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Graphics cards displayed on a retail electronics store shelf

GPU deals are basically dead this month — here's the short list of stuff still worth buying

Every major GPU tracker just posted its worst numbers of the year. I went through the wreckage to find what's still a fair price.

Nadia Rahman · Aug 15 · 6 min

An Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 graphics card sitting on a desk

Deals

Nvidia sold GPUs at MSRP for one weekend. everywhere else, prices just jumped 39%

For four days in Texas you could buy an RTX 5090 at launch price. This week, Newegg's median RTX 5070 costs $240 more than it did in June.

Nadia Rahman · Aug 11 · 6 min

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card, the flagship of the RTX 50 series

Hardware

nvidia's about to hike GPU prices again — here's the actual buy-or-wait math for local AI

A third price hike in one year is reportedly coming for the RTX 50 series — and if you're buying VRAM for local AI, not frame rates, the calculation isn't the same as 'wait for a sale.'

Ravi Malhotra · Aug 4 · 7 min