{"id":167084,"date":"2025-11-25T20:15:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/gpu-prices-are-coming-to-earth-just-as-ram-costs-shoot-into-the-stratosphere\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T20:15:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:15:37","slug":"gpu-prices-are-coming-to-earth-just-as-ram-costs-shoot-into-the-stratosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/gpu-prices-are-coming-to-earth-just-as-ram-costs-shoot-into-the-stratosphere\/","title":{"rendered":"GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>It\u2019s not a bad time to upgrade your gaming PC. Graphics card prices in the 2020s have undulated continuously as the industry has dealt with pandemic and AI-related shortages, but it\u2019s actually possible to get respectable mainstream- to high-end GPUs like <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/06\/review-at-349-amds-16gb-radeon-rx-9060-xt-is-the-new-midrange-gpu-to-beat\/\">AMD\u2019s Radeon RX 9060 XT<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/03\/amd-radeon-rx-9070-and-9070-xt-review-rdna-4-fixes-a-lot-of-amds-problems\/\">9070 series<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/06\/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5060-ti-and-5060-review-putting-the-mid-in-mid-range\/\">Nvidia\u2019s RTX 5060<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/03\/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5070-review-no-its-not-4090-performance-at-549\/\">5070<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/01\/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5080-review-more-like-a-4080-super-super\/\">5080 series<\/a> for at or slightly under their suggested retail prices right now. This was close to impossible through the spring and summer.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s\u00a0<em>not<\/em> a good time to build a new PC or swap your older motherboard out for a new one that needs DDR5 RAM. And the culprit is a shortage of RAM and flash memory chips that has suddenly sent SSD and (especially) memory prices into the stratosphere, caused primarily by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/pc-components\/storage\/perfect-storm-of-demand-and-supply-driving-up-storage-costs\">the ongoing AI boom<\/a> and exacerbated by panic-fueled buying by end users and device manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>To illustrate just how high things have jumped in a short amount of time, let\u2019s compare some of the RAM and storage prices listed in <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/08\/ars-technica-system-guide-back-to-pc-building-for-back-to-school\/\">our system guide from three months ago<\/a> to the pricing for the exact same components today. Note that several of these are based on the last available price and are currently sold out; we also haven\u2019t looked into things <a href=\"http:\/\/these%20companies%20buy%20components%20in%20large%20quantities%20and%20they%20typically%20do%20so%20ahead%20of%20time,%20dulling%20the%20impact%20of%20the%20increases%20in%20the%20short-term.\/\">like microSD or microSD Express cards<\/a>, which could also be affected.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/11\/spiking-memory-prices-mean-that-it-is-once-again-a-horrible-time-to-build-a-pc\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/11\/spiking-memory-prices-mean-that-it-is-once-again-a-horrible-time-to-build-a-pc\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not a bad time to upgrade your gaming PC. Graphics card prices in the 2020s have undulated continuously as the industry has dealt with pandemic and AI-related shortages, but it\u2019s actually possible to get respectable mainstream- to high-end GPUs like AMD\u2019s Radeon RX 9060 XT and 9070 series or Nvidia\u2019s RTX 5060, 5070, and 5080 series for at or slightly under their suggested retail prices right now. 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