You can finally get an RX 9070 (non XT), for under $600 MSRP now.
NewEgg has the ASRock 9070 at $530 right now.
You can even find 9070 XTs at $600.
The next closest GPU from Nvidia in terms of performance per $ is the RTX 5060.
Which is about half as performant as a normal 9070.
The Nvidia 5070 TI is a bit more performant than a 9070, a bit less than a 9070 XT… and its at $750.
It would be extremely wild if a techtuber did a ‘lets revisit price per performance’ for GPUs right now.
Where I live the cheapest 9070 (non XT) costs USD 635, and this is sort of a special price (albeit it could become base in a few months). Median competitive price is closer to USD 700+.
Cheapest 5060 (8GB) is around USD 340 (median competitive is close).
5060 Ti (16 GB) is around USD 550 (median competitive is close).
AMD in my country is no go outside of some older, super low end SKUs (but you can also get better Nvidia cards second hand).
I don’t care about brands, but where I live AMD is not really competitive (assuming like for like software support).
Ah, sorry, I should have specified I was talking about US prices. =X
No worries, I get that.
I am just saying globally prices are more variable. I can’t speak for EU specifically, but our prices generally track EU (more so than US).
AMD needs to compete directly with Nvidia, but they won’t since GPUs are a (US) government backed oligopoly.
GPU prices coming down are an indicator of the overall market sentiment around buying and building PCs with parts.
5090 are still not anywhere at MSRP though reliably. Seems like 2800 is the lowest on a shelf near me. 9070xt comfortably under 600 now though.
Memory prices are hitting the news everywhere but even at 200% or 300% of normal price you’re still saving money over buying a gaming GPU in the first 6 months of the year when GPUs were chronically sold out. 16GB is kind of tight but 32gb is only $250 for 2x16gb @ 6000mhz CL30 at microcenter right near me. If this is “200-300%” pricing then I don’t see what the big deal is.
News outlets have pointed the finger at “AI” rollouts, but we’re several years in to AI rollouts and although HBM memory used in AI cards has had elevated prices, it hasn’t affected desktop memory very much until the last couple of months. I suspect pre-emptive hoarding by commercial system builders is more to blame as companies like lenovo have mentioned having 150%+ of normal part inventory levels. Buy and hoard has been a key strategy to handling taco tariffs too for all kinds of nonperishable products all year long.
Didn’t read the article, but how is the ram on gpus getting cheaper but ram sticks more expensive? Aren’t they the same hardware?
The RAM on GPUs is not getting cheaper. It is actually what is driving up all RAM costs.
GPU prices are a lagging indicator. They’ll be going back up soon as well.
