According to monitoring data from the well-known German price comparison platform Geizhals, the DDR5 memory price index surged from 445% in July to 486% in August, with the average price reaching nearly five times the baseline level of July 2025, indicating a severe imbalance between supply and demand.
Specifically, large-capacity DDR5 kits of 32GB, 48GB, and 64GB were hit hardest by price increases, with month-on-month gains generally reaching double digits.
The 64GB (2×32GB) dual-channel kit saw the most significant price increase,The flagship 2×32GB DDR5 6400 CL32 kit rose from 181 euros in July 2025 to 1,093 euros in August 2026, a cumulative annual increase of 504%, with a sharp month-on-month rise of 28% from July to August.
Other 64GB kits also saw fierce price hikes; the 2×32GB DDR5/6400 rose by 31% month-on-month, while only the 2×32GB DDR5/6000 CL28 remained stable over the past month.
Among the 48GB (2×24GB) memory kits, the 2×24GB DDR5/6000 kit increased from 128 euros to 630 euros, a cumulative rise of 392%, with a month-on-month increase of 26% from July to August.
The current price of the 2×24GB DDR5/6400 is 630 euros, up 12% month-on-month, while the 2×24GB DDR5/7200 is currently 764 euros, up 5% over the same period.
Among the 32GB (2×16GB) memory kits, the 2×16GB DDR5/7200 rose from 110 euros to 520 euros, a cumulative increase of 373%, rising 16% month-on-month from July to August, while mainstream 2×16GB DDR5/6400 and 2×16GB DDR5/6000 kits remained flat over the past month.
In the domestic market, the price of the 2×32GB DDR5 6400 CL32 kit has exceeded 10,000 yuan, the 2×24GB DDR5/6000 kit is around 4,500 yuan, and the 2×16GB DDR5/7200 kit also exceeds 5,000 yuan.
For DIY PC builders, building a high-performance PC host could cost several thousand yuan just for memory, which was unimaginable in the past.
More importantly, the rise in memory costs is not an isolated incident; it is affecting all related devices, including graphics cards, laptops, mini PCs, and smartphones.
Moreover, graphics cards, with their own large VRAM, are second only to memory sticks in terms of impact, further exacerbating the already expensive GPU market.