Hardware
PC Gamer just crowned 2026's 'best budget GPU' — and I think its 8GB of VRAM is a trap
The RTX 5050 is the cheap pick and the RX 9070 is the overall pick. Only one of them still makes sense a year from now.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 24 · 7 min
budget gpu
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Hardware
everyone's ignoring the $300 GPU that almost matches a $900 RTX 5070 — here's the catch
12GB of VRAM for around $300 sounds like the easy answer to Nvidia's price spike. It mostly is — you just have to fight the drivers a little.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 15 · 6 min
Deals
AMD's 16GB RX 9070 XT just got cheaper on Amazon — while every other GPU on the planet is going up
$695 for 16GB of VRAM while Nvidia is pushing RTX 5090s past $5,100 overseas — here's whether the Gigabyte Gaming OC is actually worth grabbing right now.
Nadia Rahman · Aug 8 · 7 min
Hardware
Someone's turning dead $500 GPUs into 22GB VRAM monsters — here's the catch nobody's mentioning
A Hong Kong shop is doubling old RTX 2080 Ti cards to 22GB of VRAM and selling them on eBay for about $500. I ran the actual math on whether that's a steal or a trap.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 8 · 8 min
Deals
AMD is basically giving away an $89 cooler with this 16GB GPU — the local-AI math actually works
a limited-time Newegg bundle drops the effective price of a 16GB RX 9070 XT to $659 — here's whether that's actually a good local-AI buy
Nadia Rahman · Aug 4 · 5 min
Hardware
I put three budget GPUs head-to-head for local AI — only one earns its higher price
Arc B580, RX 9060 XT 16GB, and RTX 5060 Ti 16GB are all fighting for the same budget local-AI buyer in 2026. Real prices and real bandwidth numbers settle it.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 4 · 6 min
Hardware
Nvidia's new RTX 5050 is barely faster than a GPU from 2021 — skip it
It launched at $249 promising a fresh budget option. A few months later, a used RTX 3070 for about the same money makes it a hard sell.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 3 · 6 min
Hardware
AMD brought back the 4GB graphics card everyone agreed was dead — here's why
The $279 RX 9050 looks like a normal budget GPU launch, until you notice AMD quietly brought back a 64-bit, 4GB memory config nobody's shipped since 2022.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 1 · 6 min
Hardware
the RTX 5060 just jumped $75 overnight in China — and that's usually how it starts
A $299 budget GPU got $75 pricier in 72 hours flat. Here's the actual chain of events, and the honest call on buying now versus waiting.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 1 · 7 min