32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
32GB DDR5 内存现价 375 美元——人工智能热潮持续挤压 PC 组装市场
As the demands of AI continue to consume manufacturing capacity at every level of the PC hardware supply chain, 32GB of DDR5 RAM — broadly understood to be the sweet spot for gaming PCs and enthusiast builds — can no longer be found for less than $375. Well, $374.97 to be precise. 随着人工智能的需求持续消耗 PC 硬件供应链各个环节的制造产能，32GB DDR5 内存（被广泛认为是游戏 PC 和发烧友装机的黄金容量）的价格已无法低于 375 美元。准确地说，是 374.97 美元。
RAM price tracking through 2026 will show you that kits that routinely cost less than $100 just a year ago are now fetching upwards of $240 (16GB). As the AI frenzy has taken hold, retailers far and wide have been pumping up their RAM prices to exorbitant levels. However, there’s so much fluctuation and noise that average pricing is now something of a ludicrous fugazi. 回顾 2026 年的内存价格走势，你会发现一年前通常不到 100 美元的内存套装，如今（16GB 版本）售价已超过 240 美元。随着人工智能热潮的兴起，各地的零售商纷纷将内存价格推高至令人咋舌的水平。然而，由于市场波动和噪音太大，目前的平均价格已变得荒谬且虚高。
The going rate for 32GB of DDR5 RAM — the cheapest you can expect to pay — has hovered around $320 for some time, climbing past $350 in recent weeks. Price tracking courtesy of PCPartPicker now reveals the cheapest 32GB DDR5 RAM you can buy is $375. Specifically, four XPOWER kits from Silicon Power will set you back $374.97 thanks to a promo code. 32GB DDR5 内存的市场行情——即你能买到的最低价格——在一段时间内徘徊在 320 美元左右，近几周已攀升至 350 美元以上。根据 PCPartPicker 的价格追踪显示，目前能买到的最便宜的 32GB DDR5 内存为 375 美元。具体来说，得益于促销代码，Silicon Power 的四款 XPOWER 套装售价为 374.97 美元。
As you can imagine, this is enormous pricing pressure for enthusiasts trying to build gaming PCs or upgrade their rigs in 2026. A component that once cost less than $100 and was something of an afterthought now costs almost four times as much, and that’s before you’ve even fired a neuron in consideration of aesthetics, timings, or brand. More popular kits from the likes of Corsair and Crucial, or RGB offerings to match the rest of your build, will easily set you back more than $400. 可以想象，对于那些试图在 2026 年组装游戏 PC 或升级设备的发烧友来说，这带来了巨大的价格压力。一个曾经成本不到 100 美元、甚至被视为“次要配件”的组件，现在的价格几乎翻了四倍，这还没算上你对外观、时序或品牌的要求。来自海盗船（Corsair）和英睿达（Crucial）等品牌的更热门套装，或是为了搭配整机风格的 RGB 灯条，价格很容易就会超过 400 美元。
Of course, 32GB is really the minimum sweet spot you should be aiming for when building a PC in 2026. If you did want more capacity, 64GB will set you back an astonishing $679.99. 16GB of RAM as a compromise can be found for $200 at B&H Photo, but with SK hynix warning that manufacturing constraints will persist through 2030, there’s no sign of prices letting up so that you can upgrade capacity any time soon. 当然，32GB 确实是 2026 年组装 PC 时应考虑的最低黄金容量。如果你想要更大的容量，64GB 的价格将高达惊人的 679.99 美元。作为折中方案，在 B&H Photo 可以找到 200 美元的 16GB 内存，但随着 SK 海力士警告称制造限制将持续到 2030 年，短期内价格似乎没有回落的迹象，这意味着你无法在近期内轻松升级容量。
The humble RAM combo deals we’ve been highlighting in recent months are a small source of solace for builders, letting you score RAM for less than the $375 going rate if you pair it with a decent motherboard, a processor, or even an entire set of PC components. A theme of ongoing Computex 2026 announcements remains a lack of pricing clarity on lots of PC hardware, including Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops and PCs, as well as new-build systems and, of course, RAM components themselves. 我们近几个月重点介绍的内存组合优惠（Combo deals）为装机用户带来了一丝慰藉。如果你将内存与不错的显卡、处理器甚至整套 PC 组件搭配购买，价格可以低于 375 美元的市场价。2026 年台北电脑展（Computex 2026）发布会的一个主题依然是许多 PC 硬件缺乏明确的定价，包括英伟达的 RTX Spark 笔记本电脑和 PC、新组装系统，当然还有内存组件本身。
Vendors are likely wary of scaring off potential buyers with higher-than-expected prices ahead of release. Perhaps more likely, the prices haven’t been set because they’re still going up. Storage isn’t much better, with SSD price tracking revealing that drives which once cost as little as $38 are now fetching $200. 厂商可能担心在发布前公布高于预期的价格会吓跑潜在买家。更有可能的情况是，价格尚未确定，因为它们仍在上涨。存储设备的情况也不容乐观，SSD 价格追踪显示，曾经仅需 38 美元的硬盘现在售价已达 200 美元。
AMD is making a noticeable effort to keep PC gaming prices down, this week announcing the return of its Ryzen 7 5800X3D, and the advent of a new Ryzen 7 7700X3D. Intel, which warned this week that “something has to give” when it comes to memory prices, also teased dragging out some of its legacy products to give users more options on older memory technologies, namely Raptor Lake and DDR4. AMD 正在努力控制 PC 游戏成本，本周宣布其 Ryzen 7 5800X3D 回归，并推出了新款 Ryzen 7 7700X3D。英特尔本周警告称，内存价格问题“必须有所缓解”，并暗示将重新推出一些旧产品，为用户提供更多基于旧内存技术的选择，即 Raptor Lake 和 DDR4。