DDR4 RAM Price Tracker

DDR4 still powers an enormous number of PCs. If you are running an AMD AM4 system (Ryzen 1000 through 5000) or an Intel build from roughly the 6th through 11th generation — plus many budget 12th and 13th-gen boards — DDR4 is what your motherboard takes, and it remains one of the most cost-effective ways to get the most out of an existing machine.

The catch is that DDR4 is now end-of-life at the major memory makers, who are winding down production to free up capacity for DDR5 and high-margin AI memory. Counter-intuitively, that has pushed prices of some DDR4 kits up rather than down: supply is shrinking while plenty of systems still need it. That makes timing — and shopping around — matter more than it used to.

This page tracks DDR4 pricing daily across Amazon, Newegg, eBay, Walmart, and Best Buy, normalizes duplicate listings by model number, and ranks kits by price per gigabyte. The chart shows how the average has moved over time, and the deals below surface the best current value so you can upgrade an existing build without overpaying.

DDR4 — Average Price per GB (new) lower is better

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Why is DDR4 RAM so expensive right now?

DDR4 has been hit especially hard by end-of-life: manufacturers are winding down older DDR4 production lines to free capacity for DDR5 and high-margin AI memory (HBM). A shrinking supply of a still widely-used standard has pushed many DDR4 kit prices up even faster than DDR5.

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