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… Aliteq Lena Fischer · AI & Local Compute Editor

RTX 5060 Ti 16GB: $569.99 → $804.99 median (39% up) — the worst-hit card in the RTX 50 lineup

RTX 5070: $659.99 → $899.99 median (36% up), now roughly $75 per GB of VRAM

RTX 5080: barely moved, up just 3% to ~$1,500 — now the least-bad value in the upper-midrange

RTX 5090 street prices run $4,400–4,829+, up to 130%+ over its $1,999 MSRP

Budget picks (Arc B580, RX 9060 XT 16GB) haven't spiked anywhere near as hard and are now the cheapest VRAM per dollar on the market

Buy for the model you're actually running, not the biggest number you can afford. Right now that means the RX 9060 XT over the RTX 5060 Ti unless you specifically need CUDA. Don't buy an RTX 5090 to…

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