TrendForce: price of DDR5 memory drops by a maximum of 5 percent in the third quarter

By admin On Jun 20, 2022

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Analyst firm TrendForce expects the DDR5 memory price to stop falling 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 that DDR5 memory prices are therefore 3 to 8 percent lower in the second quarter than in the previous quarter. According to TrendForce, this decline will hardly continue in the next quarter, if at all.

Currently, DDR5 memory is only required 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 much before that happens.

Intel is expected to present its thirteenth generation of Core processors this fall, codenamed Raptor Lake. These will work on the LGA1700 socket just like the Alder Lake models 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 dropped significantly since then. The cheapest 32GB DDR5-4800 set was in the Pricewatch at the end of 2021 for 242 euros. Currently it is 172 euros. The price of the cheapest set of 16GB DDR5-4800 dropped from about 145 euros in March to 85 euros now.

The most viewed DDR5 memory kit in the Pricewatch is a 32GB DDR5-5600 kit from Corsair. That cost at least 569 euros when it was introduced in November 2021. Currently that is about 274 euros. The most popular DDR4-3600 sets of 16GB and 32GB currently cost about 66 and 130 euros.

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