DRAM Prices Surge 172% YoY with No Signs of Slowing Down
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This could be a bad thing, or it could in the long run be a very good thing.
It's worth remembering that when Wolfenstein 3D was released in 1992 it drew ire from some gamers at the time because while it was an amazing game it required a i286 CPU as a minimum and the developer recommended a i386 CPU for best performance, and these processors had "only" been on the market for 10 years and 7 years respectively so not all could afford them (many manufacturers still had turbo 8086 CPUs in their entry/budget machines).
My point being that while the end of affordable high end computing (at least for the time being) looks bleak lets not forget that it's affordable high end computing that has resulted in mainstream games having such awful performance/optimisation in the first place. If the "average" PC spec fails to keep pace because of this then developers are going to have to up their game to compensate for that.
I think its more than that, in some instances is closing in 300% and probably will keep going higher next year.
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Yup around 300% now
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Just think, at the rate it's going, this time next year, 64GB will probably cost 5090 money
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It was a looong time ago, but I recall spending $200 (which I'd saved all year) for another 2mb stick of RAM for my parent's 386 DX so I could play Ultima VII. Then I figured out it already had enough memory, but I'd somehow misallocated 2mb when I was messing around with memsys. D'oh.
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that must have sucked. the joys of QEMM memory manager.
Yes, it should just be DRAM Prices Surge
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Adjusted for inflation, 32GB of official N64 DRAM would be about £380,027. Third-party would be quite a bit cheaper at £269,189...
Looking into the crystal ball of ridiculousness, how much do we see other components prices jumping e.g. CPU, SSDs, Mobos?
I'm pretty much set with everything (9800x3d, nice b650, 32GB, 4TB, 2x 2TB Nvme SSDs, 5090), but wondering if I should jump on anything else (I've been toying moving to a x670 or x870...)
Edit: I'm more involved in AI/ML dev side, but from my own view, anything with solid state is going to jump 2-3x in cost for those components. So, this includes acutely DDR5-7, then TLC and QLC NAND used in SSDs and components in mobos, and SRAM. Basically, anything that is used for ROM, RAM, or vCache purposes is going to go up by varying levels.
I'm pretty much set with everything (9800x3d, nice b650, 32GB, 4TB, 2x 2TB Nvme SSDs, 5090), but wondering if I should jump on anything else (I've been toying moving to a x670 or x870...)
Edit: I'm more involved in AI/ML dev side, but from my own view, anything with solid state is going to jump 2-3x in cost for those components. So, this includes acutely DDR5-7, then TLC and QLC NAND used in SSDs and components in mobos, and SRAM. Basically, anything that is used for ROM, RAM, or vCache purposes is going to go up by varying levels.
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NAND is going up as well - not as fast
But outside of memory and storage - you are not going to be seeing huge price spikes - you may see some drops.
But I would get your memory and storage "sorted" sooner rather than later - then take your time on the rest
The memory element of a 5090 is a relatively small part of the overall BoM.
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Sadly - you will find - it is - do you have any idea how long it takes / how much it costs to build a factory to build memory and NAND? These things cost an absolute fortune - yes at the moment wafer prices mean their input expense vs output revenue creates a huge "profit" for them - but the sunk costs on a high tech manufacturing facility to be able to then generate these returns are huge.
A semi conductor factory (new) costs between 10 and 20 BILLION DOLLARS.
So consider that when you look at the price of a stick of memory.
SSD prices have already started spiking.
I would say yes.
I bought a few weeks back when the ram was £180. Shot in to £380 so £200 difference.
Gpu price is around £50 difference.
Yes it would be £250 more however would I still buy…yes. Might not mean I get the spec I was able to so might have to spec down. But for me what is £250 extra over say 3-5 years that I may look to upgrade again?
Not me. Waiting for DDR6 and AM6 platform. What I have runs everything I want and tbh until we get games like GTA6 and PS6 games coming out, what I have will be perfectly fine for me.
At least when I upgrade it will be a decent jump up in performance
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Probably what i will end up doing, i could add in an up to date GPU now to my 3700x cpu and 1660GTX but i think ill just wait.Not me. Waiting for DDR6 and AM6 platform. What I have runs everything I want and tbh until we get games like GTA6 and PS6 games coming out, what have will be perfectly fine for me.
At least when I upgrade it will be a decent jump up in performance
Open AI is buying at these pricesn
So, given I have got 32GB of DDR5 6400MHz I got from B grade before prices went doolally, are we thinking that motherboard and CPU prices may actually ease as demand drops? Surely no one, or very few will be buying, purely due to DDR prices? If demand drops, will prices drop too?