The week’s biggest DDR4 and DDR5 price drops, ranked by percentage off prior price. Each kit is matched against its lowest tracked price so you can tell whether the drop is meaningful.
4 kits dropped at least 5% during this week.
The Week in Numbers
Of the 458 priced kits RamRadar monitored during the week of May 18 – May 24, 2026, 4 dropped at least 5% from their prior price. The biggest mover was the Crucial 128GB Kit (2x64GB) DDR5 RAM 5600MHz (or 5200MHz or 4800MHz) Desktop Memory Kit, UDIMM 288-Pin, Compatible with Latest Intel Core and AMD Ryzen 8000 & Above – CT2K64G56C46U5, which fell from $1,795.00 to $538.10, a 70.0% drop. At its week low, that 128GB DDR5 kit worked out to $4.20/GB. The runner-up was the G.SKILL RipjawsV Series DDR4 RAM (XMP) 16GB (2x8GB) 3600MT/s CL16-19-19-39 1.35V Intel AMD Desktop Computer Memory U-DIMM - Black (F4-3600C16D-16GVKC), down 30.0% to $119.01.
The drops split 2 DDR5 kits to 2 DDR4. Taken together, the 4 kits shed a combined $1,426.49 from their prior prices, with a median cut of 23.6%. Week-low prices among them ranged from $119.01 to $538.10.
Zooming out: DDR5 desktop kits averaged $14.19/GB across the wider catalog we price, down 1.3% from $14.38/GB the week before. DDR4 desktop kits averaged $8.43/GB, down 2.5% from $8.65/GB the week before. Every figure in this recap is computed from the price history RamRadar records across retailers, the same data behind the deal cards below.
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The commentary records this week's price drops. The product cards show current offers, which may have changed since the recap.