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Comment by iknownothow | Hacker News Reader

I checked the prices for 64GB DDR5. There's some variance based on brand/model but the average and trend seems more or less right. Did you happen to notice that it is about prices in the EU?

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This fails a basic smell test: For DDR5, there is only a ~6% price difference between 16 and 32GB. Reality is that 2x16GB goes for about 400 (so that checks out), but 16GB of DDR5 can be had for a bit more than half that (250ish)-- obviously, otherwise people would just buy a 32GB dual channel kit and sell both 16GB sticks at a huge markup.

I just checked again. 16GB DDR5 (291 Euro) to 32GB (519 Euro). Seems right to me and does not match what you reported. Maybe they updated the website by the time I checked.

For the record: When I posted the previous comment, prices at ramtracker were 410ish for 32GB DDR5 (which is realistic) and 380ish for 16GB DDR5 (which is not).

Their price history does not reflect this at all, so I'm not trusting their values one bit.

At best, they changed their complete history to reflect a different product (or basket of products), and while the 16GB-DDR5 category is closer to accurate now, the 32GB is now too high: 32GB of DDR5-6000 can be had for 400ish in the Netherlands (or elsewhere in Europe).

While the .eu should make that more obvious, the text is pretty small/low contrast. Also specifically indicates it's the Dutch market.

https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/ may be more interesting to US users.

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