diff --git a/karpenter/src/helpers/parseRam.test.ts b/karpenter/src/helpers/parseRam.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8c9faf8a39
--- /dev/null
+++ b/karpenter/src/helpers/parseRam.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+import { parseRam } from './parseRam';
+
+describe('parseRam', () => {
+  it('returns 0 for missing or unparseable values', () => {
+    expect(parseRam('')).toBe(0);
+    expect(parseRam('abc')).toBe(0);
+    expect(parseRam('1Xi')).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it('parses decimal quantities', () => {
+    expect(parseRam('1.5Gi')).toBe(1.5 * 1024 ** 3);
+    expect(parseRam('1.5G')).toBe(1.5e9);
+  });
+
+  it('parses Pi and Ei', () => {
+    expect(parseRam('2Pi')).toBe(2 * 1024 ** 5);
+    expect(parseRam('2Ei')).toBe(2 * 1024 ** 6);
+  });
+
+  it('treats suffixes without i as decimal multiples', () => {
+    expect(parseRam('1G')).toBe(1e9);
+    expect(parseRam('1Gi')).toBe(1024 ** 3);
+  });
+
+  it('parses plain byte counts and existing binary units', () => {
+    expect(parseRam('1000')).toBe(1000);
+    expect(parseRam('64Gi')).toBe(68719476736);
+    expect(parseRam('700Mi')).toBe(734003200);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/karpenter/src/helpers/parseRam.tsx b/karpenter/src/helpers/parseRam.tsx
index 4053c17ed5..a54bc63867 100644
--- a/karpenter/src/helpers/parseRam.tsx
+++ b/karpenter/src/helpers/parseRam.tsx
@@ -1,21 +1,13 @@
+const DECIMAL_UNITS = ['', 'K', 'M', 'G', 'T', 'P', 'E'];
+
 export function parseRam(ramStr: string): number {
   if (!ramStr) return 0;
-  const match = ramStr.match(/^(\d+)([KMGT]i?)?$/i);
-  if (!match) return 0;
 
-  const num = parseInt(match[1]);
-  const unit = match[2]?.toUpperCase();
+  const match = `${ramStr}`.trim().match(/^(\d+(?:\.\d+)?)(?:([KMGTPE])(i)?)?$/i);
+  if (!match) return 0;
 
-  const units: Record<string, number> = {
-    K: 1024,
-    KI: 1024,
-    M: 1024 * 1024,
-    MI: 1024 * 1024,
-    G: 1024 * 1024 * 1024,
-    GI: 1024 * 1024 * 1024,
-    T: 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024,
-    TI: 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024,
-  };
+  const num = parseFloat(match[1]);
+  const exponent = DECIMAL_UNITS.indexOf(match[2]?.toUpperCase() ?? '');
 
-  return num * (units[unit] || 1);
+  return num * (match[3] ? 1024 : 1000) ** exponent;
 }