Black Friday is Friday 27 November 2026, two weeks away. Graphics cards and processors have already had their own price check. Memory is the line on a parts list that still looks least like a seasonal sale, and the trackers make that plain.
Forge PC has not negotiated any of these prices, and we have not tested the kits named below. The figures come from ramprices.uk's price index and SpecPrice's Black Friday tracker, both checked on 13 November 2026.
ramprices.uk tracks the median New price per gigabyte on Amazon.co.uk, updated on 13 November 2026 from 4,313 kits (3,139 with a full year of history). It uses medians rather than averages, so a few absurd listings cannot move the index.
On that date the DDR5 median was £18.47 per GB, up 20 per cent on 90 days earlier (£15.44) and up 195 per cent on a year ago (£6.27). DDR4 was £8.22 per GB, up 14 per cent in 90 days and 87 per cent in a year. DDR3 was unchanged at £5.84.
A typical 32GB DDR5 kit at the median would therefore cost around £592. That is only a rule of thumb: ramprices.uk itself says the cheapest kits sit well below the median, which is why its ranked lists matter more than multiplying the headline figure.
By kit size, the 13 November medians were:
Kit | Median £/GB | A year ago | 12-month change |
|---|
DDR5 8GB | £20.90 | £5.90 | +254% |
DDR5 16GB | £17.33 | £5.61 | +209% |
DDR5 32GB | £18.51 | £6.75 | +174% |
DDR5 64GB | £17.67 | £5.94 | +197% |
DDR5 128GB | £27.92 | £3.83 | +629% |
The 128GB row is based on only eight tracked kits, so treat it as a thin sample. The important point for most builders is the middle of the table: a 32GB DDR5 kit is still close to three times last year's cost per gigabyte.
For the supply story behind those numbers, see our earlier explainer on why RAM and graphics cards are expensive in 2026. This page is about what the trackers show right now, not a repeat of that background.
SpecPrice's "real deals" are relative, not cheap
SpecPrice's Black Friday tracker, built at 10:59 UK time on 13 November 2026, had been recording prices since 16 October 2026. A product only gets a verdict once it has seven days of its own history. On that snapshot it was tracking 422 RAM kits: 9 real deals, 31 that had gone up before the sale, 208 at the usual price and 174 still too early to tell.
"Real deal" here means today's price is at least 5 per cent below that listing's usual price, which SpecPrice defines as the time-weighted 30-day median, or a lower typical price at other UK shops it tracks. It does not use a shop's "was" figure or an RRP, and it is not a comparison with last year's market.
One of the named stock-checked deals on that page was a 32GB (2x16GB) Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6400 CL32 kit at £479.99, against a 30-day median of £584.48, an 18 per cent saving. That is a genuine discount against the kit's recent UK history. It is not cheap in any longer sense: at about £15 per GB it is still far above the £6.75 per GB median that 32GB DDR5 kits sat at a year ago, per ramprices.uk.
If you are comparing a banner price this month, use a tracker low or a 30-day median, not the shop's own "was" number. Our GPU and CPU price watch and Black Friday parts guide use the same method for other components.
What this means if you need memory
If you can wait, there is no strong signal yet that the last two weeks of November will reset DDR5 to last year's levels. The index is still rising over 90 days, and most of the kits SpecPrice tracks are at their usual price or have gone up.
If you cannot wait, because a new PC will not post without memory or you are upgrading from 16GB, buy the capacity you need as a matched two-module kit and judge the price against the trackers rather than against a hopeful "Black Friday" label. Our how much RAM do you need guide still treats 32GB as the sensible default for a gaming PC; the expensive market does not change that advice, it only makes the bill larger.
Set a price alert, check the kit's recent history, and only treat a cut as a deal if it beats the usual price by a clear margin. All prices here are approximate and were checked on 13 November 2026.
Our verdict
Two weeks before Black Friday, UK DDR5 is still a historically expensive buy. ramprices.uk's median of £18.47 per GB on 13 November 2026 is about three times the figure from a year earlier, and SpecPrice's handful of "real deals" are discounts against the last 30 days, not a return to normal. If you must buy, use those trackers to avoid a fake sale. If you can wait, there is little in the current data to suggest the last fortnight of November will undo a 195 per cent yearly rise. We have not tested these kits; the figures come from ramprices.uk and SpecPrice.
