GPU advice on 5080
Hugging Face Forums [Unofficial]
April 13, 2026
IMO wait a few months for RAM and VRAM prices to go down. Prices went up because the news claimed there were contracts to buy 12 months worth of 90% of production of VRAM and SSDs from major manufacturers. Well, OpenAI did not have a contract, it had a letter of intent, which it has recently broken. In West Virginia monthly power bills are now more than peoples’ mortgages due to a local data center. Cities attract data centers to claim they created jobs but the regular people pay the bill.
I think we’ll see more resistance to data centers, letters of intent will not become contracts for a few companies, and VRAM and SSD prices will come down.
Here are some sites with price histories per unit of RAM/VRAM.
1. RAM Price History | Historical DRAM Prices 1957-Present
2. PC Part Picker. https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/
3. RAM Scout. https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/
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