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pastage 81 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Historical memory prices 1960-2026

So total system cost per unit of memory is going up.. 2GB costs in 1985 was $2 million (from the graph), a cray-2 was $16 million (from wikipedia). A GPU server with 8xB200 today can be had for ~$500k (estimate), 1.5TB memory is $25k (from the graph).

sehansen 80 days ago [–]

Hmm, so memory is actually still cheap compared to historical highs. At least cheap relative to other computer components.

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