TrendForce: DDR5 memory price drops up to 5 percent in third quarter

Analyst firm TrendForce does not expect the DDR5 memory price to fall sharply in the third quarter of this year. It would be a decrease of 0 to 5 percent. In the second quarter it was still 3 to 8 percent.

According to TrendForce, manufacturers currently have large memory inventories as demand is lower than expected due to the war in Ukraine and high inflation. The analyst firm estimates As a result, DDR5 memory prices were 3 to 8 percent lower in the second quarter than in the previous quarter. According to TrendForce, that decline will not or hardly continue in the next quarter.

Currently, DDR5 memory is only needed for some systems based on Intel Alder Lake processors. However, those CPUs can also be combined with DDR4. AMD will release its Ryzen 7000 processors and the accompanying AM5 platform ‘in the fall’. That only works with DDR5 memory. So, according to TrendForce, it doesn’t look like DDR5 prices will drop sharply before that.

Intel is expected to release its thirteenth generation of Core processors this fall, codenamed Raptor Lake. Like the Alder Lake models, these work on the LGA1700 socket and will also support DDR4 memory. The price of DDR4 will fall further in the third quarter, according to TrendForce, roughly by 3 to 8 percent.

DDR5 memory has been available since late last year. Prices have fallen sharply since then. The cheapest 32GB DDR5-4800 set was in the Pricewatch at the end of 2021 for 242 euros. Currently that is 172 euros. The price of the cheapest set of 16GB DDR5-4800 fell from about 145 euros in March to 85 euros now.

The most viewed DDR5 memory set in the Pricewatch is a 32GB DDR5-5600 kit from Corsair. At the introduction in November 2021, this cost at least 569 euros. At the moment that is about 274 euros. The most popular DDR4-3600 sets of 16GB and 32GB currently cost about 66 and 130 euros.

Price trend of the most popular DDR5 memory set in the Pricewatch (32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5-5600).