According to TrendForce News on 24 August 2026, Bloomberg reported that prices for servers with NVIDIA chips would rise by more than 15% for some large customers on systems shipped early in 2027, with the size varying by chip generation and memory configuration [21]. That reported NVIDIA server price increase follows a year of rising memory prices. TrendForce, a market research firm, estimated on 25 August 2026 that server DRAM (dynamic random-access memory) contract prices rose 64% in the second half of 2025, and forecast a rise of about 270% across 2026 [17].
Memory reaches a server price by two routes. Host memory and drives are lines a buyer selects and a seller prices. The high-bandwidth memory (HBM) on the GPUs sits inside the GPU board, which no configurator reviewed prices on its own [5, 7]. In archived and live captures of the same builds at the seller Exxact, default prices rose 13.7% to 44.1% over windows of about six to fifteen months ending 8 November 2026 (arithmetic on [7, 8, 9, 10]). Each figure is a listing, an asking price on its date, and none records a sale.
Three kinds of memory in a GPU server
| Memory | Where it sits | How a listing shows it |
|---|---|---|
| HBM | On the GPU board. NVIDIA lists 2.1 TB in total for HGX B300 and 1.4 TB for HGX B200 [1] | Inside the GPU board or chassis line, with no price of its own [5, 7] |
| Host memory | DDR5 registered modules (RDIMMs). Dell's XE9780 has 32 slots for 64 GB, 96 GB or 128 GB modules [4] | Module size and count, priced per option [5, 7] |
| Drives | Solid-state drives (SSDs) on the NVM Express (NVMe) interface. The DGX B300 carries eight 3.84 TB cache drives [2] | Priced per drive [7] |
NVIDIA states the B300 figure two ways: 2.1 TB on its HGX page [1] and "8 x 288 GB = 2.3 TB total" in its DGX B300 user guide [2]. Rack-scale systems also carry CPU memory. The GB300 NVL72 lists 20 TB of GPU memory and 17 TB of LPDDR5X for its CPUs [3]. Per bit, HBM takes more factory capacity than other memory: Micron writes that it "requires a higher number of wafers and more cleanroom space to produce the same number of bits as conventional DRAM" [25].
Host memory floors for eight-GPU servers
Dell's technical guide for the PowerEdge XE9780 relays NVIDIA's design guide: an eight-GPU server needs more than 1 TB of host memory with B200 GPUs and more than 2 TB with B300 [4]. Thinkmate's pages relay 1.5 TB for B200 and 2 TB for B300 [5, 6]. NVIDIA's DGX B300 ships with 2 TB by default, configurable up to 4 TB [2].
At those sizes memory is a large line. On Thinkmate's B300 page on 8 November 2026, the default 32 modules of 64 GB cost $167,616, or 25.2% of the $664,479.48 sum of the default lines (arithmetic on [6]). With 3 TB the share came to 31.3% (arithmetic on [6]). Thinkmate's B200 default carried 1,024 GB, below the 1.5 TB note on its own page, and moving it to 2 TB added $81,600 (arithmetic on [5]). The HGX price explainer sets these memory lines beside the rest of an HGX B200 or B300 build.
Memory contract prices in 2026
TrendForce's quarterly forecasts, as stated in the text of each release:
| Release | Period | Forecast |
|---|---|---|
| 2 February 2026 | First quarter | Server DRAM up "around 90%". Enterprise SSD +53% to 58% [12] |
| 31 March 2026 | Second quarter | Conventional DRAM +58% to 63%. NAND flash +70% to 75% [13] |
| 9 July 2026 | Third quarter | Server DRAM +13% to 18% [15] |
| 30 September 2026 | Fourth quarter | Conventional DRAM +10% to 15%, with server DRAM "expected to remain undersupplied" [19] |
These are a research firm's forecasts. Memory makers' filings show what they realized. Micron's average DRAM selling prices rose about 180% in its fiscal year to 3 September 2026, and its NAND prices about 200% [25].
Long-term agreements shape who carries the increase. SK hynix reported on 28 October 2026 agreements with 14 major customers covering more than 50% of its 2027 and 2028 production capacity, priced "within a price range agreed upon with customers" [27]. Micron counts 26 strategic customer agreements, and three-quarters of the revenue they cover has a defined pricing framework, mostly bands with floor and ceiling prices [26]. TrendForce wrote on 9 July 2026 that from the third quarter, server DRAM increases would fall mainly on customers without such agreements and on supply sold outside them [15].
Behind the reported NVIDIA server price increase
NVIDIA's supply commitments rose from $119 billion to $279 billion in the quarter to 26 July 2026, "primarily related to the procurement of memory" [24]. Its quarterly report counts "memory and component costs" in its cost of revenue, and states that its pricing "generally does not fluctuate with short-term changes in our costs" [23]. DIGITIMES reported on 24 August 2026 that some NVIDIA-based systems for 2027 delivery would rise by more than 15%, and certain flagship configurations by about 17%, "as higher memory and other component costs feed through" [22].
Server makers name memory directly. HPE's server revenue rose 35.3% in the quarter to 31 July 2026, mainly on a higher average selling price "primarily driven by commodity price increases, especially memory and SSDs" [30]. Dell's quarterly report for the same quarter describes "substantial inflation in memory component costs", and Dell expected on 8 September 2026 that component cost inflation would persist through the rest of its fiscal 2027 [28]. TrendForce wrote on 25 August 2026 that elevated memory costs give "server and AI chip suppliers such as NVIDIA" greater justification for raising product prices [17]. The GPU system lead times report follows the same HBM supply and memory agreements through to delivery dates.
The same server at two dates
| Exxact build | First like-for-like capture | 8 November 2026 | Change (arithmetic) |
|---|---|---|---|
| TS4-128275176, HGX B200, 2,048 GB | 3 August 2025, $338,484.30 | $487,718.00 | +44.1% |
| TS4-142487900, HGX B200, 1,536 GB | 16 May 2026, $381,067.50 | $447,238.00 | +17.4% |
| TS4-131188947, HGX B300, 2,048 GB | 16 February 2026, $458,986.00 | $529,958.00 | +15.5% |
| TS4-198437339, HGX B300, 3,072 GB | 22 January 2026, $496,848.00 | $564,718.00 | +13.7% |
Sources: [7, 8, 9, 10]. Default builds with the same CPUs, memory, drives, GPU board and warranty at both dates, except that the January build of TS4-198437339 also listed a 10GbE network card.
The GPU board has no price line, so these rises cannot be split between memory and GPUs. The option prices show memory directly. On TS4-131188947, moving 32 modules from 64 GB to 96 GB added $31,680 on 16 February 2026, $70,400 on 16 May 2026 and $21,120 on 8 November 2026 [9]. On TS4-128275176, one 3.84 TB NVMe drive went from $616 in August 2025 to $2,310 in July 2026 and $1,980 in November 2026 [7].
Price indexes and listings
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics producer price index for host computers, which includes PC servers, held at 99.761 in every month from October 2025 to September 2026 [32]. Its index for computer storage devices rose 80.7% from December 2025 to September 2026 (arithmetic on [33]). Recent months are preliminary and can be revised [32, 33].
The producer price index is "a constant quality fixed-input output price index" [34]. A configurator default is one seller's asking price for a build it can change. The sources give no reason for the flat server index.
Comparing GPU server prices across dates
Listings move within weeks. Between 24 October and 8 November 2026, Exxact's TS4-131188947 rose $13,921.60, or 2.7% (arithmetic on [9, 35]). Thinkmate states that its configurator prices "cannot be guaranteed to be accurate until reviewed and accepted by Thinkmate" and "are intended for same-day purchase", and it offers a formal quote as a separate step [5, 6]. The reported early-2027 increase applies by ship date [21].
A comparison across dates holds when the build, the seller and the evidence class all match. The evidence classes note separates listings from quotes and sales, and what sets the price of a used H100 server applies the same reading to older systems, where condition and records also move the price.
Rillor's GPU systems pricing method models each configuration by GPU family, GPU count, memory, CPU, interconnect, cooling, condition, location and seller type, and every observation keeps its capture time and source.
Read the full report
The full report adds TrendForce's forecasts quarter by quarter, the memory makers' agreements, each archived capture with its memory and drive options, the price index tables and the numbered sources.