Information technology's time to talk about graphics bill of fare pricing once again. Like to our article a couple of months ago, today we're exploring cards yous tin actually buy right now and at what prices, how that compares to previous months, which ones are the all-time value for money, and whether you should fifty-fifty purchase one at all right now.

At this signal you must exist familiar with the story of graphics card pricing. Early in 2022 things were going nicely on the graphics card market; yous could notice well-nigh cards in stock and at prices well-nigh their MSRP. But then equally cryptocurrency mining started to boom in the later parts of 2022, and especially in early 2022, prices for cards started to soar equally eager miners bought them in droves.

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The market was likewise affected by increasing retentiveness prices. Graphics card manufacturers accept been forced to spend more money to become the GDDR5 and HBM modules used with nigh GPUs, and that's led to an increase in the price of manufacturing these cards, which of grade is and then passed on to the consumer. If you're looking for someone to arraign for that one, ship your angry emails to Samsung, Micron and SK Hynix.

The combination of those two factors fabricated buying a graphics card an absolute nightmare at the cease of 2022 and get-go of 2022. In that location was a betoken around January this year where you'd be lucky to find a GPU in stock, and if yous did, you were faced with prices more than double the MSRP in some cases. Luckily, mid way through March or and then, the profitability of mining on consumer GPUs dropped away, and stock started to return to the market. Apparently likewise much stock, at to the lowest degree if you believe some recent reports suggesting Nvidia over-ordered GPUs to the tune of 300,000 units.

When nosotros last looked at GPU pricing in May, prices of popular graphics cards had dropped significantly since the heights of January, and there was a articulate trajectory suggesting the market would return to near-MSRP levels in merely a few months. Well, it'due south now the middle of July and in some ways, the GPU market place is now looking pretty proficient for prospective buyers.

MSRP Apr
2022		 November 2022 January
2022		 Current Typical
(July 2022)		 Current
Best
(July 2022)
GeForce
GTX 1050 Ti		 $140 $150 $160 $190 $190 $170
GeForce
GTX 1060 3GB		 $200 $220 $235 $410 $260 $230
GeForce
GTX 1060 6GB		 $250 $280 $310 $530 $300 $260
GeForce
GTX 1070		 $380 $420 $470 $890 $440 $400
GeForce
GTX 1070 Ti		 $450 $500 $900 $480 $450
GeForce
GTX 1080		 $500 $560 $590 $940 $530 $500
GeForce
GTX 1080 Ti		 $700 $755 $740 $i,200 $750 $720
Radeon
RX 550		 $80 $80 $100 $120 $130 $115
Radeon
RX 560 16CU		 $100 $130 $140 $160 $150
Radeon
RX 570		 $170 $190 $250 $540 $280 $240
Radeon
RX 580 8GB		 $230 $260 $310 $660 $300 $270
Radeon
RX Vega 56		 $400 $450 $670 $500 $480
Radeon
RX Vega 64		 $500 $505 $800 $580 $580

Looking at the current line-upwards of Nvidia GeForce cards y'all can see the pricing trend pretty conspicuously. The current #1 graphics card, the GTX 1060 6GB, was priced every bit high every bit $530 in Jan, more than double its $250 MSRP. That came down to $330 in May and now they are regularly found for $300 or so when looking at 'typical' pricing across a range of retailers. While the cheapest cards haven't hit MSRP just yet, prices are dropping.

It's even better news for Nvidia's higher end products. The GTX 1070 was up over $800 in January, and dropped to just $520 in May, but these days you tin can find plenty available for less than $450 and the cheapest models are available at simply $20 above the card'southward $380 MSRP. Information technology'southward even better news for the GTX 1070 Ti and GTX 1080, which tin now be found at the MSRP.

Ane of the cards that didn't drop in toll all that much from January to May was the GTX 1080 Ti. Final time we checked the card was still more than $200 above the MSRP. Today, that gap has shrunk massively to the point where the cheapest 1080 Tis are but $20 above MSRP.

Switching over to AMD cards and it'southward a similar story. The RX 570 and RX 580 in particular were massively inflated in January, costing more than than triple the MSRP, and fifty-fifty in May those cards were still well above the MSRP. We're nonetheless non seeing MSRP-like prices today, and I uncertainty we always volition, but both models tin can now be found below $300 which a couple of months ago was very difficult.

Vega 56 and Vega 64 cards are more readily available, and in fact this is probably the only time since around their launch in the middle of 2022 that it'due south been possible to buy these cards hands. We're all the same looking at prices $80 above the MSRP, but both utilize HBM2 and the cost of ownership HBM2 fries has increased significantly since launch, and then that kinda makes sense.

Looking at price drops since January and a lot of cards have received a 40 to 50 percent price cut, particularly in the loftier finish. It's only really the lower-end cards like the GTX 1050 Ti and RX 550 that are still inflated, though again retention prices are to blame equally a much college percent of the manufacturing costs for these cards at present lies with the retentiveness modules.

Compared to merely two months ago virtually cards have come downward in price by at least 9 percent, if non more, and that'south over a pretty short space of time. Things are settling back down to normal simply nosotros're withal non quite at MSRP for nearly cards.

Nvidia's peak-end cards are at or close to MSRP in the best case scenario, though their lower-end cards are a flake inflated. AMD's line-up is all the same at to the lowest degree fifteen% higher up MSRP, though like with Nvidia'southward mid-range and entry-level cards, I tin can't see the cost of these cards coming down too much more due to the higher toll of GDDR5 and HBM2 compared to launch.