GPU ram prices up...again *FAKE News- press reporting it late**

[orbitalwalsh]

https://www.overclock3d.net/news/gp..._prices_have_reportedly_risen_30_this_month/1

sure 2 months ago new shipment cards went up £30 at all retailers due to ram prices

****title corrected, seems media were asleep when gibbo mentioned priced had gone up a while back due to memory pricing increasing on latest incoming stock *** late news

If a mod would be so kind to delete the thread please or lock it down

 

[Burr]

Seems to be no end in sight for Memory shortages ATM. Glad i upgraded my system last year now.

 

[Gibbo]

I think this is actually just what I mentioned two months ago, the press are generally either making stuff up or slow on the real facts.

I've seen no additional increases for VGA RAM since I made the initial warning on these forums over a month ago, so I'd not be worrying.

 

[azazl187]

On my 1080Ti this wouldnt have made much of a difference on the overall price.... lol

 

[DragonQ]

Seems to be no end in sight for Memory shortages ATM. Glad i upgraded my system last year now.

Yep it's pretty depressing and affects a lot of components. A budget 250GB SSD is now at least £70, whereas I bought one for £60 2 and a half years ago. I bought 16 GiB of 1866 MHz DDR3 for £57 a year and a half ago, the equivalent DDR4 RAM is more than double that now!

 

[Psycho Sonny]

why can't manufacturers just increase production or is it pretty much a monopoly/cartel situation?

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

why can't manufacturers just increase production or is it pretty much a monopoly/cartel situation?

Probably the latter as they have got fined in the past for fixing RAM prices. I mean isn't the reason diamonds cost so much due to supply being restricted??

 

[Broken Hope]

why can't manufacturers just increase production or is it pretty much a monopoly/cartel situation?

They can only produce so much without building new factories and most of them would rather make RAM for smart phones and the like as they sell a lot more than GPU's do.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

I think this is actually just what I mentioned two months ago, the press are generally either making stuff up or slow on the real facts.

I've seen no additional increases for VGA RAM since I made the initial warning on these forums over a month ago, so I'd not be worrying.

cheers amended the title so not to cause a stir

 

[ParticleSt0rm]

From what I hear Samsung have another factory opening in 2018 for memory, not sure if it HBM only or DDR also, so I guess it wont get much better until then.

 

[nashathedog]

Yep it's pretty depressing and affects a lot of components. A budget 250GB SSD is now at least £70, whereas I bought one for £60 2 and a half years ago. I bought 16 GiB of 1866 MHz DDR3 for £57 a year and a half ago, the equivalent DDR4 RAM is more than double that now!

I bought a 256gb Intel 600 M.2 drive about 6 months ago, That same drive now costs more than double what it did when I bought it.

 

[Freddie1980]

why can't manufacturers just increase production or is it pretty much a monopoly/cartel situation?

There are new fabs coming online which will increase supply and hopefully ease prices but it will take a year before see the fruits of that venture. I've not seen any suggest supply is being deliberately restricted, it just demand for memory on mobile devices keeps increasing year on year and there's a bigger demand in data centers and for HPC severs which is squeezing the middle and driving up prices.

 

[DragonQ]

I bought a 256gb Intel 600 M.2 drive about 6 months ago, That same drive now costs more than double what it did when I bought it.

Strangely it only seems to affect the typical consumer SSDs. Higher end SSDs like the Samsung 960 EVO is a bit cheaper now than it was when it came out (I think anyway).

 

[Burr]

Strangely it only seems to affect the typical consumer SSDs. Higher end SSDs like the Samsung 960 EVO is a bit cheaper now than it was when it came out (I think anyway).

Just checked the price of the Samsung 2TB 850 Pro the price is slightly higher than when i bought mine approx 15 months ago, though i dare say the value of the £ has played a factor in that.

 

[Rroff]

why can't manufacturers just increase production or is it pretty much a monopoly/cartel situation?

Fabs cost billions so unless there is guaranteed sustained demand it just isn't worth them building additional ones and due to the nature of the manufacturing you can't just simply expand your current production lines. A semiconductor wafer (for 14/16nm production) can take 45 to 90 days to cycle through the facility so you need a lot of physical space and can't easily change things around without quite a bit of time lag.

Samsung has been ramping up their production output recently on many fronts and Micron recovering from set backs last year/earlier this year so in that respect things should ease up a bit but I doubt prices will go down again :s

 

[Cooper]

PC gaming is currently eating itself into oblivion...glad I'm getting out of it TBH.