As of September 30th 2024 GDDR6 8Gb spot pricing have cratered to just ~$2.3 on average or $18 for 8GB. This is 33% lower than the widely reported spot price of $27 in June 2023.
This spot pricing comes from DRAMeXchange.com, a website tracking prices on various memory and storage products.
This extends the drop in spot pricing from $13/GB in February 2022 to $3.36/GB in June 2023, which was a result of the end of the mining induced late 2020-2022 GPU drought and a transition to the subsequent late 2022-2023 postmining GPU glut.
These very low GDDR6 spot prices are consistent with overall trends in storage and RAM prices that have cratered post 2020.
Fingers crossed this downward trend continues with GDDR7 even if it's much more expensive initially like GDDR6 and DDR5 which at launch were priced up to 70% > GDDR5 and ~2x DDR4 respectively.
And let's all hope that VRAM pricing stays low and keeps going down over time resulting in:
- More VRAM for Nextgen GDDR7 and GDDR6 GPUs
- Last gen GPUs at aggressive prices
Let's all use this info to force Nvidia to not skimp on VRAM anymore as they've been doing since 2018 with RTX 2000 series (Turing), RTX 3000 series (Ampere) and RTX 4000 series (Ada Lovelace).
(Disclaimer): I'm not affiliated with any of the companies I link or mention, just added the links and info to provide additional insight and support my claims.
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>Let’s all use this info to force Nvidia to not skimp on VRAM anymore
I don’t think most PC gamers care about VRAM pricing, nor do they even know it. Plus, I’m not sure Nvidia really cares since these GPUs still sell a boatload no matter how much VRAM is there.