RAM prices are falling at UK retailers, with the cost of some DDR5 kits dropping by 25% compared to December 2025. The resulting prices are still considerably higher than those from this time last year, but it looks as though there’s an upper limit to what consumers are prepared to pay for a pair of memory sticks, and retailers need to shift their pricey stock.
Overclockers UK has slashed prices on 58 DDR5 RAM kits, bringing down the price of entry to £179.99 for a 16GB set of two 8GB Corsair Vengeance 5,200MT/s CL40 EXPO DIMMs. That’s a reduction of 17.8% compared to its previous price of £218.99. Meanwhile, a 6,000MT/s 16GB dual-channel Patriot kit will now cost you £209.99, down from £239.99.
You see even bigger cuts when you move to 32GB capacities. A 32GB (2x16GB) 7,200MT/s G.Skill TridentZ RGB set, for example, which peaked at £499.99 in December 2025 (up from £139.99 this time last year), now costs £379.99 – a drop of 24%. I bought one of these kits myself for just £116.66 in January 2025, and I’ve been keeping an eye on its price out of interest. I definitely wouldn’t have paid £499.99 for it, or £379.99 for that matter, but that’s a substantial drop.
It’s not just OCUK, though. You’ll see similar falls at CCL. A 32GB (2x16GB) Kingston Fury Beast RGB 6,000MT/s CL36 kit, complete with fancy lighting, now costs £299.99 at CCL, for example – a fall of 21% from its previous price of £379.99. Choose the non-RGB version, and you can get it for £279.99 – a 25% drop from £374.99.
Is nature healing? It’s far too soon to say. These prices are still much higher than they were just a few months ago, even if they’ve had a good drop. High RAM prices at other retailers, including Amazon, are also holding firm. Indications from the rest of the industry also suggest that the AI boom is still in full force, and that there continues to be a serious shortage of DRAM chips for the consumer market as a result.
However, it does look as though PC DDR5 RAM prices might have peaked in the UK, and that you basically can’t sell a 32GB RAM kit for £500. It’s a very different situation from the GPU shortage fuelled by cryptocurrency mining a few years ago. At that time, it was practically impossible to find GPUs on sale anywhere, and gamers were clearly willing to pay inflated prices for an upgrade. With memory, there’s still clearly a fair bit of stock, and it looks as though most people just aren’t prepared to pay the prices we’ve seen recently.
Whatever the reason, falling memory prices are very welcome after this period of outlandish inflation. A 32GB 6,000MT/s memory kit might be expensive at £279.99, but we now know the situation could be much, much worse. Let’s hope we can put the days of paying £500 for a 32GB memory kit behind us.
