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AI

GPU prices just jumped up to 39% in two months — here's what's actually worth buying for local AI now

The RTX 5060 Ti got hit hardest, the RTX 5080 barely moved, and that flipped the value math. Here's what actually makes sense, card by card, in August 2026.

Lena Fischer · 1d ago · 9 min

Hardware

Meta's new AI model runs at home now — one $1,299 AMD card almost keeps up with a $4,700 Nvidia one

AMD's own numbers put its workstation GPU at 53 tokens a second on Meta's new 30B model. Nvidia's flagship does more — for over three times the price.

Ravi Malhotra · 4d ago · 6 min

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 · 4d ago · 6 min

Deals

nvidia is selling the RTX 5090 for $1,999 this week — but only if you're in Dallas

QuakeCon 2026 is, right now, the one place on the planet where Nvidia's flagship still costs what it said on the box.

Nadia Rahman · Aug 7 · 6 min

Hardware

nvidia's flagship GPU just crossed $5,100 — for local AI, that math doesn't work anymore

South Korea is the canary. TSMC wafer costs and $20 memory chips just pushed the RTX 5090 to 2.5x its sticker price — here's the actual buy-or-skip math for running AI models at home.

Ravi Malhotra · Aug 4 · 8 min

Hardware

an RTX 5080 now costs more than an RTX 5090 did at launch. no, that's not a typo

Nvidia just hiked GPU prices for the third time this year, and for the first time it hit everything — not just the flagship.

Ravi Malhotra · Jul 31 · 7 min

Hardware

the best 4K gaming GPU in 2026 isn't the RTX 5090 — and the reason is pure math

The RTX 5090 is the fastest card money can buy. It's also terrible value for pure gaming. Here's the 4K GPU you should actually buy in 2026, and why the $999 card beats the $1,999 one for most people.

Ravi Malhotra · Jul 31 · 11 min

AI

the local AI workstation that runs 70B models: the ~$3,500 build, and the smarter way to spend it

To run a 70-billion-parameter model at home you need ~48GB of VRAM. Here's the build that gets you there — and why two cheaper cards beat one expensive one.

Ravi Malhotra · Jul 30 · 9 min