The 12-month increase for RAM prices has ballooned to levels that have made some kits unattainable for certain consumers, specifically those who can’t spend thousands of dollars to build a gaming PC. The RAM shortage, or the memory crisis as it’s sometimes referred to, has hit a large portion of the consumer electronics industry particularly hard. While consumers are paying more for RAM kits to put inside their PCs, manufacturers like HP, Dell, Google, and more are having to pay more for memory chips to put into their products.
These companies are then passing that price onto the consumer in the form of increased prices for laptops, phones, and more. Samsung raised prices on the Galaxy Z8 series that it announced back in July. Meanwhile, Google raised prices on the recently announced Pixel 11 series. This trend continues with consoles, and can all be be traced back to the higher prices on RAM.
The 12-month price increase on RAM kits has shot up to nearly 500%
If you’re looking at RAM prices today, you’re looking at vastly higher prices than you would have been over a year ago. According to a report from Tom’s Hardware, that’s exactly what consumers are going to be seen. After tracking prices from the current month and comparing them to exactly one year ago, the price increase has hit nearly 500%.
For example, a 96GB capacity RAM kit with DDR5-6000 RAM was $189 at its lowest US price. That same capacity RAM kit is now $1,799. A 128GB DDR5-6400 kit is now $3,399, when it was $329 at its absolute lowest in the US last year. One component now costs more than an entire beefy gaming PC did in 2025. The prices were tracked using the newest average price data from PCPartPicker.
Tom’s Hardware also notes that prices are rising drastically for other regional markets. Adding further evidence that this is most certainly a global trend.
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