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You may have seen our in -depth reviews for the new NVIDIA RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 And I decided that instead it would be better to spend your money on the RTX 40-series card. AMD RDNA 4 Cards Won’t Be Here For Another Month, So You Decided To Go Hunting For Nice RTX 4070 Super or RX 7900 XTS However, if you stick to the large retailers in the US, you will be served a whole load of nothing. Err, Hi AMD and NVIDIA? Where are all your graphics cards?
I just spent the last two hours updating our GPU deals page by hunting all graphics card lists in Amazon, NEWEGG, Best Buy, Walmart and B&H Photo to find the best offers of AMD Radeon, Intel Arc and Nvidia GeForce models. Instead of going into details about each model I was looking for, let me just show you this simple summary:
- RTX 5090: Sold out (or high)
- RTX 5080: Sold out (or high)
- RTX 4090: Sold out (or high)
- RTX 4080 Super: Sold out (or high)
- RTX 4070 Ti Super: Sold out (or high)
- RTX 4070 Super: Sold out (or high)
- RTX 4070: Sold out (or high)
- RTX 4060 is: $ 400 @ Amazon
- RTX 4060: $ 295 @ NEWEGG
- RX 7900 XTX: Sold out (or high)
- RX 7900 XT: $ 730 @ Amazon
- RX 7900 GRE: Sold out (or high)
- RX 7800 XT: $ 490 @ Amazon
- RX 7700 XT: $ 400 @ Amazon
- RX 7600: $ 260 @ Walmart
- ARC B580: Sold out (or high)
- ARC B570: $ 230 @ NEWEGG
Yes, that’s right. Almost the entire middle-class graphics card equipment or higher level is gone. There’s a zipper, nothing, nyet, nada, nowt. Well, well, there is some GPU you can find, but they are either sold in much above their MSRP, or the traders in question do not have inspirational reviews.
If I’m going to spend more than $ 500 on a graphics card, I want to be sure that the return policy is solid as a steel and that I will get my money back if I was sent a literal brick. The situation is not massively better here in the UK, although you can still get RX 7900 XTX or RTX 4080 Super At a price under MSRP.
So what the hell is going on? Why is there such a shortage of graphics cards? The reason is simple (ISSH): AMD and NVIDIA have decided to stop the production of their “Last Generation” cards well before the wealth of new models can replace them. The sales percentage of distribution centers and large retailers are extremely high, probably because they expected many new cards to arrive in January.
But what we actually received was almost a paper launch with the RTX 50-series, with so many numbers of RTX 5090 and 5080 cards that traders’ shelves were naked in just minutes to the products that are sold. In some cases, the shelves were empty before this point because they had already been sold. AMD, on the other hand, irritate the rdna 4 in front of our eyes to CES but then took weeks before it finally announces that The cards themselves will not be ready by the beginning of MarchS
Meanwhile, budget PC gamers have looked at the prices of Blackwell cards, blinking several times and then escaped to click the other shares with a higher RTX 40 cards. Do you want to get a RTX 4070 version? I’m afraid, I’m afraid, but you can Get pretty nice RX 7800 XT For a reasonable price. This is a graphic processor that I regularly use to test the performance of the game and this is a real middle -class graphics card soldier.
The obvious question you have to ask at this point is: “When will GPU shares improve?” Unfortunately, no one has a specific answer to this request, but I suspect it will not be for some time, as March is the most – Early. Then we will be able to take our hands on the Radeon RX 9070 series, but if AMD and its partners cannot respond to the demand, we will return to a square.
NVIDIA’s RTX 5070 and 5070 Ti is expected to be released at the end of February, but after a shortage of 5080 shelves cards (well, the shortage of a reasonable prices of 5080 cards), I am not too optimistic about 5070 stocks well.
And don’t look at Intel to save the day, as it can hardly get enough ARC 580 cards to meet the search. Slightly smaller the powerful B570 it It is available, but this is a budget card, although not enough budget compared to similar prices, but obviously superb Arc b580S Intel just has nothing to offer the market for the average scope/mainstream and probably doesn’t have a long time (if at all).
All this means that any graphics card you currently have will have to be enough for a long time. I would avoid going down the second-hand route if you have a rather old graphics processor and hope to pick up a cheap RTX 30-series, for example, as prices have increased due to a shortage of new models.
The truth of the question is now that AMD and NVIDIA make gazilion dollars in the data center market, graphics cards for the games are just out of works For revenue sheets. Fancy New Graphics Architectures are useful for titles, but it’s just not where the money is. Nice for the chip giants, rotten for computer gamers. The same as it used to be, I guess.
