DDR5 memory has been on the market for some time, but so far its presence is still a minority. And it is understandable, because until recently its price was very, very high, to which we must add that the compatible motherboards were practically all high-end, which increased even more the final cost of assembling a PC with the memory fastest on the market. Be careful, this is not a criticism, it is common that the newest technologies are expensive at first, but later become popular.
In the case of DDR5 RAM, we also have an imminent shock, and that is that next generation processors will go for DDR5 to the detriment of DDR4. In the case of AMD, we have already been able to confirm that the Ryzen 7000 will only be compatible with this type of memory, which added to the socket change will force those who wish to upgrade their PC to this new generation to change the CPU, RAM and motherboard. .
About Intel, before the launch of Alder Lake, there was already speculation about the possibility that it would bet exclusively on DDR5. However, at that time the offer was still very scarce and expensive, so with quite good sense, he decided that the twelfth generation would also support DDR4. Now the big question is whether Raptor Lake will maintain that compatibilityeven if Intel pushes in the direction of DDR5, or if it will finally be as exhaustive as AMD, betting only on the new generation of memory.
Be that as it may in the case of Intel, what is clear is that DDR5 is a future that is becoming present by the minute, and the main indicator of this is found in its prices. Prices that have been falling for some time now and that, according to Computerbase, have seen the rate of decline increase, with a drop of up to 20% in just one month. On average, they say, the price of a gigabyte of DDR5 memory has dropped from 15 euros at the end of 2021 to about five euros at the beginning of June
In other words, equipping our PC with DDR5 memory right now can cost as little as a third of what it would have cost just six months ago, a decline so pronounced that, without a doubt, it already places us at a time when the DDR5 option is already beginning to approach all pockets. And in case you’re wondering, the price of DDR4 RAM would also be falling, but in a much less pronounced way.
We will still have to wait a few months until the arrival of the Ryzen 7000 and Raptor Lake, a time in which the average price of DDR5 memory may drop even more (although it seems difficult to maintain the pace seen during May), leading to this so that the jump to this new generation of memory, hand in hand with the new generation of processors, is massive. And if we add to this the arrival of PCIe 5 to AMD and the new generation of NVIDIA and AMD graphics, we can prepare for a good performance jump.
