Availability and pricing on the greatest graphics playing cards proceed to enhance, with over half of the present era AMD and Nvidia GPUs now promoting at or under MSRP. We have been monitoring GPU costs on eBay for over a yr now, as that was once the most effective place to search out playing cards that have been truly in inventory, however that is not the case. Amazon, Newegg, and different on-line retailers routinely have stock accessible, typically for lower than you’d sometimes pay on eBay. You may as well get a brand new card somewhat than a doubtlessly used mannequin that may have been mined laborious for the previous two years.
We have pulled all the information into one place right here, the most effective value we are able to discover for the previous a number of generations of GPUs. That is eBay for something exterior of the RTX 30-series, RX 7000-series, and a few of the GTX 16-series playing cards as nicely. We’ll then rank the playing cards by bang for the buck (FPS per greenback spent) utilizing 1080p extremely efficiency information from our GPU benchmarks hierarchy. After all, that does not imply you need to exit and purchase an previous GPU, but it surely’s attention-grabbing to see simply how nicely a few of the playing cards maintain up even in fashionable video games.
The hyperlinks within the first column are for both eBay or Amazon, although for current-gen graphics playing cards, you will wish to examine Newegg and different retailers as nicely. Playing cards that ship modest efficiency with a low value rank greater than most newer fashions, however take note of the precise efficiency on faucet and the age of the graphics card. The R9 Fury X sits in second place, but it surely not has lively driver help, whereas the top-ranked GTX 780 is an older card that may’t truly run sure fashionable video games (like Far Cry 6).
The perfect fairly latest possibility goes to AMD’s RX 6600, which at the moment might be had for as little as $290 — $40 under the official MSRP. Typical efficiency is just like the GTX 1080 Ti, RTX 2060 Tremendous, and RX 5700, relying on the video games you are taking part in. The cardboard additionally solely wants about 140W, relying on the actual mannequin.
AMD’s RX 6600 XT, RX 6650 XT, RX 6700 XT, and RX 6750 XT all rating fairly excessive in total worth, whereas the most effective values for a GeForce RTX card belong to the earlier era RTX 2060, 2070, 2070 Tremendous, and RTX 2080. When you’re on the lookout for the most effective worth on an RTX 30-series GPU, the RTX 3060 and 3060 Ti land midway down the desk.
Once more, older GPUs aren’t essentially the best way to go, and uncooked efficiency might be extra necessary than a extra nebulous worth rating. Shopping for an inexpensive GTX 1060 3GB for $125 will suffice for lighter gaming and web browsing, however if you’d like 60 fps gaming at 1080p extremely, you will need a card not less than as quick as an RX 5700 or RTX 2060 Tremendous — which brings us again to the RX 6600 and 6600 XT talked about a second in the past, as these sometimes provide higher efficiency at a lower cost.
This is the identical info, however restricted to solely the 20 newest era GPUs from AMD and Nvidia. AMD’s worth proposition turns into much more apparent with this view, the place the mid-range to high-end RX 6000-series GPUs take the highest six spots. You may as well get playable efficiency at 1440p with almost all of those graphics playing cards, the only exception being the RX 6500 XT.
For Nvidia, regardless of nonetheless having considerably massive markups over the official MSRPs, the RTX 3060 and 3060 Ti are comparatively aggressive with AMD’s GPUs — particularly if we think about ray tracing efficiency and DLSS (which the efficiency numbers do not do for this desk). Nonetheless, the most effective worth AMD GPUs are at 0.20–0.23 FPS/$, whereas Nvidia’s GPUs are at 0.175 FPS/$. As you’d count on, the acute efficiency playing cards populate the underside of the desk, with the RTX 3090 Ti providing lower than half the FPS/$ of a lot of the different graphics playing cards. In actual fact, the one GPU in our full listing above that represents a worse worth is the Titan RTX.
Taking within the large image, graphics card costs dropped one other 15% on common in comparison with the earlier month. For AMD, solely the RX 6800 and 6800 XT price greater than their official MSRPs of $650 and $580, respectively. Conversely, most Nvidia RTX 30-series GPUs nonetheless promote for greater than the MSRP. The intense costs on the 3080 12GB and above imply these playing cards aren’t marked up as a lot, however the RTX 3050 by means of RTX 3080 10GB are marked up by 20% on common.
That is loads higher than the double or triple MSRPs that we noticed final yr, and we’re on target, so hopefully within the subsequent few months we’ll see all the playing cards promoting at or under their MSRPs. After which we’ll begin seeing the next-gen graphics playing cards, and the cycle can begin once more — simply with out cryptominers getting concerned.
