We all know the cost of RAM is ridiculously high these days thanks to the global memory shortage. But it can be useful (and depressing) to put these prices into context historically.
To that end, scientist, developer, and software performance expert Daniel Lemire commented on X that "On a historical basis, computer memory has been falling at an exponential rate for decades. But we just undid about 20 years of progress. RAM on a per unit basis is about as expensive as it was in 2007."
They show a couple of charts that track the historical $/GB metric for RAM. However, these are a little hard to parse because of the scale and duration of the changes, so I thought I'd check with some specific prices, comparing RAM kits from 2007 to today. In other words, comparing the prices for memory that you and I, as gamers, would have actually used.
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