The cost of computer memory in Europe has risen sharply in recent months, with the steepest increases recorded in the DDR5 segment. According to analysts at 3DCenter, average retail prices for DDR5 modules in Germany have increased 4.4 times since July last year.<\/p>\n
Researchers estimate that from July to mid-January, average DDR5 prices in Germany rose by around 340%. A clear pattern has emerged: the cheaper a module was initially, the more sharply its price increased over time. December proved to be the most explosive month, with retail DDR5 prices jumping by 93% in that period alone. In November, prices rose more moderately\u2014by about 1.5 times\u2014while January, which has not yet ended, has already seen an additional increase of 27.6%.<\/p>\n
Older-generation DDR3 and DDR4 memory also became more expensive, though to a lesser extent. On average, prices for these modules in German retail increased by 219%. However, the pace of growth accelerated noticeably between October and January: in January alone, DDR3 and DDR4 prices rose by 46.3%. Analysts do not rule out that these memory types could eventually \u201ccatch up\u201d with DDR5 in terms of the scale of price increases.<\/p>\n
A similar trend is observed in laptop SODIMM modules. While DDR3 memory for mobile systems rose by 75% to 134%, DDR5 in this segment posted price increases ranging from 216% to 344%, depending on capacity. Overall, all types of mobile memory in Germany became roughly three times more expensive on average between July and January.<\/p>\n
Other components have not been immune either. Internal solid-state drives increased in price by an average of 79% over six months, with M.2 SSDs rising faster than SATA models. Traditional 3.5-inch hard drives gained about 53% in price, while external storage devices (HDDs and SSDs) rose by only 11%.<\/p>\n
Against this backdrop, gaming graphics cards from AMD and Nvidia appear relatively stable, with average prices increasing by around 14%. However, some models became significantly more expensive\u2014by up to 21% and even 33%\u2014primarily higher-end Nvidia solutions that are often used for compute-intensive tasks as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":151010,"menu_order":0,"template":"","newscat":[9],"newstag":[],"issues":[],"class_list":["post-151009","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","newscat-novosti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/151009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"newscat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newscat?post=151009"},{"taxonomy":"newstag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newstag?post=151009"},{"taxonomy":"issues","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issues?post=151009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}