie memory, consisting of four 64GB sticks (256GB total), running at 6,000 MT/s. Its price just hit 17,000 Yuan (RMP), which works out to $2,400 before taxes. There’s also a 192GB kit that has, admittedly, tight timings of CL28-36-36-72 and a 6,000 MT/s rating, but its price sits at 16,500 RMP, or around $2,330.
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With Micron recently announcing its exit from the consumer market with the shuttering of its Crucial brand and news that some major memory manufacturers are pivoting their fabrication lines toward HBM and Low-Power DDR memory to better supply their enterprise and AI customers, it seems likely that memory price rises and the consumer devices that rely on it, will all continue in 2026 and perhaps even beyond.
HP, Dell, Lenovo, and others have all announced impending price increases, so the next few years could be very expensive for anyone hoping to upgrade.
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