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Flat illustration of two friends building a PC at a workbench, with a balance scale weighing two memory sticks

DDR4 vs DDR5 for a budget build in 2026: the real maths

I priced an AM4 + DDR4 and an AM5 + DDR5 build part by part on the same day. The gap is about $300, $240 of it is RAM, and the "56% cheaper" DDR4 claim checks out as roughly half price.

Nadia Rahman · 1d ago · 7 min