Price trends for gaming PC hardware – a look back at 2025

Inflation has become noticeable in many areas of life in recent years. Gaming PC components are no exception here. Prices are rising due to high demand in the AI industry, as well as increasingly complex supply chains or general macroeconomic price drivers (e.g. transportation costs, labor costs, etc.).

This article shows you the price changes in 2025 for the most important components in a typical computer. This way you can see the price developments of the past year at a glance and perhaps use them for your future purchasing decisions. This report is based on various sources (including pcpartpicker.com, pangoly.com and several others).

Price developments for CPUs in 2025

In the processor sector, we looked at the 13th generation – codename Raptor Lake – and the new Intel Core Ultra processors – Arrow Lake. For AMD products, we focused on the Ryzen 9000 series.

The stated prices are average prices across all models of the respective series. In the Raptor Lake range, for example, there are i3 to i9 models, with prices doubling between these two versions. With AMD there are Ryzen 5, 7 and 9 models in each series. Here we calculated with average prices of the entire series.

The prices apply to Austria, as this is where our production takes place.

We have only shown a selection of three popular processor series here, but the resulting impression is consistent with the other CPUs on the market. There was no inflation or price increase for processors in 2025.

Price changes for graphics cards in 2025

In this category we tracked the price development of three popular Nvidia GeForce and two Radeon cards. These are again average prices, as prices can vary between different retailers and due to discount promotions and similar price fluctuations. The price comparison here is between April 1, 2025 and December 31, 2025, as the Nvidia 5000 series only came to market in February and was initially heavily sold out.

The prices apply to Austria, as this is where our production takes place.

The GPUs show a similar picture to the CPUs. Prices in 2025 did not rise, but rather fell. It should of course not go unmentioned that an entirely new product family became available with the 5000 series and is generally priced higher. The following principle therefore applies: Although prices for individual models have fallen, it should not be overlooked that significantly more budget has generally been spent on graphics cards. If you have any further questions, our support team will be happy to assist you:

The hyperinflation of RAM in 2025

Especially in the last months of 2025, there were very strong price jumps for this component type. In the table we are not focusing on individual RAM brand manufacturers, but on a certain number of gigabytes of a specific type (DDR4, DDR5).

The prices apply to Austria, as this is where our production takes place.

Since October 2025, price increases of over 300% have occurred for this type of component. The site pcpartpicker even lists even higher prices and thus an even higher inflation rate than we were able to calculate in the table. In the past, RAM was considered one of the cheapest components in a gaming PC. Due to the recent inflation, RAM now plays in the same league as CPUs and represents a significant cost factor when purchasing a computer. In many circles, the enormous high demand from the AI industry is given as the reason.

Unfortunately, a recovery in prices at the beginning of 2026 is not yet in sight. However, we are trying to pass on the price reductions of other components to our customers and thus keep the price increases for complete PCs in our shop as low as possible.

If a drop in RAM prices becomes foreseeable for us, we will of course be happy to inform you about it here.

The price development of motherboards in 2025

The stated prices for AM4, AM5 and LGA1700 mainboards represent average values of the respective chipset groups considered. Within a chipset, however, there are still clear price differences, as the models vary in terms of features, power supply, PCIe configuration and additional functions. In addition, the platforms differ technically: AM4 and part of the LGA1700 mainboards support DDR4, while AM5 works exclusively with DDR5. In terms of PCIe support, the range goes from PCIe 3.0/4.0 on AM4 to PCIe 4.0/5.0 on LGA1700 to standardized PCIe 5.0 on AM5. The price information used here is therefore based on averaged values within the respective chipset category.

The prices apply to Austria, as this is where our production takes place.

Motherboards show a similar picture to other PC components: Prices in 2025 have generally fallen, albeit to very different degrees – depending on the platform. The decline is particularly noticeable on current platforms. AM5 mainboards with B650E chipset have become 24% cheaper, while Z790 boards for Intel's LGA1700 socket have even seen a price drop of 27.5%. This development shows that even modern high-end platforms have become noticeably more affordable.

The decline was somewhat more moderate on older platforms. AM4 mainboards with X570 chipset became 11% cheaper in year-on-year comparison – a sign that older ecosystems remain well available and competitive. The price development of Z690 boards, on the other hand, remained almost unchanged, falling only by 1% and thus stagnating in price.

Despite the significant price drops, it should not be overlooked that switching to modern platforms is still associated with higher entry costs. Nevertheless, the development clearly shows that 2025 was a year in which mainboards became more widely available and prices moved significantly in favor of buyers.

Price increases for SSDs in 2025

In general, technologies also vary with SSDs. SATA SSDs are limited by the SATA-6-Gb/s protocol, while PCIe Gen3 models already achieve significantly higher transfer rates via NVMe. PCIe Gen4 SSDs doubled this bandwidth again and formed the common standard in 2025, while PCIe Gen5 SSDs represent the current highest performance class and have a correspondingly higher price structure. The price information used here is therefore based on averaged values within the respective capacity and interface category.

In the annual comparison, SSDs show a particularly differentiated price picture that depends heavily on the respective technology. While individual high-end models became moderately more expensive, other segments recorded significant price jumps. Particularly striking is the increase in 1 TB PCIe Gen4 SSDs, whose average price rose by 74%. This strong increase reflects the ongoing high demand for Gen-4 drives, which in 2025 are considered the price/performance sweet spot for many gaming and workstation systems. Even classic 1 TB SATA SSDs experienced a significant price increase of 56% – an indication that production of these older models is continuing to decline and lower unit volumes are leading to higher market prices.

In contrast, the high-end segment appears much more stable: 1 TB PCIe Gen5 SSDs only increased by 3%, which can be attributed to a combination of market establishment and increasing availability. This trend becomes even clearer with the 2 TB PCIe Gen5 models, which even recorded a price drop of 6%. Here, the scaling of the new Gen-5 controllers plays a decisive role, as higher capacities in the premium segment are becoming increasingly competitive.

Conclusion on gaming PC inflation in 2025

The recent and sometimes extreme price increases for RAM and hard drives in particular give the impression of high computer inflation. This picture is reinforced by new products on the market, such as Nvidia's Blackwell graphics cards. However, a more detailed analysis also shows price reductions in various component categories over the course of 2025.

Of course, it is difficult to do without the most sought-after products, but through clever configurations it is quite possible to avoid some of the inflation in the gaming PC sector – and of course we try to do this with special models in our range.

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