Which Corsair line should you look at?
This page is the Corsair slice of our US RAM prices: every desktop and laptop kit from the brand, cheapest first. In the titles you will mostly see Vengeance, often as Vengeance RGB or Vengeance LPX, and Dominator, which shows up as Dominator Titanium or Dominator Platinum. Laptop kits appear as Vengeance SO-DIMM.
The line name tells you about the heatsink, the lighting and the price class. It does not tell you the speed. For that, read three things in each row: the type (DDR5 or DDR4), the speed with its CAS latency, and the price per GB. Two kits with the same speed and CL perform the same on paper, whatever their line. If a Dominator kit sits well above a Vengeance kit with matching numbers, the difference pays for the design, not for speed.
Which Corsair kit fits your build?
Start with the motherboard. DDR5 and DDR4 have the key notch in a different place, so a module of the wrong type does not go in. AMD AM5 and Intel Core Ultra 200S boards take DDR5 only; Intel 12th to 14th gen CPUs work with both, and the board decides which. On an older DDR4 board, compare the Corsair DDR4 kits, which start at $77.99 this week.
For a new desktop, buy a matched two module kit such as 2x16GB rather than two loose sticks. Mainstream desktops run in dual channel, and two modules give full bandwidth. See 32GB RAM prices for the same size from every brand, and DDR5 RAM prices for all DDR5 desktop kits.
On AM5, DDR5 6000 CL30 is the commonly recommended sweet spot according to Newegg's 2026 buying guide. That speed is above AMD's guaranteed spec, which is DDR5 5600 with two modules on the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, so it relies on the EXPO profile. Corsair kits at that speed and latency start at $559.99; compare them with all DDR5 6000 CL30 kits.
Corsair kit titles often name XMP (Intel) or EXPO (AMD). Enable the profile in the BIOS after you install the kit. Without it, a DDR5 6000 kit usually runs at a slower default such as 4800 or 5600.
Why are Corsair kits so much more expensive than last year?
The whole market moved, not only Corsair. PCMag, citing PCPartPicker data, reported that a Corsair Vengeance 32GB DDR5 6000 kit went from about $90 in July 2025 to about $200 by early November 2025. Our own figures for this week: change in the median Corsair price per GB over the last 4 weeks: not measured yet. The cheapest Corsair kit costs $77.99 at Corsair.com. Prices here are excluding sales tax; the final price is the one at the shop's checkout.