Traders say nothing moved this week, and customers are back in numbers after a quiet monsoon. But set against May, the list has shifted a great deal — and in two opposite directions at once.
Processors: down across the board
Every Intel part in the list fell, and the flagship fell hardest. The Core i9 14th gen is Tk 55,000, against Tk 72,000 in February — a cut of Tk 17,000.
- Core i7 14th gen — Tk 48,500 → 44,500 (−4,000)
- Core i7 13th gen — Tk 43,000 → 40,000 (−3,000)
- Core Ultra 5 245KF — Tk 37,500 → 34,500 (−3,000)
- Core i5 14th gen — Tk 32,000 → 29,000 (−3,000)
- Core i5 13th gen — Tk 22,500 → 20,500 (−2,000)
- Ryzen 9 7900X — Tk 42,000 → 39,000 (−3,000)
- Ryzen 7 5700G — Tk 17,000 → 15,000 (−2,000)
- Ryzen 5 5600G — Tk 13,200 → 14,800 (+1,600, the one exception)
New at the top: the Core Ultra 9 285K at Tk 72,000 and the Core Ultra 7 265K at Tk 44,500, alongside an Asus Prime Z890-Plus CSM board (DDR5, Wi-Fi 7) at Tk 38,000.
Memory: up, and sharply
RAM is the story of this round. Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB DDR4 3200 is Tk 6,000, up from Tk 3,900 in May — a rise of 54% in four months. G.Skill Trident Z 8 GB DDR4 went Tk 3,300 → 4,100; TwinMOS 8 GB Tk 2,300 → 3,000.
DDR5 now has a proper range on the shelf: Transcend JetRAM 8 GB Tk 3,500, 16 GB Tk 6,500, 32 GB Tk 12,000; Corsair Vengeance RGB 16 GB 6000 MHz Tk 9,000.
Storage drifted the same way — Samsung 980 NVMe 500 GB Tk 6,750 → 7,300, the 870 EVO Tk 6,800 → 7,200, WD My Passport 1 TB Tk 7,000 → 8,000. And at the top of graphics, the MSI RTX 5080 went Tk 170,000 → 190,000.
Why the two directions
The directions matter more than any single figure, because the two movements have unrelated causes and only one of them will reverse.
Processors are falling because of a product cycle. Intel is clearing 14th-generation stock ahead of newer parts, which is why the cuts are deepest at the top of the range where the new Core Ultra chips compete. That is a discount with an end date: once the old stock is gone, so is the price.
Memory is rising because of AI. Manufacturers are shifting fabrication capacity towards the high-bandwidth memory that AI servers consume, which leaves less line time for ordinary DDR4 and DDR5. That is not a local shortage and not a seasonal one — it is global demand from an industry that pays more per wafer than the consumer market can.
Dhaka feels it early and in full because every stick is imported, with no domestic production to cushion the move and an exchange rate on top.
What that means if you are buying
The usual advice is inverted this quarter. Buy the memory now and let the processor wait.
A CPU discount driven by stock clearance will still be there next month and may deepen; memory priced by a global capacity shift will not be cheaper, and the 54% already seen suggests the direction has further to run. If you are building before year-end exams, the memory is the part to secure first — the opposite of how most people sequence a build.
Market survey reported by Prothom Alo. Anything absent from the lists above was unchanged from May.
