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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

A graphics card on a retail store shelf with a price tag, as AMD confirms a 10-15% GPU price increase for August 2026.

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AMD had a GPU price hike ready for months. it just waited for Nvidia to go first

AMD finalized this price increase weeks ago and sat on it, waiting to see if Nvidia would take the backlash first. Now that Nvidia's moved, so has AMD.

Nadia Rahman · Aug 6 · 6 min

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card box next to a 360mm liquid cooling radiator

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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

An Nvidia RTX graphics card installed in a desktop PC, representing the 16GB tier compared in this guide

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amd's 16GB GPU is $400 cheaper than nvidia's — for local AI it's not the easy win it sounds like

Same 16GB of VRAM, wildly different price and software maturity in August 2026 — I ran the actual numbers.

Ravi Malhotra · Aug 4 · 6 min

An AMD Radeon graphics card with red accent lighting on a dark background

AMD's big AI event was all about chips you'll never buy. the one you actually can already shipped

Instinct MI400 and Helios racks got the headlines at Advancing AI 2026 — but the actual local-AI hardware for individuals already exists, and it's cheaper than an RTX 5090.

Lena Fischer · Aug 1 · 7 min

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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

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Amazon's $85-off RX 9070 XT deal isn't the actual deal this week. here's the one that was

The 'MSRP' this deal discounts from isn't AMD's real MSRP — and at least three cheaper listings existed the same week. Here's the actual math, plus a genuinely free alternative worth entering.

Nadia Rahman · Jul 31 · 6 min

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the best 1440p GPU in 2026 is a genuine coin-flip — here's how to actually pick

RTX 5070 or RX 9070 XT? One wins on features, the other on raw frames and VRAM. Here's the honest 1440p gaming GPU answer for 2026, based on what you actually play.

Ravi Malhotra · Jul 31 · 12 min