Each time, the main computer – one of the last remaining dedicated Silicon Valley computer stores – allows users to know that they are able to get a small shipment of AMD graphics cards. Today, it informed me that I can now buy $ 600 Redon RX 9070 XT in $ 850 – a $ 250 markup.
This is not lonely. I just examined every major American retailer and street prices on the eBay, and I am sorry to inform you: GPU’s tremendous decline has returned. Many AMD cards are being marked for $ 100, $ 200, $ 250, even $ 280. The street price of Nvidia RTX 5080 is now more than $ 1,500, which is a full $ 500 more than MSRP. And an RTX 5090, the most powerful user GPU? Today you can’t even get $ 2,000 cards at $ 3,000.
Here, I have made tables to show you:
You should not just accuse the taxes for raising these prices. In early March, we found that retailers were already taking the skull of MSRP models of their admission level of new AMD graphics cards. Nor is it more likely to be demanded, seeing how some cards are changing on the eBay: only 1,100 new NVIDIA GPUS, and about 266 new AMD GPUs were listed there in the last 30 days.
Here is a deep diver on the “MSRP” models of AMD cards, which were all actually listed in 9 549 or 9 599:
I have focused this table on the Navig and Micro Center as they have more models than any other retailer, though I also saw the “MSRP” 9070 XT card in Amazon today at $ 800 and 50 850, and also 830 830 cards on Best Baest. Otherwise, these are the new prices of the sticker, not necessarily the acquired prices, because most of the stock were out of stock.
From December 2020 to July 2022, I periodically detected game consoles and GPU prices during the pandemic diseases of Kovide 19, when acquiring them was incredibly expensive. At one point, some GPUs were three times capable of their MSRP. I would love to hear Stuffy Especially subscribers: Is this a valuable service that we should continue in the tariff era? Or do you just want to know when to enter the water?
