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A researcher says 'we just undid about 20 years of progress' when it comes to memory prices, so I broke out my calculator and compared actual RAM kits from 2007 to 2026
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Looking at forum posts discussing deals on RAM kits, we can see that good deals on 4 GB RAM kits cost about $100 at the time.
Well, whether we look to 32 GB or 16 GB kits, at the time of writing the price per GB for reasonably-specced DDR5 is about the same for both: $15–16 per GB.
A decent 32 GB (2x 16 GB) DDR5 kit, for instance, goes for about $500 right now.
These days, the equivalent would be 16 GB or 32 GB, with a weighting toward the latter.
Even if these numbers aren't completely accurate, they're so far from today's RAM prices that the gulf between the two certainly holds.