Amazon Prime Day’s best SSD, RAM and GPU deals are more sad than exciting – the prices compared to last year show how bad things have been – but there’s some GPU goodness here.
Amazon Prime Day is in full swing, and while there are plenty of tempting deals on all kinds of tech in general, the computer components side of the big sale is a depressingly barren place.
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When it comes to the main PC components that have been most affected by the memory crisis (RAM, SSD and GPU), the deals offered by Amazon may seem like considerable discounts at first glance, but they are not when you consider the prices at which these products were available last year.
An example: The Samsung 9100 PRO 2TB SSD is currently half price at $335 (down from $680) on Amazon US, but a year ago, it was $165 in the Prime Day sale. So, in fact, you will pay twice as much this year as in 2025, which doesn’t feel very good.
That said, in the big picture of SSDs, this is now a decent price, which shows just how bad the RAM crisis has made everything worse.
Of course, the price of the RAM itself is particularly painful. For example, there’s a 64GB RAM kit (2 x 32GB modules) from Crucial on sale for 7% off on Amazon UK, but it costs £690 after that discount. A year ago, that same kit cost £170. Oh.
A more common 32GB kit (2 x 16GB) from Crucial is now offered on Amazon UK with a 22% discount, bringing it down to £400, down from £108 a year ago.
Let’s let this sink in for a moment: it’s an effective quadrupling of prices on both RAM examples.
As for GPUs, the Asus Prime RX 9070 XT Gaming graphics card is 23% off on Amazon US, bringing it down to $829. However, in the Prime Day sale a year ago, it was $690 (and it actually dropped to $649 for the holiday season on Amazon, so it’s now about 30% more expensive than when it’s on sale).
What a difference a year makes, and sadly a very negative difference, but while it’s undeniably bleak, luckily there are some deals worth considering for Prime Day components in the US and UK.
I’ll list them below and they include what could be the best deals you’ll get on a mid-range and high-end GPU for possibly quite a while (depending on how the RAM crisis continues to impact video memory, and the latest suggestions aren’t good).
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