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by moondev 1482 days ago
* 64GB of 2666MHz DDR4 in 2019: $280

* 64GB of 3200Mhz DDR4 in 2022: $240

memory has been getting faster and cheaper, and it really wasn't that expensive to begin with.

2 comments

I said cost not price.

You manage to pick the highest margin product with the biggest variation of pricing inside a commodity market to compare using two data point within a short period.

https://thememoryguy.com/dram-prices-hit-historic-low/

Compare this with CPU operations per second per dollar and it paints a totally different story