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The RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB currently costs more than the RTX 5070 and RX 9070 XT, and I know which one I'd pick

Jacob Ridley — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:37:20 +0000

Prices for graphics cards are still on the rise. Just last week, we noted prices were at the worst we've seen them in the past 12 months, but after further checks this morning, they're looking worse again still.

Among the worst offenders, the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB. With memory being the main driving factor of price hikes in the past 12 months, it's perhaps no surprise that this memory-laden card is rising faster than most. Yet prices are beyond the pale.

In my search for a brand new card from a reputable retailer, this was the cheapest I could find: an MSI Shadow RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB for $780. Not only is that more expensive than the best value RTX 5070 I could find at $763, but it's far in excess of AMD's RX 9070 XT. That's just $720. It's also in excess of the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB, which I've found at $430. A $350 premium for the 16 GB model.

There's little reason to purchase an RTX 5060 Ti for gaming at that price. It wasn't even a card I liked much at MSRP. I like lots of VRAM as much as the next guy, and it makes a difference to the overall performance, but there's a limit to how much I'd be willing to spend to get it.

Lowest price per GPU

We've been measuring the lowest available price of each current-gen GPU since August 14, 2025.

Lowest pricing (Price, $)

Week

Lowest pricing Data
Timestamp (Week)	AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE (Price, $)	AMD RX 9060 XT 16 GB (Price, $)	AMD RX 9060 XT 8 GB (Price, $)	AMD RX 9070 (Price, $)	AMD RX 9070 XT (Price, $)	Intel Arc B570 (Price, $)	Intel Arc B580 (Price, $)	Nvidia RTX 5050 (Price, $)	Nvidia RTX 5060 (Price, $)	Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB (Price, $)	Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB (Price, $)	Nvidia RTX 5070 (Price, $)	Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti (Price, $)	Nvidia RTX 5080 (Price, $)
1	N/A	370	280	600	700	230	260	250	300	430	368	550	780	1100
2	N/A	370	270	600	700	230	260	250	300	430	340	550	750	1099
3	N/A	370	280	550	700	230	250	250	291	430	370	524	750	1000
4	N/A	370	280	550	695	230	250	250	296	430	345	546	750	1000
5	N/A	350	270	600	670	230	250	250	300	430	340	481	749	1000
6	N/A	350	270	600	670	230	250	240	289	379	340	499	749	929
7	N/A	350	270	550	650	230	250	240	299	430	350	520	750	999
8	N/A	350	270	550	650	200	250	250	299	430	342	500	749	980
9	N/A	350	270	560	650	220	250	250	299	430	323	500	750	999
10	N/A	360	270	550	600	210	250	250	299	430	340	480	730	989
11	N/A	340	250	550	600	200	250	230	280	400	320	489	699	990
12	N/A	350	275	530	600	200	250	220	279	400	320	500	730	989
13	N/A	350	280	530	600	200	250	220	279	420	342	527	750	1000
14	N/A	370	280	530	600	202	250	220	279	420	313	540	750	1000
15	N/A	380	288	530	600	202	240	200	279	430	350	499	749	1000
16	N/A	380	288	530	620	202	240	200	270	430	350	499	750	1100
17	N/A	390	310	580	660	200	250	235	260	430	330	549	750	1230
18	N/A	390	310	580	700	200	250	240	290	450	330	540	829	1268
19	N/A	400	310	580	720	200	260	240	299	450	330	549	899	1380
20	N/A	440	310	600	720	200	290	240	299	520	330	620	1000	1350
21	N/A	440	350	590	730	250	290	260	299	520	351	620	950	1365
22	N/A	400	346	630	730	250	300	260	299	520	360	620	950	1365
23	N/A	440	346	630	730	250	300	260	340	520	360	630	950	1290
24	N/A	440	346	620	730	250	300	260	340	520	360	625	950	1290
25	N/A	440	346	610	730	250	300	260	349	550	360	630	950	1250
26	N/A	440	340	610	730	250	300	290	349	550	360	604	950	1260
27	N/A	440	340	630	730	250	300	290	349	570	360	640	950	1290
28	N/A	440	346	620	720	250	290	290	349	515	390	630	900	1250
29	N/A	449	350	620	710	250	290	290	349	500	390	636	990	1290
30	N/A	440	350	620	710	260	290	290	330	500	390	630	990	1290
31	N/A	440	350	620	670	260	290	290	330	500	380	599	990	1290
32	N/A	430	360	620	710	260	290	290	310	515	380	599	990	1290
33	N/A	430	360	600	710	260	290	290	349	490	400	599	980	1290
34	N/A	440	360	620	710	260	290	290	349	550	380	599	980	1270
35	N/A	430	360	600	700	260	304	290	350	550	380	599	900	1290
36	550	440	360	600	700	260	300	290	340	550	370	599	980	1250
37	550	440	350	600	700	250	304	290	340	570	370	599	980	1250
38	550	440	350	600	700	250	304	290	340	570	370	599	980	1250
39	500	400	360	600	700	250	298	290	340	570	330	599	920	1250
40	500	430	360	600	700	260	291	290	340	565	330	599	955	1250
41	500	430	360	600	700	250	290	290	339	560	330	560	900	1250
42	550	450	360	635	690	260	290	290	350	570	380	550	950	1250
43	500	470	370	650	720	260	310	299	359	650	420	755	1030	1290

Anyways, I wouldn't recommend one buy the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB, either. I'd personally pick the RX 9070 XT. Or the RX 9070 GRE, which is the only graphics card currently under its MSRP. It's $500 at Newegg with a discount code.

Generally, Radeon cards haven't seen meteoric price rises like their GeForce counterparts. That's not to say that prices haven't increased over the past year—they absolutely have—but they've seen a more measured swing. Perhaps that's because anyone looking for a more powerful GPU with lots of VRAM for local AI is likely to choose Nvidia over AMD, or the newer GDDR7 chips used in RTX 50-series cards have higher spot prices. Either way, we haven't seen runaway prices for AMD's cards as of yet.

Here are all the USD prices I've recorded from my latest search, with the MSRP and percentage increase (or in one case, decrease) noted:

Current graphics card prices (August 18) vs MSRP
Graphics card	MSRP	Best price (August 18)	Difference (%)
Arc B570 10 GB	$220.00	$259.99	+18.18%
5050 8 GB	$249.00	$299.00	+20.08%
Arc B580 12 GB	$249.00	$309.99	+24.49%
RTX 5060 8 GB	$299.00	$359.00	+20.07%
RX 9060 XT 8 GB	$299.00	$399.99	+33.78%
RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB	$379.00	$429.99	+13.45%
RX 9060 XT 16 GB	$349.00	$469.99	+34.67%
RX 9070 GRE 12 GB	$549.00	$499.99	-8.93%
RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB	$429.00	$779.99	+81.82%
RX 9070 16 GB	$549.00	$649.99	+18.40%
RX 9070 XT 16 GB	$599.00	$719.99	+20.20%
RTX 5070 12 GB	$549.00	$763.30	+39.03%
RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB	$749.00	$1,087.99	+45.26%
RTX 5080 16 GB	$999.00	$1,478.99	+48.05%
RTX 5090 32 GB	$1,999.00	$4,298.00	+115.01%

We've been tracking graphics card prices for exactly one year and it's never been worse than this

dave.james@futurenet.com (Dave James) — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:27:24 +0000

We first started tracking the prices of individual graphics cards on August 14, 2025, and since then we've checked on an almost weekly cadence (we've got to have holidays, y'know). And it's not been a pretty year.

In the interests of full disclosure, the methodology behind this data capture has been to have one editor spend an inordinate amount of their work day tracking down the cheapest available version of each of the current generation of GPUs from Nvidia, AMD, and yes, even Intel. They must be new in-box, so no refurbs or open box sales, and they must be from reputable sellers—no vendors on Amazon called sdfgwegggggwawfdasfsreqwwqeccccawef, in other words.

This data captures the very cheapest prices these GPUs were available for throughout the year, but what it doesn't capture is the average price, which has often been much higher. Sometimes there might be a good deal on a particular graphics card, while the rest of the market is significantly more expensive. But our idea was to capture what a reader could spend in a particular week to bag the GPU chipset they wanted. And we're carrying that on, with our weekly updates page always housing links to the cheapest cards we can find.

Back in August of last year, things weren't particularly pretty at all. There was a mix of low stock and high demand, which meant that graphics cards from all the various manufacturers were well over their respective MSRPs… and had been since launch. Every GPU launched in 2025 had one thing in common: There was little initial supply and the promised launch prices generally evaporated in a puff of corporate greed.

And that was all before the RAMpocalypse took hold.

Changes in minimum GPU chipset price over 12 months
GPU	August 14, 2025	August 14, 2026	Change ($)	Change (%)
Intel Arc B570	$230	$260	+$30	+13.0%
Nvidia RTX 5050	$250	$299	+$49	+19.6%
Intel Arc B580	$260	$310	+$50	+19.2%
AMD RX 9060 XT 8 GB	$280	$370	+$90	+32.1%
Nvidia RTX 5060	$300	$359	+$59	+19.7%
Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB	$368	$420	+$52	+14.1%
AMD RX 9060 XT 16 GB	$370	$470	+$100	+27.0%
Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB	$430	$650	+$220	+51.2%
Nvidia RTX 5070	$550	$755	+$205	+37.3%
AMD RX 9070	$600	$650	+$50	+8.3%
AMD RX 9070 XT	$700	$720	+$20	+2.9%
Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti	$780	$1030	+$250	+32.1%
Nvidia RTX 5080	$1100	$1290	+$190	+17.3%
Nvidia RTX 5090	$2400	$4400	+$2000	+83.3%

I am getting a lump in my throat as I write this—pretty much every GPU was available at or under its MSRP.

There was a beautifully innocent, AI ignorant moment in October, however, when—and I am getting a lump in my throat as I write this—pretty much every GPU except the RTX 5090 was available at or under its MSRP. We've never had it so good…

But then almost as soon as the Black Friday sales wrapped up at the end of November things went—and I hope you'll forgive the technical industry jargon here—utterly tits up.

The memory crisis started to bite into the GPU market, and graphics card prices started to rise back up again, starting with the RTX 5080, which then dragged up almost every GPU up the price ladder into the new year.

Lowest price per GPU

We've been measuring the lowest available price of each current-gen GPU since August 14, 2025.

Lowest pricing (Price, $)

Week

Lowest pricing Data
Timestamp (Week)	Nvidia RTX 5080 (Price, $)	Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti (Price, $)	AMD RX 9070 XT (Price, $)	AMD RX 9070 (Price, $)	Nvidia RTX 5070 (Price, $)	Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB (Price, $)	Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB (Price, $)	AMD RX 9060 XT 16 GB (Price, $)	AMD RX 9060 XT 8 GB (Price, $)	Nvidia RTX 5060 (Price, $)	Nvidia RTX 5050 (Price, $)	Intel Arc B580 (Price, $)	Intel Arc B570 (Price, $)	AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE (Price, $)
1	1100	780	700	600	550	430	368	370	280	300	250	260	230	N/A
2	1099	750	700	600	550	430	340	370	270	300	250	260	230	N/A
3	1000	750	700	550	524	430	370	370	280	291	250	250	230	N/A
4	1000	750	695	550	546	430	345	370	280	296	250	250	230	N/A
5	1000	749	670	600	481	430	340	350	270	300	250	250	230	N/A
6	929	749	670	600	499	379	340	350	270	289	240	250	230	N/A
7	999	750	650	550	520	430	350	350	270	299	240	250	230	N/A
8	980	749	650	550	500	430	342	350	270	299	250	250	200	N/A
9	999	750	650	560	500	430	323	350	270	299	250	250	220	N/A
10	989	730	600	550	480	430	340	360	270	299	250	250	210	N/A
11	990	699	600	550	489	400	320	340	250	280	230	250	200	N/A
12	989	730	600	530	500	400	320	350	275	279	220	250	200	N/A
13	1000	750	600	530	527	420	342	350	280	279	220	250	200	N/A
14	1000	750	600	530	540	420	313	370	280	279	220	250	202	N/A
15	1000	749	600	530	499	430	350	380	288	279	200	240	202	N/A
16	1100	750	620	530	499	430	350	380	288	270	200	240	202	N/A
17	1230	750	660	580	549	430	330	390	310	260	235	250	200	N/A
18	1268	829	700	580	540	450	330	390	310	290	240	250	200	N/A
19	1380	899	720	580	549	450	330	400	310	299	240	260	200	N/A
20	1350	1000	720	600	620	520	330	440	310	299	240	290	200	N/A
21	1365	950	730	590	620	520	351	440	350	299	260	290	250	N/A
22	1365	950	730	630	620	520	360	400	346	299	260	300	250	N/A
23	1290	950	730	630	630	520	360	440	346	340	260	300	250	N/A
24	1290	950	730	620	625	520	360	440	346	340	260	300	250	N/A
25	1250	950	730	610	630	550	360	440	346	349	260	300	250	N/A
26	1260	950	730	610	604	550	360	440	340	349	290	300	250	N/A
27	1290	950	730	630	640	570	360	440	340	349	290	300	250	N/A
28	1250	900	720	620	630	515	390	440	346	349	290	290	250	N/A
29	1290	990	710	620	636	500	390	449	350	349	290	290	250	N/A
30	1290	990	710	620	630	500	390	440	350	330	290	290	260	N/A
31	1290	990	670	620	599	500	380	440	350	330	290	290	260	N/A
32	1290	990	710	620	599	515	380	430	360	310	290	290	260	N/A
33	1290	980	710	600	599	490	400	430	360	349	290	290	260	N/A
34	1270	980	710	620	599	550	380	440	360	349	290	290	260	N/A
35	1290	900	700	600	599	550	380	430	360	350	290	304	260	N/A
36	1250	980	700	600	599	550	370	440	360	340	290	300	260	550
37	1250	980	700	600	599	570	370	440	350	340	290	304	250	550
38	1250	980	700	600	599	570	370	440	350	340	290	304	250	550
39	1250	920	700	600	599	570	330	400	360	340	290	298	250	500
40	1250	955	700	600	599	565	330	430	360	340	290	291	260	500
41	1250	900	700	600	560	560	330	430	360	339	290	290	250	500
42	1250	950	690	635	550	570	380	450	360	350	290	290	260	550
43	1290	1030	720	650	755	650	420	470	370	359	299	310	260	500

Thankfully we haven't experienced the same sort of exponential price growth that has blighted either the system memory or storage markets with graphics cards. Yes, the RTX 5090 has risen in price by 83% to $4,400, but everything else hit a plateau relatively quickly and we've been living in that new normal more or less happily for most of this year.

Okay, I say 'relatively happily' but the pricing for both the RTX 5080 and RTX 5070 Ti did hit levels that meant they could be more or less ignored by the general PC gaming populace who would never be able to countenance spending that much on a single component. And we did actually stop tracking the RTX 5090 when it hit $3,000 for that same reason: there was just no point recommending it.

And that relative stasis point for GPU pricing—there was individual fluctuation of GPUs, but little of significance—continued until, well, yesterday. I came back from a week away with the family to find Nvidia's mid-range graphics card market determined to wipe itself out. The RTX 5070 had been knocking around its $549 MSRP for a while, but all of a sudden that is over.

Tracking 12 and 16 GB graphics card pricing over 12 months

Boom, prices rocket up to $700, now $755, and largely $800 across the board. For a fourth-tier GPU that was barely an improvement over the RTX 4070 Super of the previous generation once you take out DLSS-related RTX Blackwell luxuries. The RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB card has followed it, like a rat up the ludicrous pricing drainpipe, dragging an increase of 51% up there with it.

So, we're now at a point where I'm recommending that PC Gamer readers do not buy any Nvidia RTX 50-series GPU with more than 8 GB of VRAM, simply because they've priced themselves out of any form of relevance for gamers. Thankfully, the AMD RDNA 4 cards are still priced almost sensibly, though there are hints that will soon change. But for now the 12 and 16 GB Navi 48-based cards—the RX 9070 GRE, RX 9070, and RX 9070 XT—are all priced under the level of the RTX 5070.

But we're still at a point where the top five Nvidia GeForce GPUs are priced at $650 or above and that makes me want to sick up a bit. Y'know, arching my back like a cat at the thought of an RTX 5060 Ti costing that much. Ack. Acccckhh.

(Image credit: Future)

And where do we go from here? I'll be continuing to track the pricing of graphics cards most weeks (43 out of 52 ain't bad) so we'll see when the Radeon price bump comes into effect in retail, and then we have to figure out if this generation of graphics cards is then best just left to the datacentres and AI sickos.

What happens to the next generation of GPUs? There's been the expectation of a Super refresh for the RTX Blackwell range, which can only really offer a bump in VRAM given the silicon limitations of each GPU, and then how do you price that? Here's an RTX 5080 Super, that'll be $1,499, thanks. RTX 5070 Ti Super, ma'am? Of course it has a stupid name, but we're still going to charge you $1,200.

Thank you sir, may I have another.

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The GPU price hike is here and you should avoid any Nvidia card with more than 8 GB VRAM, if you value your bank balance

dave.james@futurenet.com (Dave James) — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:16:09 +0000

The big Nvidia price hike has begun and I think we can quite categorically state that if money means anything to you, you should ignore every GeForce GPU with more than 8 GB of VRAM right now. That's not a comment on the need gamers might have for high levels of memory in their graphics cards, it's all about the price.

We've previously reported that Nvidia graphics cards were expected to jump in price by up to 30% after Taiwanese outlet, Electronic Daily News reported the rising costs of GPU bundles of chips and memory. That was at the end of July and it seems like already retailers are putting the prices of their current stocks of cards up.

The most egregious is the cost of the Nvidia RTX 5070 today. I updated our page, which has been tracking the lowest available price of every current-gen GPU chipset, just yesterday and noted that the mid-range GeForce graphics card has hopped up from an almost-MSRP of $550 last week to a ludicrous $700. But that $700 card is now out of stock and the cheapest RTX 5070 I've found today is $755, with most sitting around the $800 mark.

That's actually far higher than the original 30% prediction. Going from $550 to $755 is fully a 37% increase.

That's around $800 for a graphics card I gave a 61% score to because it was a smaller, weaker GPU than the RTX 4070 Super card it was meant to be replacing. At least the odd positioning of the RTX 5070 being cheaper than the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB card has been reversed, though that card itself is still a ludicrous $650.

As a PC gamer I honestly feel a bit like a lobster in a pot as the temperature is slowly rising in the water around me—powerless and in peril. These are not-great fourth- and fifth-tier GPUs going for what was absolutely top-end GeForce pricing not so long ago.

GPU price tracking

The minimum GPU chipset price tracked on an almost weekly cadence since August 14, 2025

Lowest pricing (Price, $)

Week

Lowest pricing Data
Timestamp (Week)	Nvidia RTX 5070 (Price, $)	Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB (Price, $)	AMD RX 9070 (Price, $)
1	550	430	600
2	550	430	600
3	524	430	550
4	546	430	550
5	481	430	600
6	499	379	600
7	520	430	550
8	500	430	550
9	500	430	560
10	480	430	550
11	489	400	550
12	500	400	530
13	527	420	530
14	540	420	530
15	499	430	530
16	499	430	530
17	549	430	580
18	540	450	580
19	549	450	580
20	620	520	600
21	620	520	590
22	620	520	630
23	630	520	630
24	625	520	620
25	630	550	610
26	604	550	610
27	640	570	630
28	630	515	620
29	636	500	620
30	630	500	620
31	599	500	620
32	599	515	620
33	599	490	600
34	599	550	620
35	599	550	600
36	599	550	600
37	599	570	600
38	599	570	600
39	599	570	600
40	599	565	600
41	560	560	600
42	550	570	635
43	755	650	650

The reasons for this pricing rise are manifold, but largely it boils down to AI is ruining all our fun. For one thing, datacentres are hoovering up as much memory as providers can manufacture, and that inevitably means there is an impact on other forms of memory supply, such as VRAM. But you're also getting the AI curious, or the AI enthusiasts looking at GPUs with a bunch of VRAM to start experimenting with local models. But whatever the reasons, the prices of these gaming GPUs have become unsustainable.

So please, please don't pay them.

Not when there are excellent alternatives out there for much less. I know we're expecting AMD cards to follow suit with their own price increases, but at least for now they are far better value, and the RDNA 4 architecture is genuinely good.

Upscaled gaming performance

Avg FPS

1% Low FPS

RX 9070 GRE | 12 GB

RX 9070 | 16 GB

111

RTX 5070 | 12 GB

107

RTX 5060 Ti | 16 GB

RX 9060 XT | 16 GB

Black Myth Wukong (1440p High + Upscaling (quality)) Data
Product	Value
RX 9070 GRE \| 12 GB	95 Avg FPS, 82 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 \| 16 GB	111 Avg FPS, 96 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 \| 12 GB	107 Avg FPS, 81 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 Ti \| 16 GB	86 Avg FPS, 72 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT \| 16 GB	78 Avg FPS, 69 1% Low FPS

Avg FPS

1% Low FPS

RX 9070 GRE | 12 GB

130

RX 9070 | 16 GB

149

102

RTX 5070 | 12 GB

122

RTX 5060 Ti | 16 GB

RX 9060 XT | 16 GB

102

Cyberpunk 2077 (1440p RT Ultra + upscaling (quality)) Data
Product	Value
RX 9070 GRE \| 12 GB	130 Avg FPS, 78 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 \| 16 GB	149 Avg FPS, 102 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 \| 12 GB	122 Avg FPS, 97 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 Ti \| 16 GB	96 Avg FPS, 79 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT \| 16 GB	102 Avg FPS, 73 1% Low FPS

Avg FPS

1% Low FPS

RX 9070 GRE | 12 GB

249

122

RX 9070 | 16 GB

261

114

RTX 5070 | 12 GB

176

113

RTX 5060 Ti | 16 GB

136

RX 9060 XT | 16 GB

190

113

F1 24 (1440p Ultra high +upscaling (Quality), 2x FG) Data
Product	Value
RX 9070 GRE \| 12 GB	249 Avg FPS, 122 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 \| 16 GB	261 Avg FPS, 114 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 \| 12 GB	176 Avg FPS, 113 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 Ti \| 16 GB	136 Avg FPS, 89 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT \| 16 GB	190 Avg FPS, 113 1% Low FPS

Avg FPS

1% Low FPS

RX 9070 GRE | 12 GB

115

RX 9070 | 16 GB

123

RTX 5070 | 12 GB

127

RTX 5060 Ti | 16 GB

118

RX 9060 XT | 16 GB

110

Homeworld 3 (1440p Epic + upscaling (quality)) Data
Product	Value
RX 9070 GRE \| 12 GB	115 Avg FPS, 63 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 \| 16 GB	123 Avg FPS, 64 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 \| 12 GB	127 Avg FPS, 63 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 Ti \| 16 GB	118 Avg FPS, 63 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT \| 16 GB	110 Avg FPS, 62 1% Low FPS

Avg FPS

1% Low FPS

RX 9070 GRE | 12 GB

164

RX 9070 | 16 GB

197

RTX 5070 | 12 GB

144

RTX 5060 Ti | 16 GB

115

RX 9060 XT | 16 GB

135

The Talos Principle 2 (1440p Ultra +upscaling (quality), 2x FG) Data
Product	Value
RX 9070 GRE \| 12 GB	164 Avg FPS, 60 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 \| 16 GB	197 Avg FPS, 90 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 \| 12 GB	144 Avg FPS, 65 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 Ti \| 16 GB	115 Avg FPS, 41 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT \| 16 GB	135 Avg FPS, 59 1% Low FPS

There are a couple of instances where, when using upscaling, the RX 9070 GRE takes a healthy lead in terms of frame rates over the RTX 5070.

The Radeon RX 9070 GRE, another 12 GB GPU, is available for $500 at Newegg today and will deliver gaming performance practically on par with the RTX 5070. Sometimes a bit lower, but still very, very competitive. Especially when FSR4 is brought to bear on supporting games. And the Radeon RX 9070 (our favorite GPU right now) is $650, the same price as the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB, has the same VRAM quotient, and absolutely slams it in our benchmarks.

These are dark times in the PC gaming hardware market, and for me the top five tiers of Nvidia graphics cards have now entirely priced themselves out of all proportion. I simply couldn't recommend any PC gamer who needs to keep track of what's in their bank account consider buying any one of them.

It is genuinely cheaper for me to fly to QuakeCon and buy a RTX 5090 at the Nvidia booth than pick up the GPU absolutely anywhere else

Jess Kinghorn — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:33:16 +0000

Take it from me, a gamer rocking the last-gen Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super and still loving life: your rig doesn't need the most bleeding edge graphics card. That's especially true when the 50-series cards can easily set you back many more smackers than Nvidia's MSRP. The RTX 5090 is especially bad for this right now, with the cheapest deal I can find anywhere online still being $4,500/£3,499.

The company appears all too aware of the runaway pricing of these GPUs. Case in point, Nvidia set up 'Verified Priority Access IRL' at its QuakeCon booth this year, offering attendees the chance to buy either the GeForce RTX 5090, RTX 5080, or RTX 5070 Founders Edition for MSRP "while supplies last".

Sadly, to get a decent deal on an RTX 5090 these days, flying out to Quakecon may actually not be the most outrageous idea. As I'm based in the UK, the cheapest round trip flight to Dallas, Texas I can find would cost me about $1,428. Add to that the RTX 5090's $1,999 MSRP, and the $16.50 price of admission to Quakecon, plus some no doubt hellish jet lag, and I will have only had to spend a little over $3,443 (or roughly £2,556) total on Nvidia's most powerful graphics card. That's ridiculous.

But let's say I actually carried out this still very expensive, hare-brained scheme. After a nearly 19-hour flight—with a self-transfer—I could rock up to Nvidia's booth only to find it sold out of RTX 5090s. The booth only has a limited amount of GPUs available for sale each day, after all.

That said, the booth is also offering a limited supply of "cool freebies," such as a pack of GeForce Trading Cards "showcasing 14 of GeForce’s greatest gaming moments." If I went to the Nvidia booth after a 19-hour flight, only to find these trading cards were left, I dread to think of the jet lag-induced rage monster I would become—rumours suggesting that Nvidia graphics card prices will increase by as much as 30% already have me howling.

(Image credit: Future)

Anyway, this late capitalist hell pit only gets better, because there's still another way to save on that MSRP. For one thing, Nvidia will be awarding a GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition GPU to the player that comes out top in its Quake III Arena RTX Remix and DOOM: The Dark Ages — Revelations challenges. Winners of the QuakeCon Mod Contest will also receive an RTX 50-Series GPU.

Uh, so yes, the tip here is either 'get good' or make a really cool rig if you'd rather not spend silly money on a 50-series graphics card. Or happen to live close by QuakeCon and chance a detour. If it's all the same to you, though, I won't be taking any of my own advice on how to get a more sensibly priced GPU.

EA has fixed a niche Battlefield 6 issue where some Nvidia GPUs were crashing while changing attachments or 'playing on maps with large bodies of water'

James Bentley — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:28:42 +0000

For some time now, Battlefield 6 players on Nvidia cards were running into a peculiar crash when changing attachments on the SOR-300SC carbine, using custom server search, or "playing on maps with large bodies of water". If you have run into such a problem, you will be happy to know that it should now be fixed.

As announced over on X, Battlefield 6 game update 1.4.1.5 is a "smaller quality-of-life update focused on improving reliability, presentation, and moment-to-moment gameplay"

The specific Nvidia crashes were such a problem that the Battlefield Comms X account put out a separate tweet declaring the fix. If you were unlucky enough to have been hit by the crashes, the fix is in the update that launched on Tuesday, August 4.

Unfortunately, this crash came at a terrible time, because the game just launched Tsuru Reef, which is both the biggest map in the game and a return to naval warfare for the series. A Top Gun crossover, there is a lot of water on the map, which you can imagine would be a problem when paired with crashes that are more common on maps with big bodies of water.

Interestingly, reports popped up with these specific crashes just after the previous Nvidia driver update went live, and Battlefield Comms recommended that users roll back to Nvidia driver version 596.49. The Battlefield X account said that RTX 50-series owners were particularly affected by the problem. This means that if you previously rolled back Nvidia drivers, you should now make sure your card is up-to-date.

Please note that crashing issues regarding NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs have been fixed for tomorrow's 1.4.1.5 update.If you would like to read more details on the changes for the upcoming update, please head over to the Update Notes here: https://t.co/jlFjn9ROTX https://t.co/t6FattrrXOAugust 3, 2026

As well as fixing this Nvidia crash problem, Battlefield Studios has reportedly improved deployment, aiming, water transition and vehicle behaviour, plus several "UI, loadout, and customisation issues" have now been fixed.

The latest update also has a focus on map and Portal polish, addressing visual, collection, interaction, and audio issues across multiple maps plus through Portal, the community creation function.

Here's hoping the next Nvidia driver doesn't pose another problem for the game.

I tried the 'stress test your GPU hopes you never run' and it made my main gaming rig look like a chump

James Bentley — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:28:54 +0000

It might sound like a cruel joke in a time where memory is costing hundreds of dollars more than it used to, and GPUs are getting price hikes, but there's a new bit of software called Nukemark that is designed to bring even the best graphics cards to their absolute limits.

Nukemark is based in Unreal Engine 5.7 with Nanite, MegaLights, and its Lumen hardware ray tracing going as hard as they can with up to 8K virtual textures. The RTX 5090 reportedly only gets 15-20 average fps at native resolution, and developer Ezbench seems proud of that.

Even the trailer on the Steam page calls it the "stress test your GPU hopes you never run". Not one to back down to trailer marketing, I've decided to boot it up on my humble rig and put it through its paces.

My rig is equipped with an RTX 4070 Super, matched with an AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D, and 32 GB of DDR5. It's no slouch in the gaming department, and I rarely have problems running new games on it. I can often play games natively without upscaling or frame generation and get a solid experience. At 1440p, both of Nukemark's tests looked like a slideshow. You can see my results below.

Nukemark results with an RTX 4070 Super
	1080p	1440p	1080p (DLSS)	1440p (DLSS)
Pandora average fps (Test 1)	23	13	22	6
Emberhold average fps (Test 2)	19	12	18	5

Weirdly, the DLSS option seemed to make the tests perform worse, and I'm not too sure why. It could be some sort of bottleneck in my specific rig, or merely a software issue. Nukemark is an early access piece of software, which is expected to take 12-18 months to launch fully, so some hitches are perhaps to be expected.

I couldn't test the game at 4K as my max resolution at home is 1440p, but none of the tests ended with a result I would call 'playable'. In the best-case scenario (1080p on Pandora), an average of 23 fps looked so choppy that, if it were a game, I'd be asking for a refund already.

(Image credit: Ezbench)

I suspect that when Nukemark says the RTX 5090 "sustains only approximately 15–20 FPS at native resolution", that native resolution is 4K. The two tests are full of the kinds of braggadocious visuals you would expect from stress-testing software. Emberhold, in particular, is drenched in lighting from magic, lava, and good 'ol ambience. It is littered with reflectable surfaces and fire. And, importantly, you are unlikely to get a 'playable' fps out of anything but the cream of the crop hardware right now.

So what's the point in Nukemark? Well, Ezbench Solutions says it's for system builders, overclockers, and gamers, but my gut says it's more for ego and for the curious. Nukemark rightly claims "Every scene is built to overload today's fastest GPUs" and it is "intentionally engineered to exceed the performance budgets of modern games."

So, in a sense, I suspect it will make for a better benchmark in the future. When some lucky gamer with far too much disposable income gets themselves an RTX 6090 and the 8 GB of memory they can afford from the leftover budget, they could be throwing it at Nukemark just to prove how powerful the next generation of cards is. My humble RTX 4070 Super and I, though, are just fine running the current crop of modern games at around 60 fps.

First AMD RX 9050 8 GB review suggests RTX 3060-like performance but with some strange spec discrepancies

James Bentley — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:01:47 +0000

I'm likely not the first to tell you that the memory crisis has really done a number on PC gaming, but nothing quite exemplifies this like AMD releasing a graphics card with 4-8 GB of VRAM in 2026. That card is called the RX 9050; it starts at $279, and it is limited to certain regions. One early review suggests performance isn't great, but its specs are looking a little funky.

That review is from Japanese hardware outlet Hermitage Akihabara, which managed to get its hands on an 8 GB-toting ASRock model. Testing the card in 3DMark, Hermitage argues it "falls short of the 30fps generally considered the benchmark for comfortable single-player gameplay. Furthermore, its performance is only about 75% of that of its competitor, the GeForce RTX 5050, and just over 60% compared to the higher-end Radeon RX 9060 XT" (machine translated).

The RX 9050 doesn't lag behind the RTX 5050 in absolutely all tests, though. The RX 9050 matches the RTX 5050 in 4K testing on Rainbow Six Siege X, and it performed better in Doom Eternal at 1080p and 1440p, though this was with the help of FSR, which is not an apples-to-apples comparison. Still, the RTX 5050 wipes the floor with the RX 9050 in pretty much every other test conducted by Hermitage.

At 1080p, Hermitage saw 192.4 average fps in Apex Legends, and 147 average fps on the 9050. In Cyberpunk, on Ultra, Hermitage saw an average of 142 fps on the AMD card and 240 fps on the Nvidia card. In fairness to AMD, though, this is with both cards using the frame generation and upscaling models of their respective cards, so not a 1-1 comparison.

With the RTX 5050, and its 8 GB of GDDR6 VRAM, launching at $250, that means that the RX 9050, according to these tests, is substantially slower than the Nvidia card. Of course, that's assuming you can get one at MSRP, but we can't assume you will find AMD cards at MSRP either.

RX 9050 8GB review just droppedPerf didn't match with 5050, but seems 3060 https://t.co/R9lMldtg8E pic.twitter.com/CrRoJ0hYeMJuly 31, 2026

The RX 9050's score of 4531 in 3D Mark's Port Royal and 1873 in Speed Way places the RX 9050 close to the RTX 3070, as noted by hardware analyst Harukaze5719. They also note a specs page with 32 ROPs on the card, which is half of the advertised 64 on AMD's own specs page. Fewer ROPs, or Render Output Units, in a card means worse performance, and that would be reflected in tests.

We saw a similar problem with eight missing ROPs in some RTX 50-series cards around their launch, which Nvidia claims only affected 0.5% of cards. If this s a defect in the tested card, one might expect better real-life performance.

(Image credit: Future)

That's assuming those ROPs are actually missing and it's not a defect in the software reporting itself, or some other problem in between. That's all to say that while early figures for AMD's latest budget card aren't looking very good, we'll have to wait for some more real-world testing from other outlets to see if it actually is so thoroughly outpaced by the RTX 5050.

Either way, early signs aren't looking great for the budget card market. That's especially true when you consider the AMD price increase rumours that dropped just today.

AMD is reportedly raising graphics card prices—it was just waiting for Nvidia to do it first

James Bentley — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:30:51 +0000

Earlier this month, we noted that AMD was reportedly bumping the price of its GPU and VRAM bundles for its partners. Now it seems like that bump will be at least 10%.

That is according to industry analyst Harukaze5719, who has shared a report stating as such, claiming "information confirmed by AMD's internal supply chain". The report claims AMD finalised plans to increase the supply price of GPU and VRAM bundles but did not yet commit to it due to a "weak recovery phase in the consumer graphics card market, high price sensitivity at the end-user level, existing inventory still needing to be digested, and the fact that NV (Nvidia) series graphics card prices have not yet increased." (machine translated).

As you might be able to guess from that wording, Nvidia just yesterday reportedly implemented its own price bump, going as high as an extra 30%. Apparently AMD will implement a price increase of "at least 10%, and all brands will officially implement the price increase uniformly starting next month. At that time, the price positioning is expected to be similar to that of NV series graphics cards."

One thing worth noting here is that a price increase to partners does not necessarily mean that the same price increase will be passed to the consumer. However, if other partners follow suit, there's little reason for companies to eat the cost themselves. Especially given AIB partners' margins are apparently quite slim.

And though the price increase will not affect the base cost of cards that partners already have access to, a price increase might make them less likely to get rid of their inventory at their current price point. As noted in our Nvidia story, some Nvidia partners are in a "state of panic, reluctant to sell."

pic.twitter.com/J29bGNsYjfJuly 31, 2026

If you're wondering why AMD and Nvidia are in a state where they feel they have to raise prices, you can blame AI for that one. AI and the vast amount of data it needs for training are sucking up all of the memory, and taking components like SSDs and GPUs with it. And this is a shame, as graphics cards have been relatively stable in pricing for the past few months, according to our tracker of the best graphics cards deals.

Unfortunately, the worst news here is that the memory crisis is unlikely to end soon. Just yesterday, Samsung claimed in its earnings call that "the supply constraints are expected to become even more severe in 2027 than 2026, reinforcing our view that the supply shortage will persist through 2028. Beyond 2029, it is hard to say because of more limited visibility."

So, it's currently a bad time to build a PC, and it seems likely it will become even worse, and we don't know when things will get better. That's the unfortunate reality of the memory crisis.

The memory crisis keeps getting worse: Nvidia graphics card prices now rumoured to increase by as much as 30%

James Bentley — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:44:00 +0000

Despite the memory crisis continuing to rage, Nvidia graphics card prices have been relatively stable over the last 20 or so weeks, until Nvidia appeared to have raised the price of GPU kits for AIB partners last week. Now, it seems like that price increase is up to 30%.

This is according to the Taiwanese outlet, Economic Daily News, which claims Nvidia is raising the prices of its GPU bundles (the GPU and memory) by between 20–30%. This is set to affect both GDDR6 and GDDR7. The report claims that graphics card distributors in China are in a "state of panic, reluctant to sell".

Industry analyst Harukaze5719 places the price of the Chinese market exclusive RTX 5090 D at $3,843 and the RTX 5080 at $1,845, the latter just short of the MSRP of the RTX 5090 at launch. The RTX 5090 was already suggested to have received a price increase back in May, so, if proven true, this would be the third Nvidia price increase this year.

Naturally, Nvidia raising the prices of the components doesn't mean partners have to follow suit, but it's very unlikely they will eat that extra cost. If a graphics card partner can match that price increase and still sell the cards, it will.

A major problem with the graphics card market right now is the cost of VRAM to go inside the card. With the memory crisis ongoing, prices have only gone up, and chips are becoming harder to purchase. That's likely some of the rationale behind AMD launching a 4 GB RX 9050 this week. And why the likes of memory manufacturers SK hynix and Samsung have just reported record profits.

Recent NVIDIA GeForce GPU price increase summary pic.twitter.com/TiYMM8ZGwKJuly 30, 2026

There were rumours late last year that Nvidia might stop bundling VRAM with GPUs, but that only really solves the problem for Nvidia. Partners would still have to source their own memory, which could be a problem for more budget-oriented cards and less well-known partners.

Graphics cards are already in a pretty ugly place. We round up the best graphics cards deals every week, and the best RTX 5090 deal currently sits at $4,200 over at Walmart, with the best price for a RTX 5080 being $1,250 at Amazon.

With the memory crisis not expected to end until at least 2029, it seems like it will only get harder and more expensive to build that gaming PC you've been pining after.

AMD launches the RX 9050, and it's even more entry-level than expected - update: it's $279 and limited to certain regions

Jacob Ridley — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:07:53 +0000

AMD has launched a new graphics card, the RX 9050. This is an entry-level graphics card with a slim provision of cores and VRAM, more of a match for the 890M than the RX 9060. It's even more entry-level than initial rumours suggested, and while you'd hope for a great price to match, we're not getting our hopes up yet.

Take a look at the specifications below, right from AMD's website, and you'll get an idea of the card. It's using the same Navi 44 GPU as the more capable entry-level and mid-range graphics cards, but it's been trimmed down to within an inch of its life. At 1,024 cores, it is actually a match for the 890M GPU found in Strix Point mobile chips, though it does have the big benefit of a desktop power budget, even if only 92 watts; RDNA 4 architecture, and 32 MB of Infinity Cache.

RX 9050 specs
	RX 9050	RX 9060
GPU	Navi 44	Navi 44
Architecture	RDNA 4	RDNA 4
Compute Units (CUs)	16	28
Cores	1024	1792
Boost clock	2600	2990
Game clock	1920	2400
ROPs	64	64
Ray Accelerators	16	28
AI Accelerators	32	56
FP32 TFLOPs	10.6	21.4
Transistors	29.7	29.7
Memory capacity (GB)	8/4*	8
Memory speed (Gbps)	18	18
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6
Memory interface	128-bit	128-bit
Memory bandwidth (GB/s)	288	288
Infinity Cache (MB)	32	32
Typical Board Power (W)	92	132
Minimum PSU (W)	450	450
	*not confirmed

Compared to previous rumours, which my colleague Jacob Fox called "quite strange" when we published a story about them in May, it's a lot less capable than expected. Look to the TFLOPs for a more holistic view of what's going on, and the RX 9050 is actually rated to half the performance of the RX 9060. Bear in mind, TFLOPs does not directly correlate to game performance, but it's a general idea of what to expect.

It's tough to judge a graphics card without knowing the price. ASRock is the only partner to announce availability for the RX 9050, launching its own RX 9050 Challenger 8 GB card. There's no clear price for the card yet and it's set to launch only in LATAM and Asia Pacific.

The card may end up being more OEM-only elsewhere. The RX 9060 is OEM-only. Only Best Buy has the card for sale so far, inside a CyberPower gaming PC for $890. This includes an RX 9050 4 GB among its shoestring specification.

Yeah, 4 GB.

What's that about? The AMD website only lists an 8 GB model, though that listing is only talking about a "Max Memory Size" of 8 GB, while earlier rumours had suggested a 4 GB model would be part of the range. ASRock also only talks about an 8 GB model.

(Image credit: AMD)

So is this CyberPower listing incorrect? I'd love to think so, but it may well be the case that there's an even slimmer 4 GB model for OEMs. If that's the case, it's no surprise then that AMD isn't shouting about it to the world. That's a pitiful amount of memory for 2026—AMD actually rallied against 4 GB cards back in 2022.

"Competitive products at a similar entry level price-point are offering up to a maximum of 4GB of VRAM, which is evidently not enough for today's games," AMD said in a blog post. "Go Beyond 4GB of Video Memory to Crank Up your settings. Play on Radeon RX Series GPUs with 6GB or 8GB of VRAM and enjoy gaming at Max settings."

Let's just hope this 4 GB thing is a typo and any plans to release such a card have been brushed aside.

With the RDNA 4 architecture under the hood, the RX 9060 will at least have some benefits over older cards. The full FSR Redstone feature set is supported by RDNA 4, including Frame Generation and Ray Regeneration. Though we tend to find frame generation works best when the card is able to deliver a good amount of frames to begin with, which this card may struggle to do in the latest games. At least FSR 4 is natively supported, including FP8. This card might need it.

Update

AMD has sent over the following information regarding the new card, including the price and availability for the card.

The driver also includes support for the new AMD Radeon™ RX 9050 graphics card, which expands the Radeon™ RX 9000 Series portfolio with an affordable option that brings the latest AMD RDNA™ 4 gaming technologies to mainstream gamers in the APJ and Latin American markets at a SEP of $279 USD.

The Radeon RX 9050 is designed for responsive gameplay at 1080p in popular esports and modern AAA titles. This highly efficient, drop-in upgrade features a 92W TBP and fully supports the latest AMD FSR Technologies, next-gen raytracing, and high-quality AV1 video streaming.

Radeon RX 9050 key specs:

Architecture: AMD RDNA 4

Compute Units: 16

VRAM: 8GB GDDR6

Game Clock / Boost Clock: 1.92 GHz / Up to 2.60 GHz

TBP: 92W

To learn more about the Radeon RX 9050 GPU, and the Radeon RX 9000 Series graphics cards, click here.

I've not tested the card but I'd take a guess as to say that's a steep price tag for the expected performance. Especially compared to the Arc B570/B580 and GeForce RTX 5050. The RTX 5050 comes with 33% fewer cores than the RTX 5060, whereas the RX 9050 has 42% fewer cores to the RX 9060. It's half that of an RX 9060 XT—it's not half price, though.

This info also suggests it's not ASRock that's limiting this card to Asia Pacific and Latin America. AMD is doing the same.

There's also news on whether there's a 4 GB version. Hassan Mujtaba from WCCFTech says on X that they spoke to AMD and confirmed the 4 GB version is real and OEM-only. There are no plans to sell it outside of OEM systems.

After months of surprising stability in graphics card prices, apparently Nvidia is now raising the cost of its GPU kits for AIB partners

Jacob Fox — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:34:33 +0000

It seems we can't catch a break lately when it comes to PC gaming hardware. All thanks to the global memory shortage, of course. Now, according to information Benchlife claims to have received, Nvidia is raising prices for its GDDR6 as well as GDDR7 GPU kits.

That means the RTX 5050 and some RTX 40-series cards (using GDDR6) might not be safe from the hikes, in addition to the rest of the RTX 50-series (using GDDR7). Though there's no mention over whether any pricing changes would hit all regions.

Benchlife says prices were already raised for the RTX 5090 (and its China variant) in May, which fits with what we heard at the time. This recent adjustment is for other GeForce products.

Assuming the information is correct, it will mean AIB partners—the companies you buy non-Founders cards from—will now have to pay Nvidia more for the respective kits which come with both GPU and memory.

It's not the wildest speculation to say that such price increases will be due to rising memory costs. No one—not even Nvidia, and certainly not its AIB partners—is immune from it. Memory is just in such astronomically high demand thanks to the AI boom.

In fact, on this point a source reportedly told VideoCardz that high 3 GB GDDR7 pricing has made Nvidia put its 50-series Super cards on hold. Originally we were expecting those late this year, or perhaps early next year, but apparently the high cost for the memory has put a big pin in that.

As you can see from the below chart outlining the GPU prices we've been tracking, prices have actually been pretty stable for the past few months. But it sounds like there's a chance this could change before long.

Lowest price per GPU

Lowest pricing (Price, $)

Week

Lowest pricing Data
Timestamp (Week)	Nvidia RTX 5080 (Price, $)	Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti (Price, $)	AMD RX 9070 XT (Price, $)	AMD RX 9070 (Price, $)	Nvidia RTX 5070 (Price, $)	Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB (Price, $)	Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB (Price, $)	AMD RX 9060 XT 16 GB (Price, $)	AMD RX 9060 XT 8 GB (Price, $)	Nvidia RTX 5060 (Price, $)	Nvidia RTX 5050 (Price, $)	Intel Arc B580 (Price, $)	Intel Arc B570 (Price, $)	AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE (Price, $)
1	1100	780	700	600	550	430	368	370	280	300	250	260	230	N/A
2	1099	750	700	600	550	430	340	370	270	300	250	260	230	N/A
3	1000	750	700	550	524	430	370	370	280	291	250	250	230	N/A
4	1000	750	695	550	546	430	345	370	280	296	250	250	230	N/A
5	1000	749	670	600	481	430	340	350	270	300	250	250	230	N/A
6	929	749	670	600	499	379	340	350	270	289	240	250	230	N/A
7	999	750	650	550	520	430	350	350	270	299	240	250	230	N/A
8	980	749	650	550	500	430	342	350	270	299	250	250	200	N/A
9	999	750	650	560	500	430	323	350	270	299	250	250	220	N/A
10	989	730	600	550	480	430	340	360	270	299	250	250	210	N/A
11	990	699	600	550	489	400	320	340	250	280	230	250	200	N/A
12	989	730	600	530	500	400	320	350	275	279	220	250	200	N/A
13	1000	750	600	530	527	420	342	350	280	279	220	250	200	N/A
14	1000	750	600	530	540	420	313	370	280	279	220	250	202	N/A
15	1000	749	600	530	499	430	350	380	288	279	200	240	202	N/A
16	1100	750	620	530	499	430	350	380	288	270	200	240	202	N/A
17	1230	750	660	580	549	430	330	390	310	260	235	250	200	N/A
18	1268	829	700	580	540	450	330	390	310	290	240	250	200	N/A
19	1380	899	720	580	549	450	330	400	310	299	240	260	200	N/A
20	1350	1000	720	600	620	520	330	440	310	299	240	290	200	N/A
21	1365	950	730	590	620	520	351	440	350	299	260	290	250	N/A
22	1365	950	730	630	620	520	360	400	346	299	260	300	250	N/A
23	1290	950	730	630	630	520	360	440	346	340	260	300	250	N/A
24	1290	950	730	620	625	520	360	440	346	340	260	300	250	N/A
25	1250	950	730	610	630	550	360	440	346	349	260	300	250	N/A
26	1260	950	730	610	604	550	360	440	340	349	290	300	250	N/A
27	1290	950	730	630	640	570	360	440	340	349	290	300	250	N/A
28	1250	900	720	620	630	515	390	440	346	349	290	290	250	N/A
29	1290	990	710	620	636	500	390	449	350	349	290	290	250	N/A
30	1290	990	710	620	630	500	390	440	350	330	290	290	260	N/A
31	1290	990	670	620	599	500	380	440	350	330	290	290	260	N/A
32	1290	990	710	620	599	515	380	430	360	310	290	290	260	N/A
33	1290	980	710	600	599	490	400	430	360	349	290	290	260	N/A
34	1270	980	710	620	599	550	380	440	360	349	290	290	260	N/A
35	1290	900	700	600	599	550	380	430	360	350	290	304	260	N/A
36	1250	980	700	600	599	550	370	440	360	340	290	300	260	550
37	1250	980	700	600	599	570	370	440	350	340	290	304	250	550
38	1250	980	700	600	599	570	370	440	350	340	290	304	250	550
39	1250	920	700	600	599	570	330	400	360	340	290	298	250	500
40	1250	955	700	600	599	565	330	430	360	340	290	291	260	500
41	1250	900	700	600	560	560	330	430	360	339	290	290	250	500

We've been measuring the lowest available price of each current-gen GPU since August 14, 2025.

As with much in this interrelated industry, it's difficult to say when things like price increases for AIBs will start to show in the consumer market. These AIBs might have some back-stock to get through and they might be able to eat some of the price increase themselves to keep stocks low.

Although it's worth noting that might not be possible, given warnings we've already heard AIBs give about slim margins—such is the reason EVGA gave for it leaving the GPU market, and that was way before the memory crisis.

It's often not smart to have too much back-stock, anyway, as the market tends towards being very 'lean' with 'just-in-time' manufacturing and sales. If you sit on too much stock it could end up going to waste and then you've lost money. Having a lean inventory of stock is how even big memory makers operate, according to a supply chain expert I interviewed back in May.

(Image credit: Future)

For companies more towards the end of the supply chain like AIB partners, this means they'll likely have to raise prices for their customers (us) before long too. We've just seen Framework, for instance, say that it's going to have to do just this because one of its suppliers has raised its prices for memory "far beyond anything we had predicted".

Nvidia will probably have a better time of it, of course, with much bigger contracts and more ability to weather the storm. But if the GPU kit price increase info is correct, it seems that storm might be taking a toll.

Redditor uses 'ticking time bomb' vial of gallium to stop their GPU sagging

Jessica Kinghorn — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:38:52 +0000

Behold, Anti-sag temperature indicator and ticking time bomb
from r/pcmasterrace

For a nervy PC Gamer such as myself, cracking open your gaming rig for even a spot of light dust busting can feel like you're flirting with danger. Well, one Redditor has decided to laugh in the face of danger by using a tube of gallium to stop their GPU from sagging.

Philip_777 shared their unusual anti-sagging intervention, describing it as both a "temperature indicator and ticking time bomb." For those a little unclear on why this is such a bad idea, allow me to share some of my recent education on the subject.

Gallium has a super low melting point, meaning that it will revert to liquid form if you attempt to hold it in the palm of your hand. Apparently, gallium can also 'eat' other metals, like aluminium. In other words, a gallium leak inside of your PC would be a very bad, no good time.

Philip_777 has taken some precautions by confining the gallium in what I'm hoping is a sturdy plastic vial. They write in a follow up comment, "It shouldn't become brittle or anything. I think it was HDPE [High-density polyethylene]. Still one of those moments where you know it's safe, but there's still a chance for it to go south somehow."

Obviously, if you want to avoid GPU sag there are other options besides risking an embrittling gallium leak inside of your PC. Should simply installing your GPU in a vertical position not be an option, GPU brackets of all shapes and sizes are not hard to find.

Besides a funny Reddit post, Philip_777 explains why they elected to dance with death instead, writing, "It was the only thing I found that had almost the perfect height. And since then I haven't bought one of those fancy anti-sag brackets."

To be fair to the Redditor, some GPU support brackets like this one with a screen from Zalman are needlessly extra (and pricey as a result). But I also just found this adjustable GPU support device for a fiver on Amazon. Alternatively, you could 3D print one of your faves to hold up your graphics card (like Goku about to drop a Spirit Bomb). I suppose there's no accounting for taste (says the girl who would absolutely love to have Miku Hatsune holding up her rig's GPU).

If you're looking for ideas on how to mod your RTX 4060, maybe remove its fans and slap a ridiculously big heatsink on it like this person did

Jacob Fox — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:54:17 +0000

There are many things that I would do to my graphics card—undervolt it, treasure it, sing it lullabies—but I probably wouldn't slap a gigantic heatsink on it just to eliminate the fan. Don't get me wrong, passive cooling is nice, but I'm glad I don't have to DIY it myself, creating the monstrosity I've just seen over on Chinese video platform Bilibili (check the top comment).

The mod, re-posted by FanlessTech and reported by Videocardz, is slapped on top of an RTX 4060 GPU, and according to Google's machine translation you can message the Bilibili user for the schematic if you so wish.

Nice passive GPU project https://t.co/bugtxJi14j pic.twitter.com/X91gredDVyJuly 20, 2026

Judging by a photo of the parts sitting on some scales, the heatsink weighs 2.56 kg (5.64 lbs), which makes sense considering it absolutely dwarfs the RTX 4060 PCB it's fitted to.

You're not looking at your usual GPU heatsink here, as these are some ginormous riveted fins that are very spread apart. The DIYer has the Frankenstein card socketed into a dinky little motherboard next to some RAM and another fanless cooler for the CPU. It makes quite the peculiar scene.

If there were ever a relatively recent GPU to give the fanless treatment, it would be the RTX 4060. It has just a 115 W TDP. The RTX 5060, for context, has a TDP of 145 W, and the RTX 5090 (just for funsies) has a TDP of 575 W.

You'll want a low TDP for a fanless design because, as good as they can be, they won't be as good as active cooling at keeping temps low. They also won't save you much power, as it only takes a handful of watts to power some GPU fans. They will, however, be quieter, and that's the reason you'd go for it.

I'm just not sure that's worth the whopping space trade-off, here. Still, a cool project.

This is the cheapest Nvidia's RTX 5070 has been all year... and [whisper] there's actually a deal on the RTX 5070 Ti, too

dave.james@futurenet.com (Dave James) — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:39:58 +0000

RTX 5070 | 12 GB: was $629 now $560
Although the RTX 5070 is a good deal faster than its predecessor, the RTX 4070, it's less of an upgrade compared to the RTX 4070 Super. DLSS 4.5 just about tips the balance in favor of the newer model, and it's now about the cheapest it's been all year right now.

Key specs: 6144 shaders | 2542 MHz boost | 12 GB GDDR7

RTX 5070 price check: Amazon $629.99 | Newegg $599.99 | Best Buy $629.99 View Deal

It's fair to say that I gave the RTX 5070 a bit of a slapping when I first reviewed it. That is mostly because of the bruising it faced at the hands of the AMD RX 9000-series cards that were released around it. They traded hard on price, undercutting and outperforming the mid-range RTX Blackwell card.

But I know there are still folk out there who would absolutely rather put their money down on an Nvidia GPU than take what they see as a risk on AMD Radeon silicon. And in the mid-range, ~$500 market (yes, I am aware of just how much it sucks that we're referring to $500 as 'mid-range'), the RTX 5070 is your best bet for a GeForce graphics card, especially now that Walmart is selling a PNY RTX 5070 for $560.

That's the cheapest we've seen this GPU selling for since the turn of the year. Remember those pre-2026 times when graphics cards actually dropped below MSRP? I know, it all seems like a long time ago now, doesn't it? At $560, you're only $10 above the original MSRP for this card and, interestingly, that also makes it the same price as the cheapest RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB I've found today, too.

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It's actually rather crowded in this $500-$600 segment, with no fewer than four cards vying for your cash. You have the RX 9070 GRE at the bottom and the RX 9070 at the top, with the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB and RTX 5070 sitting in between them. On the whole, the RTX 5070 outperforms the cheaper RX 9070 GRE, but comes in behind the straight RX 9070.

And I don't know what business the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB has being priced in the same bracket apart from its VRAM credentials.

1 / 3

1080p gaming performance

Avg FPS

1% Low FPS

RX 9070 GRE | 12 GB

RX 9070 | 16 GB

103

RTX 5070 | 12 GB

RTX 5060 Ti | 16 GB

RX 9060 XT | 16 GB

Black Myth Wukong (1080p High) Data
Product	Value
RX 9070 GRE \| 12 GB	90 Avg FPS, 78 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 \| 16 GB	103 Avg FPS, 89 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 \| 12 GB	95 Avg FPS, 82 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 Ti \| 16 GB	75 Avg FPS, 65 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT \| 16 GB	73 Avg FPS, 63 1% Low FPS

Avg FPS

1% Low FPS

RX 9070 GRE | 12 GB

RX 9070 | 16 GB

RTX 5070 | 12 GB

RTX 5060 Ti | 16 GB

RX 9060 XT | 16 GB

Cyberpunk 2077 (1080p RT Ultra) Data
Product	Value
RX 9070 GRE \| 12 GB	63 Avg FPS, 52 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 \| 16 GB	70 Avg FPS, 58 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 \| 12 GB	72 Avg FPS, 56 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 Ti \| 16 GB	51 Avg FPS, 41 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT \| 16 GB	49 Avg FPS, 39 1% Low FPS

Avg FPS

1% Low FPS

RX 9070 GRE | 12 GB

123

RX 9070 | 16 GB

138

108

RTX 5070 | 12 GB

123

RTX 5060 Ti | 16 GB

RX 9060 XT | 16 GB

F1 24 (1080p Ultra high) Data
Product	Value
RX 9070 GRE \| 12 GB	123 Avg FPS, 89 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 \| 16 GB	138 Avg FPS, 108 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 \| 12 GB	123 Avg FPS, 96 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 Ti \| 16 GB	90 Avg FPS, 71 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT \| 16 GB	95 Avg FPS, 61 1% Low FPS

Avg FPS

1% Low FPS

RX 9070 GRE | 12 GB

123

RX 9070 | 16 GB

125

RTX 5070 | 12 GB

125

RTX 5060 Ti | 16 GB

117

RX 9060 XT | 16 GB

106

Homeworld 3 (1080p Epic) Data
Product	Value
RX 9070 GRE \| 12 GB	123 Avg FPS, 65 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 \| 16 GB	125 Avg FPS, 62 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 \| 12 GB	125 Avg FPS, 64 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 Ti \| 16 GB	117 Avg FPS, 65 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT \| 16 GB	106 Avg FPS, 65 1% Low FPS

Avg FPS

1% Low FPS

RX 9070 GRE | 12 GB

124

RX 9070 | 16 GB

143

RTX 5070 | 12 GB

139

RTX 5060 Ti | 16 GB

RX 9060 XT | 16 GB

Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition (1080p Ultra) Data
Product	Value
RX 9070 GRE \| 12 GB	124 Avg FPS, 80 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 \| 16 GB	143 Avg FPS, 76 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 \| 12 GB	139 Avg FPS, 88 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 Ti \| 16 GB	98 Avg FPS, 42 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT \| 16 GB	96 Avg FPS, 42 1% Low FPS

Avg FPS

1% Low FPS

RX 9070 GRE | 12 GB

RX 9070 | 16 GB

106

RTX 5070 | 12 GB

RTX 5060 Ti | 16 GB

RX 9060 XT | 16 GB

The Talos Principle 2 (1080p Ultra) Data
Product	Value
RX 9070 GRE \| 12 GB	92 Avg FPS, 49 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 \| 16 GB	106 Avg FPS, 74 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 \| 12 GB	92 Avg FPS, 57 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 Ti \| 16 GB	75 Avg FPS, 41 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT \| 16 GB	73 Avg FPS, 37 1% Low FPS

Avg FPS

1% Low FPS

RX 9070 GRE | 12 GB

102

RX 9070 | 16 GB

112

RTX 5070 | 12 GB

104

RTX 5060 Ti | 16 GB

RX 9060 XT | 16 GB

Total War: Warhammer 3 (1080p Ultra) Data
Product	Value
RX 9070 GRE \| 12 GB	102 Avg FPS, 46 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 \| 16 GB	112 Avg FPS, 41 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 \| 12 GB	104 Avg FPS, 53 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 Ti \| 16 GB	83 Avg FPS, 54 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT \| 16 GB	94 Avg FPS, 72 1% Low FPS

The cheaper RX 9070 GRE is getting very close to the 1080p performance of the RX 9070, and it's practically a tie with the pricier Nvidia RTX 5070.

So, yeah, the RTX 5070 is actually a good deal right now, especially if you either don't want to spend the extra on the RX 9070 or you have an unreasoned antipathy towards Radeon GPUs.

But if you do want more performance and are willing to spend the monies, there's another Nvidia GPU that's had a big price cut this week... although not enough to get it anywhere near its original MSRP. The RTX 5070 Ti again hasn't been cheaper than this all year, with this MSI version going for $900 at Newegg right now.

RTX 5070 Ti | 16 GB: was $989.99 now $899.99
At its $749 MSRP, the RTX 5070 Ti is an expensive but superb graphics card. Alas, while it's still very good, prices have risen to ridiculous levels, and overall stock levels aren't great either. This 'offer' is the best one of them all, but it's still very overpriced.

Key specs: 8960 shaders | 2572 MHz boost | 16 GB GDDR7

RTX 5070 Ti price check: Amazon $969 | Walmart $954.99 | Best Buy $989.99 View Deal

Honestly, that's still a ridiculous amount of money for a third-tier Nvidia GPU, and the Radeon RX 9070 XT would have my vote given it can effectively perform the same but for $700 at Amazon today. But the RTX 5070 Ti is still one of my favorite cards from the RTX Blackwell era, thanks to its performance, overclocking headroom, and the effectiveness of multi Frame Generation when it's got a good GPU backing it up.

So, if you were interested in getting yourself an RTX 5070 Ti, but baulked at spending over a grand for one, this is probably going to be your best chance for a while

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HWMonitor now shows you thermal hotspot data for RTX 50-series graphics cards, so I thought I'd give one of ours a quick test

Andy Edser — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:34:10 +0000

Hot off the news that repair shops have gained access to leaked internal Nvidia tools to gather RTX 50-series hotspot data, CPUID's HWMonitor has added its own hotspot thermal tracking info in the latest update.

Version 1.65 adds two hotspot sensor data rows within the graphics card column for RTX 50-series cards, right underneath the traditional GPU and memory average temperature data. This should make it easier for users to diagnose whether their card is suffering from dried out thermal paste and pads, or a mis-contacted cooler.

The hotspot temperature will naturally be higher than the regular GPU temp reading under load, so don't panic if you see some elevated figures. Personally, I'd only become concerned if the hot spot temps were alarmingly high, combined with the GPU cooler fans spinning like a small tornado and the gaming performance dropping like a stone.

All that being said, I gritted my teeth and decided to check out the Asus TUF Gaming RTX 5070 Ti OC Edition's hotspot temps while running Crimson Desert at 4K with path tracing enabled, just to give myself a worst-case scenario. Oh, and there's a heatwave on in the UK at the moment, and my house has no air conditioning. Perfect test conditions!

As you can see from the results below, while the GPU sat comfortably at around 62-63 °C on average, HWMonitor recorded a brief hotspot spike into the mid-80s, although settled down to a 75-80 °C temp afterwards.

(Image credit: CPUID)

I'm fairly comfortable with that, as I've benched this card many times and its performance is right in line with other RTX 5070 Ti data we have to hand. It's quiet as a mouse, too. Should the hotspot temps ever soar off into the stratosphere, though, I'll be having the cooler off in a heartbeat to check out the conditions underneath.

The devs behind CapFrameX, a very useful free performance monitoring utility, have also announced that RTX 50-series hotspot temps will be coming to its tracking features soon. So hey, more ways to keep an eye on your machine. And let's face it, we all like a bit of PC hardware watching, don't we?

Too hot to handle: A leaked internal Nvidia tool re-enables blocked GPU hotspot sensor data for RTX 50-series graphics cards

Andy Edser — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:56:37 +0000

Nvidia's RTX 50-series cards have a tendency to run cool and quiet. On average, at least. The current generation of Nvidia GPUs were previously claimed to have had their hotspot sensor removed, which lead to limited temp readings in real-time monitoring tools like GPU-Z, as only the regular GPU and memory temperature data is available.

However, Brazilian modding and repair channel Paulo Gomes claims to have gained access to hotspot measurements on RTX 50-series GPUs via MODS, or Nvidia Modular Diagnostic Software, an internal Nvidia tool that appears to have leaked to some repair channels and Discord servers (via Techpowerup).

By the seems of it, RTX 50-series GPUs do in fact have a hotspot temperature reporting sensor, but it's disabled at a driver level on boot. The Nvidia MODS tool bypasses the driver restriction, allowing users to see the exact hotspot temperature, making it easier to diagnose a misaligned cooler or improper application of thermal paste.

Which is what Paulo Gomes has been doing in order to diagnose RTX 50-series cards with abnormal gaming performance and high fan noise, due to thermal throttling.

In the given example, a Gigabyte RTX 5070 Ti was reporting an average temperature of around 68 °C , but had an actual hotspot maximum temp of 107 °C due to poor cooler contact. After replacing the thermal paste and ensuring the cooler was correctly fitted, the hotspot temperatures dropped to 100 °C, resulting in much better performance.

Given the sheer number of AIB coolers strapped to Nvidia's latest efforts, it's no surprise that some become victims to poor implementation of thermal interface material. That being said, it's not the first Gigabyte thermal paste-related issue we've been made aware of.

As to why hotspot data is blocked in the first place for RTX 50-series cards? No idea. Many Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs have passed through our hands since release, and we've not had issues with poor performance (relative to expectations) or thermal problems with any of them.

Still, the MODS tool is said to be out there, floating within the murky world of Discord. Be careful with what you download though, yes? There's nothing worse than getting an unintentional dose of malware to compound your PC issues, let me tell you.

More evidence that Multi Frame Gen is on the way to AMD RDNA4 GPUs, potentially as high as 8x

Jacob Fox — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:56:28 +0000

If you're rockin' a current-gen AMD graphics card, there are yet more hints that multi frame gen (MFG), ie, frame gen that promises more than 2x frame rate, could soon be with us. 'Soon' is relative, of course, especially in the case of AMD, but detective work by a user on the Chinese forum Chiphell has revealed the presence of FSR MFG ratios up to 8x hidden in recent drivers (via Wccftech).

The user discovered the setting in the RadeonTuner tool, which hooks into the official AMD driver and provides a different app on top. This app, crucially, can present things in the driver that the regular AMD Adrenalin app might not yet give you access to. Things such as the FSR ratio drop-down.

To be clear, we already knew that MFG was probably being worked on by AMD, because earlier this year there was mention of "frame generation ratios" in documentation for the ADLX API. This implied that game developers were now being allowed to tinker with frame generation ratios, which implies the existence of ratios above 2x. In other words: multi frame gen.

Now, we have more confirmation of this, and not only that, but (A) it's seemingly in the actual drivers rather than just SDK documentation, and (B) the ratio maxes out at 8x. For reference, Nvidia's Multi Frame Gen maxes out at 6x.

As someone who uses an AMD RX 9070 XT as my daily driver, I am keenly aware of just how long it's taken AMD to implement promised technologies that Nvidia has already long been able to deliver. Technologies, that is, like multi frame gen, not to mention the latest upscaling and frame gen technologies in general, in more than a smattering of games.

The RadeonTuner tool also seems to show FSR Ray Regeneration and Neural Radiance Caching overrides, which will presumably allow us to override a game's settings to force FSR ray reconstruction and neural caching for better ray tracing.

(Image credit: Future)

I can't help but wonder, though, whether AMD users would rather more adoption of the latest FSR technologies we already have, such as regular 'Redstone' ML-powered frame gen and upscaling. There have been improvements on this front of late, though, with the technologies being allowed via driver-level overrides even for previous-gen AMD GPUs.

I also can't help but wonder how 8x frame gen will work in practice. I know for my part, I struggle to deal with the latency of even 3x or 4x frame gen on Nvidia cards. But I'm particularly sensitive to latency, so maybe 8x frame gen will have its place.

Legendary dad fixes their kid's dead RTX 3070 by ripping the capacitor out of an old radio and slapping it on the side, saving over $100 in the process

James Bentley — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:09:33 +0000

Stara škola električara - najbolja
from r/SerbiaGaming

It's never nice to have to replace your old hardware, but with the memory crisis in full swing, it has become more and more painful to watch old hardware break down. That's why it's particularly nice to see people save their old hardware with a little ingenuity, and one Redditor's dad used a whole heaping of it recently.

As spotted by Tom's Hardware, user External_Length_8877 took to the SerbiaGaming subreddit recently to share that their dad ripped a capacitor from an old radio to replace the broken one in their RTX 3070, saving 12,000 dinars (around $115) in the process.

In the process, the dad also swapped out the thermal paste for one used on high-voltage lines, and the original poster claims, "Now it runs better than before the repair."

The only downside so far is that the capacitor from the radio is bulkier than the original capacitor, so it now hangs outside of the GPU. That means you can see it noticeably on the side, and it also means it may struggle in a super tight case, but one can expect some hits to performance if your parts are super cramped anyway.

The Redditor claims the GPU hits "No more than 80 °C during Spider-Man on ultra graphics settings without frame generation. Maximum load—up to 99% on GPU and CPU. And temperatures—no more than 80 °C on GPU and 75 °C on CPU."

Those aren't exactly low figures, but the Redditor claims they were going above 100 °C during stress and 80 °C+ without stress prior to the swap. It seems like the paste is the real winner here. But the important thing is that the GPU works now.

And, I personally like the DIY angle of jamming in your own capacitor, even if it makes the card look less clean. There are likely very few people in the world who can claim the GPU running Spider-Man has been operated on by their dad.

(Image credit: Future)

Still, External_Length_8877 claims it's only a "temporary solution" while they look for a capacitor with the same size and dimensions as the original they lost.

Though at-home repairs can also be a bit risky, the one silver lining of the memory crisis is that more people are learning to fix their own gear and caring more about repairability. If taking apart a radio and learning about GPUs will save you up to hundreds of dollars, it's a great skill to hone. And there's absolutely charm in your GPU looking just a little DIY.

Seasonic has removed the RTX 50-series Super GPU variants from its PSU wattage calculator. Was it just guesswork or actual info revealed too soon?

Andy Edser — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:07:26 +0000

Update July 9, 2026: The RTX 50-series Super variant listings have been removed from the Seasonic PSU wattage calculator tool, as noted by @unikoshardware. And not just the latest card that was added yesterday, either; the RTX 5080 Super, but also the RTX 5070 Super and RTX 5070 Ti Super that were added further back have also gone.

Now, that could mean different things. Either it was completely erroneous guesswork on the part of Seasonic, and after the publicity it's got from noting the GPU wattage in its calculator it's decided to stick to actually released cards, or it had the right information and was asked to remove it.

One means we're no closer to knowing when the Super series is coming, while the other suggests everything's finalised and ready to roll. Though, given that these cards were expected earlier this year, I would expect everything would already have been finalised even if the actual release has been pushed back to post-CES next year.

But it's not necessarily a case of no news is good news, it just means more questions.

(Image credit: Seasonic)

Original story July 8, 2026: If you thought Nvidia's RTX 50-series Super cards were completely MIA at this point, think again. Seasonic's online PSU calculator tool has listed the RTX 5080 Super, RTX 5070 Ti Super, and RTX 5070 Super among its entries, with increased wattages ranging from an extra 10 to 17% depending on the card.

Granted, it's not exactly much to go on. But the individual listings for the various cards adds more credence to the idea we may eventually see Nvidia's fabled Super variants at some point in the future (via Videocardz).

In terms of individual wattages, the RTX 5070 Super is listed with a 275 W TGP, 25 W more than the non-Super card's 250 W spec. The RTX 5070 Ti Super has a listed TGP of 350 W, a 50 W increase, while the RTX 5080 Super is given a 415 W figure, 55 W more than the standard RTX 5080.

Which all seems fairly reasonable. The long-mooted RTX 50-series Super range is expected to be made up of several of the existing RTX 50-series GPUs with increased clock speeds and VRAM loadouts, which would explain the higher power allocations.

That being said, I would imagine the specifics of the extra wattage bumps are likely to be guesses, as Nvidia has been tight-lipped regarding the RTX 50-series Super refresh to date—although they do align with some of Kopite7kimi's earlier predictions. There's a good chance that all of the specifications for these RTX Blackwell updates have been known inside Nvidia for a good long while now, and it's not unreasonable to expect those details to have leaked out.

(Image credit: Future)

Ever since the memory crisis began to bite (and GPUs continued to increase in price beyond their MSRPs), rumours and speculation around the RTX 50-series Super cards has gradually slowed to a drip, although that seems to be on the turn.

Prominent tech leaker @Zed__Wang suggested last month that the RTX 50-series Super cards were "back on track," alongside a rumour that a 12 GB RTX 5060 was also now on the menu, perhaps under the name RTX 5060 Super.

Given the cadence of the tech launch calendar, I suspect we'd be looking at a potential CES 2027 launch for Nvidia's long-lost 50-series Super models, as the green team has likely been sitting on them for quite some time. And with the RTX 60-series on the way at some point, it'll want the cards on the market for a decent amount of time before they're superseded by the next generation.

The question is, with what are likely to be fairly marginal performance increases, will gamers want them? Especially as they're probably going to cost a decent chunk more than the regular RTX 50-series GPUs proper, which aren't exactly cheap at this point.

It's all still up in the air, but signs are starting to suggest that we'll eventually find out.

Do not buy an RTX 5060, not while the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB is inexplicably cheaper

dave.james@futurenet.com (Dave James) — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:00:35 +0000

RTX 5060 Ti | 8 GB: was $409.99 now $329.99
The 8 GB version of the new RTX 5060 Ti is a lot cheaper than the 16 GB one, and while the extra VRAM will be useful in the future, it's absolutely not worth paying $240 more for it, despite the clear benefits. This is a great little GPU for the money and the best-performing 8 GB card you can buy. You will need to have a free Newegg account to get the $50 discount.

Key specs: 4608 shaders | 2602 MHz boost | 8 GB GDDR7

RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB price check: Walmart $364.99 | Amazon $359.99 | B&H $374.99 | Best Buy $359.99 View Deal

It's getting hard to take the tech world seriously these days, not least the PC gaming hardware market. Prices have become so utterly ludicrous across the board—from the soaring cost of RAM and SSDs, to the spiking GPU and system prices—that it's hard to get your head around when something actually becomes more affordable.

Like, I'm struggling to really get a bead on exactly why the MSI RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB over at Newegg is now just $330. That's comfortably under the MSRP of $379 it launched at last year and somewhat inconceivably that's also cheaper than any RTX 5060 I can find at any legit (or even an illegit) retailer. I've just finished trawling through the online retailers trying to find the best prices for every current gen GPU worth a damn, and figured it was worth highlighting again this somewhat anomalous pricing.

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This particular MSI GPU has never been priced this low, and looking at our price tracking from August 2025 thru to today, it's only once before that we've seen any RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB card $10 lower than this. And that most certainly was not this year.

Now, I know what you're going to say... 'an 8 GB graphics card in 2025?!' But honestly this is the most performant 8 GB GPU you can pick up. We've done the testing, well, Andy has done the testing, and you can still get a great gaming performance out of the 8 GB version of the RTX 5060 Ti versus its $240 more expensive 16 GB variant.

Yes, we're maybe a little surprised at just how much extra performance you do actually get from a mere doubling of VRAM, but it's also interesting looking at the competition between the similarly priced and specced RX 9060 XT from AMD, which comes in 8 and 16 GB trims.

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1080p gaming performance

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1% Low FPS

RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB

RX 9060 XT 8 GB

RTX 5060 8 GB

RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB

RTX 5050 8 GB

Black Myth Wukong (1080p High) Data
Product	Value
RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB	74 Avg FPS, 62 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT 8 GB	71 Avg FPS, 58 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 8 GB	64 Avg FPS, 48 1% Low FPS
RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB	62 Avg FPS, 47 1% Low FPS
RTX 5050 8 GB	50 Avg FPS, 38 1% Low FPS

Avg FPS

1% Low FPS

RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB

RX 9060 XT 8 GB

RTX 5060 8 GB

RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB

RTX 5050 8 GB

Cyberpunk 2077 (1080p RT Ultra) Data
Product	Value
RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB	52 Avg FPS, 35 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT 8 GB	41 Avg FPS, 26 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 8 GB	46 Avg FPS, 30 1% Low FPS
RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB	42 Avg FPS, 27 1% Low FPS
RTX 5050 8 GB	32 Avg FPS, 23 1% Low FPS

Avg FPS

1% Low FPS

RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB

RX 9060 XT 8 GB

RTX 5060 8 GB

RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB

RTX 5050 8 GB

F1 24 (1080p Ultra high) Data
Product	Value
RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB	90 Avg FPS, 73 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT 8 GB	82 Avg FPS, 66 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 8 GB	73 Avg FPS, 39 1% Low FPS
RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB	81 Avg FPS, 58 1% Low FPS
RTX 5050 8 GB	54 Avg FPS, 24 1% Low FPS

Avg FPS

1% Low FPS

RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB

108

RX 9060 XT 8 GB

111

RTX 5060 8 GB

109

RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB

106

RTX 5050 8 GB

Homeworld 3 (1080p Epic) Data
Product	Value
RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB	108 Avg FPS, 32 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT 8 GB	111 Avg FPS, 63 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 8 GB	109 Avg FPS, 53 1% Low FPS
RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB	106 Avg FPS, 64 1% Low FPS
RTX 5050 8 GB	96 Avg FPS, 58 1% Low FPS

Avg FPS

1% Low FPS

RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB

101

RX 9060 XT 8 GB

RTX 5060 8 GB

RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB

RTX 5050 8 GB

Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition (1080p Ultra) Data
Product	Value
RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB	101 Avg FPS, 65 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT 8 GB	93 Avg FPS, 64 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 8 GB	87 Avg FPS, 47 1% Low FPS
RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB	90 Avg FPS, 59 1% Low FPS
RTX 5050 8 GB	65 Avg FPS, 43 1% Low FPS

Avg FPS

1% Low FPS

RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB

RX 9060 XT 8 GB

RTX 5060 8 GB

RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB

RTX 5050 8 GB

The Talos Principle 2 (1080p Ultra) Data
Product	Value
RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB	69 Avg FPS, 37 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT 8 GB	66 Avg FPS, 35 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 8 GB	52 Avg FPS, 34 1% Low FPS
RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB	60 Avg FPS, 24 1% Low FPS
RTX 5050 8 GB	46 Avg FPS, 28 1% Low FPS

Avg FPS

1% Low FPS

RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB

RX 9060 XT 8 GB

RTX 5060 8 GB

RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB

RTX 5050 8 GB

Total War: Warhammer 3 (1080p Ultra) Data
Product	Value
RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB	81 Avg FPS, 59 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT 8 GB	90 Avg FPS, 42 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 8 GB	78 Avg FPS, 57 1% Low FPS
RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB	58 Avg FPS, 29 1% Low FPS
RTX 5050 8 GB	54 Avg FPS, 40 1% Low FPS

So long as you grab yourself a Newegg login (it's free to sign up with any email address) you can get access to the extra $50 discount which gives this MSI Ventus graphics card its $330 price. As I noted, that puts it below even the RTX 5060, but also the RX 9060 XT 8 GB card, and it beats them all.

Where once the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB didn't really do enough to justify its price tag, at this level it's now arguably one of the best value GPUs you can get... almost dethroning the RX 9060 XT 16 GB from that position.

Hell, it's only $40 more than the RTX 5050 and just look at the performance delta. The caveat has to be that if you're upgrading from an RTX 4060 Ti and upwards, this isn't going to be the GPU upgrade for you. I'm afraid the cost of your next graphics card is sadly not so pretty, though arguably a $550 RX 9070 GRE wouldn't be a bad shout.

But anyone else looking for a little extra sizzle in their frame rates would do far worse than picking out this little GPU.

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This China-only RTX 4080 GPU combines laptop silicon with desktop hardware, and draws a fraction of the power of a more traditional graphics card

Jess Kinghorn — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:26:06 +0000

As a manufacturing hub, China sees plenty of unique hardware projects—like this gaming Megazord. But there's plenty of innovation to be found beyond one-and-done projects like this.

For instance, back when the US Department of Commerce restricted the export of Nvidia's RTX 4090 cards, Chinese manufacturers got creative. The so-called RTX 4080M card was one result of that, featuring laptop GPU silicon on top of a custom desktop PCIe board (via Videocardz). To be clear, this is not an unofficial Nvidia product and therefore doesn't enjoy official driver support or warranties.

In fact, Nvidia addressed the gap in the China market the 4080M attempted to fill with the export-only RTX 4090 D model back in 2023. However, testing by Bilibili user 杰某 (Jie Mou) suggests this curio is at least worth a closer look.

The Bilibili user carried out testing on a machine with an Intel Core Ultra 270K Plus CPU mounted on a Maxsun Z890-A motherboard, plus 32 GB of DDR5 RAM. The 4080M achieved a graphics score of 18,614 in 3DMark Time Spy. Though that's not unimpressive in itself, what's perhaps more interesting is that it did this by pulling a fraction of the power required by a traditional RTX 4080.

An official Nvidia RTX 4080 mobile can draw a maximum of 175 W TGP, though the unofficial RTX 4080M used only 100 W.

So yes, that would all be very impressive, were it not for the fact that the RTX 4080M is only available in China and currently costs between 2,700 and 2,800 RMB due to various component shortages. Very roughly equivalent to $400 or £300, this price tag makes it comparable to the going rate for both Nvidia's RTX 5060 Ti and AMD's RX 9070 GRE in China.

The unofficial 4080M did hold its own in gaming tests pitted against the similarly priced RX 9070 GRE (Both cards also enjoy 12GB of VRAM). Though the RX 9070 GRE had the edge in most games, the 4080M enjoyed about 10 more fps in Delta Force (4K, Ultra settings). PUBG proved another interesting outlier, with the 4080M achieving 100 more frames than the AMD card (2K, Ultra).

All of that said, the 4080M arguably isn't the card to go for if you're based in China—unless you're building an ITX system where limited thermal headroom is a concern. Otherwise, the Bilibili tester says that PC builders are generally better off going with a newer, more performant card that's similarly priced (though personally I'm still compelled to give the 4080M points for its small form factor cuteness).

As for PC gamers based in the US, you can keep track of the GPU market's ups and downs with our graphics card price watch.

AMD is reportedly bumping the price of its GPU and VRAM bundles to graphics card makers and you can expect to feel the sting soon

James Bentley — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:07:06 +0000

AMD's latest line of GPUs barely followed MSRP at launch, and yet they may be set to get even pricier in the future.

As reported by Sweclockers, a poster took to Board Channels, a forum for communicating between manufacturers and partners, to share news of an AMD price increase. Effectively, it claims that Sapphire, Asus, and XFX have all been told that the supply price of GPU and video memory bundles from AMD will be bumped up by around 10% in July.

The post in question has been machine translated by Sweclockers, as the board primarily operates in Chinese, and it's otherwise difficult to get access to. It tends to be well vetted, so claims made on the forum tend to have some validity, though AMD haven't confirmed anything as of yet.

Historically AMD and Nvidia have provided graphics card manufacturers with the video memory in a bundle with the GPU. That made sense for the GPU manufacturer as it could take advantage of the economies of scale to buy that VRAM in bulk. However, the memory crisis has proven to be a thorn in the side of consumer PC hardware, and for every manufacturer, so those bundles are going up and it seems likely the end user will be the one paying at least some of the extra.

Though it's not absolutely guaranteed the reported 10% price increase will be passed on to the consumer, partners buying GPU bundles for manufacture won't want to take the price hit on their own, so they will likely adjust their own pricing to make up the difference.

As the price increase is expected to come into effect in July, partners should honour supply deals made prior to the change. So, any cards already in retailers, and those already in the manufacturing pipeline theoretically shouldn't be affected. That 10% increase won't be immediately visible, though it will likely hit us all eventually.

(Image credit: Future)

Late last year, it was rumoured Nvidia would stop bundling VRAM into its GPUs, leaving it up to partners to buy the GPU die alone and purchase the rest of the supporting cast themselves. It was theorised that would allow larger manufacturers, with wider relations to GDDR6/7 suppliers, to pick and choose where to buy their VRAM from, but the flip side is that smaller GPU vendors without those connections might struggle to compete.

So, while the price increase is a bummer, at least AMD is in some way helping support its smaller partners. Small crumbs, I know.

Unfortunately, with the memory crisis likely to go on for some time still, AMD probably isn't going to be bringing those prices back down any time soon. That means things are likely to get worse for hardware manufacturers and enthusiasts before they get any better.

New production runs of Nvidia's much-loved RTX 3060 finally hit the shelves in Europe, but the price just ain't right

Nick Evanson — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:53:04 +0000

Rumours of its resurrection rumbled away for months, but Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB graphics card has indeed been churned out from fresh runs of GPU production lines, with models hitting retailers' shelves in Germany. However, if you were hoping to pick up a cheap, older-generation card with lots of VRAM, then you're going to be disappointed when you see the price tag.

Computerbase reported the news of the fresh production runs, and a quick check of Mindfactory confirms the re-release of the GeForce RTX 3060. However, the German retailer is currently only offering a single Asus model. With an asking price of €338.99 (£291.86, $386.27), though, sales are unlikely to be especially healthy.

You only need to briefly glance through the latest GPU deals to see that this amount of money will get you a GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB in the US and an RTX 5060 8 GB in the UK, both of which will easily surpass the RTX 3060 in games. Both Blackwell GPUs have more shader units, more cache, and more memory bandwidth than the six-year-old Ampere chip, plus they support the full DLSS 4.5 tech suite.

While the RTX 3060 really only lacks DLSS Frame Generation, it also has weaker Tensor and RT cores than those in the RTX 50-series GPUs, so any game that utilises them just isn't going to be as performant. What the last-last-gen graphics card does offer more of is VRAM, of course, specifically 50% more and in some gaming scenarios, the extra memory will certainly help.

Is that enough to justify the price tag? The short answer is no; the long answer is noooooooo.

Slightly better: the RTX 4060Future

Quite a bit better: the RTX 5060Future

A lot better: the RTX 5060 TiFuture

When we reviewed the GeForce RTX 4060 back in June 2023, we recorded an average frame rate of 72 fps, with a 1% low rate of 46 fps, in Metro Exodus Enhanced (1080p Ultra). The RTX 3060 produced figures of 58 and 35 fps, respectively. Fast forward to May of last year, and the RTX 5060 pulled 87 and 47 fps, even with its shoddy launch drivers.

That's by no means indicative of how every game will run on an RTX 3060, compared to the latest GPUs, but a 50% higher average frame rate is not to be sniffed at. Swap the 5060 for an 8 GB RTX 5060 Ti, and you'll be looking at a 74% uplift on the average frame rate. Even an RTX 5050 is faster in that game, though not by very much.

The point is that the resurrection of the RTX 3060 is helping any PC gamer in these wallet-punishing times, and no amount of yelling about 8 GB of VRAM not being enough is going to offset the fact that the price is just far too high. If you really must have more graphics memory than this, then you'll be better off with an Arc B570 graphics card. While its performance is a bit wonky, it at least has 10 GB of VRAM, and you can pick one up for $250.

Believe it or not, you can buy a graphics card for less than its MSRP—and you don't need to be an Amazon Prime member to bag one

Nick Evanson — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:46:31 +0000

RX 9070 GRE | 12 GB: was $549.99 now $499.99
The RX 9070 GRE is the latest entry in AMD's RX 9000-series, and for the money, you're getting a great mid-range graphics card. At $49 under its MSRP, this deal is way better value for money than any RX 9060 XT or RTX 5060 Ti. You need to have a Newegg account and use the same email address to claim the $50 promo code.

Key specs: 3072 shaders | 2920 MHz boost | 12 GB GDDR6

RX 9070 GRE price check: Amazon $539.99 | Best Buy $549.99 | Walmart $549.99 | B&H $579.99 View Deal

Outside of the Prime Day sales, I hunt down the very best graphics card deals every single week. But at the moment, I'm checking all the major retailers' offers almost constantly. Mostly in the vain hope that something like an RTX 5070 Ti will be sold at its MSRP.

Fat chance, you might think, but you'd be surprised to know that two graphics cards are under their MSRPs: a PNY 8 GB RTX 5060 Ti and this one, a Gigabyte Radeon RX 9070 GRE, now just $500 at Newegg. Make sure to grab the $50 promo code to get the correct price.

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That's $46 under its launch price, and while that's not a massive saving, every other latest-gen graphics card (bar the 5060 Ti I've mentioned above) is noticeably over its MSRP. Now, such a situation might give you cause to worry about the GPU on offer. After all, if it's so cheap, then surely there must be a problem, right?

1 / 3

1080p gaming performance

Avg FPS

1% Low FPS

RX 9070 GRE | 12 GB

RX 9070 | 16 GB

103

RTX 5070 | 12 GB

RTX 5060 Ti | 16 GB

RX 9060 XT | 16 GB

Black Myth Wukong (1080p High) Data
Product	Value
RX 9070 GRE \| 12 GB	90 Avg FPS, 78 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 \| 16 GB	103 Avg FPS, 89 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 \| 12 GB	95 Avg FPS, 82 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 Ti \| 16 GB	75 Avg FPS, 65 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT \| 16 GB	73 Avg FPS, 63 1% Low FPS

Avg FPS

1% Low FPS

RX 9070 GRE | 12 GB

RX 9070 | 16 GB

RTX 5070 | 12 GB

RTX 5060 Ti | 16 GB

RX 9060 XT | 16 GB

Cyberpunk 2077 (1080p RT Ultra) Data
Product	Value
RX 9070 GRE \| 12 GB	63 Avg FPS, 52 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 \| 16 GB	70 Avg FPS, 58 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 \| 12 GB	72 Avg FPS, 56 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 Ti \| 16 GB	51 Avg FPS, 41 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT \| 16 GB	49 Avg FPS, 39 1% Low FPS

Avg FPS

1% Low FPS

RX 9070 GRE | 12 GB

123

RX 9070 | 16 GB

138

108

RTX 5070 | 12 GB

123

RTX 5060 Ti | 16 GB

RX 9060 XT | 16 GB

F1 24 (1080p Ultra high) Data
Product	Value
RX 9070 GRE \| 12 GB	123 Avg FPS, 89 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 \| 16 GB	138 Avg FPS, 108 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 \| 12 GB	123 Avg FPS, 96 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 Ti \| 16 GB	90 Avg FPS, 71 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT \| 16 GB	95 Avg FPS, 61 1% Low FPS

Avg FPS

1% Low FPS

RX 9070 GRE | 12 GB

123

RX 9070 | 16 GB

125

RTX 5070 | 12 GB

125

RTX 5060 Ti | 16 GB

117

RX 9060 XT | 16 GB

106

Homeworld 3 (1080p Epic) Data
Product	Value
RX 9070 GRE \| 12 GB	123 Avg FPS, 65 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 \| 16 GB	125 Avg FPS, 62 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 \| 12 GB	125 Avg FPS, 64 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 Ti \| 16 GB	117 Avg FPS, 65 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT \| 16 GB	106 Avg FPS, 65 1% Low FPS

Avg FPS

1% Low FPS

RX 9070 GRE | 12 GB

124

RX 9070 | 16 GB

143

RTX 5070 | 12 GB

139

RTX 5060 Ti | 16 GB

RX 9060 XT | 16 GB

Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition (1080p Ultra) Data
Product	Value
RX 9070 GRE \| 12 GB	124 Avg FPS, 80 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 \| 16 GB	143 Avg FPS, 76 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 \| 12 GB	139 Avg FPS, 88 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 Ti \| 16 GB	98 Avg FPS, 42 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT \| 16 GB	96 Avg FPS, 42 1% Low FPS

Avg FPS

1% Low FPS

RX 9070 GRE | 12 GB

RX 9070 | 16 GB

106

RTX 5070 | 12 GB

RTX 5060 Ti | 16 GB

RX 9060 XT | 16 GB

The Talos Principle 2 (1080p Ultra) Data
Product	Value
RX 9070 GRE \| 12 GB	92 Avg FPS, 49 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 \| 16 GB	106 Avg FPS, 74 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 \| 12 GB	92 Avg FPS, 57 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 Ti \| 16 GB	75 Avg FPS, 41 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT \| 16 GB	73 Avg FPS, 37 1% Low FPS

Avg FPS

1% Low FPS

RX 9070 GRE | 12 GB

102

RX 9070 | 16 GB

112

RTX 5070 | 12 GB

104

RTX 5060 Ti | 16 GB

RX 9060 XT | 16 GB

Total War: Warhammer 3 (1080p Ultra) Data
Product	Value
RX 9070 GRE \| 12 GB	102 Avg FPS, 46 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 \| 16 GB	112 Avg FPS, 41 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 \| 12 GB	104 Avg FPS, 53 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 Ti \| 16 GB	83 Avg FPS, 54 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT \| 16 GB	94 Avg FPS, 72 1% Low FPS

The cheaper RX 9070 GRE is getting very close to the 1080p performance of the RX 9070, and it's practically a tie with the pricier Nvidia RTX 5070.

Well, take a gander at the performance figures above, as measured for our review of the Radeon RX 9070 GRE. It's faster than a 16 GB RTX 5060 Ti and close to an RTX 5070, but here's the real kicker: it's cheaper than both of them. I know, it's somewhat of a ridiculous situation, all thanks to the AI-induced RAMpocalypse ruining the price of VRAM, but never clock a gift horse in the mouth.

As the 9070 GRE uses an RDNA 4 GPU, it has full, native support for FSR 4.1, which is a vastly superior upscaling and frame generation suite than FSR 3. It's arguably not quite as good as DLSS 4.5, and AMD is the only GPU maker to not offer multi-frame gen yet, but overall, FSR 4.1 is very good.

Since the graphics card only draws around 250 W at most, it only requires two PCIe power connectors to work, and that amount of heat shouldn't turn your gaming den into a raging furnace either.

Here's the NickGPT summary for this card: fast, capable, good value, chicken chicken, potato, my name is Susan. Dammit AI, can't you get anything right?

Timestamp (Week)	Nvidia RTX 5070 (Price, $)	Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB (Price, $)	AMD RX 9070 (Price, $)
1	550	430	600
2	550	430	600
3	524	430	550
4	546	430	550
5	481	430	600
6	499	379	600
7	520	430	550
8	500	430	550
9	500	430	560
10	480	430	550
11	489	400	550
12	500	400	530
13	527	420	530
14	540	420	530
15	499	430	530
16	499	430	530
17	549	430	580
18	540	450	580
19	549	450	580
20	620	520	600
21	620	520	590
22	620	520	630
23	630	520	630
24	625	520	620
25	630	550	610
26	604	550	610
27	640	570	630
28	630	515	620
29	636	500	620
30	630	500	620
31	599	500	620
32	599	515	620
33	599	490	600
34	599	550	620
35	599	550	600
36	599	550	600
37	599	570	600
38	599	570	600
39	599	570	600
40	599	565	600
41	560	560	600
42	550	570	635
43	755	650	650

Product	Value
RX 9070 GRE \| 12 GB	62 Avg FPS, 55 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 \| 16 GB	73 Avg FPS, 64 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 \| 12 GB	68 Avg FPS, 60 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 Ti \| 16 GB	51 Avg FPS, 45 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT \| 16 GB	48 Avg FPS, 44 1% Low FPS

Product	Value
RX 9070 GRE \| 12 GB	38 Avg FPS, 23 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 \| 16 GB	43 Avg FPS, 36 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 \| 12 GB	45 Avg FPS, 36 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 Ti \| 16 GB	32 Avg FPS, 26 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT \| 16 GB	30 Avg FPS, 24 1% Low FPS

Product	Value
RX 9070 GRE \| 12 GB	81 Avg FPS, 52 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 \| 16 GB	90 Avg FPS, 67 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 \| 12 GB	78 Avg FPS, 60 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 Ti \| 16 GB	56 Avg FPS, 45 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT \| 16 GB	60 Avg FPS, 46 1% Low FPS

Product	Value
RX 9070 GRE \| 12 GB	101 Avg FPS, 61 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 \| 16 GB	104 Avg FPS, 62 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 \| 12 GB	112 Avg FPS, 64 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 Ti \| 16 GB	97 Avg FPS, 64 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT \| 16 GB	86 Avg FPS, 65 1% Low FPS

Product	Value
RX 9070 GRE \| 12 GB	92 Avg FPS, 63 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 \| 16 GB	107 Avg FPS, 74 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 \| 12 GB	100 Avg FPS, 68 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 Ti \| 16 GB	72 Avg FPS, 34 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT \| 16 GB	71 Avg FPS, 34 1% Low FPS

Product	Value
RX 9070 GRE \| 12 GB	61 Avg FPS, 22 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 \| 16 GB	74 Avg FPS, 53 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 \| 12 GB	64 Avg FPS, 42 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 Ti \| 16 GB	51 Avg FPS, 32 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT \| 16 GB	49 Avg FPS, 35 1% Low FPS

Product	Value
RX 9070 GRE \| 12 GB	82 Avg FPS, 51 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 \| 16 GB	96 Avg FPS, 43 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 \| 12 GB	81 Avg FPS, 53 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 Ti \| 16 GB	60 Avg FPS, 44 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT \| 16 GB	62 Avg FPS, 45 1% Low FPS

Product	Value
RX 9070 GRE \| 12 GB	33 Avg FPS, 30 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 \| 16 GB	40 Avg FPS, 30 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 \| 12 GB	37 Avg FPS, 30 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 Ti \| 16 GB	28 Avg FPS, 25 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT \| 16 GB	25 Avg FPS, 22 1% Low FPS

Product	Value
RX 9070 GRE \| 12 GB	10 Avg FPS, 5 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 \| 16 GB	20 Avg FPS, 17 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 \| 12 GB	21 Avg FPS, 17 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 Ti \| 16 GB	15 Avg FPS, 12 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT \| 16 GB	14 Avg FPS, 11 1% Low FPS

Timestamp (Week)	Nvidia RTX 5070 (Price, $)	Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB (Price, $)	AMD RX 9070 (Price, $)
1	550	430	600
2	550	430	600
3	524	430	550
4	546	430	550
5	481	430	600
6	499	379	600
7	520	430	550
8	500	430	550
9	500	430	560
10	480	430	550
11	489	400	550
12	500	400	530
13	527	420	530
14	540	420	530
15	499	430	530
16	499	430	530
17	549	430	580
18	540	450	580
19	549	450	580
20	620	520	600
21	620	520	590
22	620	520	630
23	630	520	630
24	625	520	620
25	630	550	610
26	604	550	610
27	640	570	630
28	630	515	620
29	636	500	620
30	630	500	620
31	599	500	620
32	599	515	620
33	599	490	600
34	599	550	620
35	599	550	600
36	599	550	600
37	599	570	600
38	599	570	600
39	599	570	600
40	599	565	600
41	560	560	600
42	550	570	635
43	755	650	650

Product	Value
RX 9070 GRE \| 12 GB	33 Avg FPS, 23 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 \| 16 GB	44 Avg FPS, 32 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 \| 12 GB	39 Avg FPS, 30 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 Ti \| 16 GB	27 Avg FPS, 21 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT \| 16 GB	30 Avg FPS, 22 1% Low FPS

Product	Value
RX 9070 GRE \| 12 GB	63 Avg FPS, 50 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 \| 16 GB	72 Avg FPS, 56 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 \| 12 GB	79 Avg FPS, 55 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 Ti \| 16 GB	58 Avg FPS, 50 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT \| 16 GB	46 Avg FPS, 41 1% Low FPS

Product	Value
RX 9070 GRE \| 12 GB	26 Avg FPS, 10 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 \| 16 GB	39 Avg FPS, 24 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 \| 12 GB	35 Avg FPS, 24 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 Ti \| 16 GB	27 Avg FPS, 18 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT \| 16 GB	25 Avg FPS, 19 1% Low FPS

Product	Value
RX 9070 GRE \| 12 GB	42 Avg FPS, 29 1% Low FPS
RX 9070 \| 16 GB	52 Avg FPS, 36 1% Low FPS
RTX 5070 \| 12 GB	44 Avg FPS, 30 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 Ti \| 16 GB	33 Avg FPS, 22 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT \| 16 GB	30 Avg FPS, 20 1% Low FPS

Product	Value
RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB	50 Avg FPS, 43 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT 8 GB	48 Avg FPS, 43 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 8 GB	44 Avg FPS, 37 1% Low FPS
RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB	42 Avg FPS, 37 1% Low FPS
RTX 5050 8 GB	33 Avg FPS, 28 1% Low FPS

Product	Value
RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB	33 Avg FPS, 25 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT 8 GB	26 Avg FPS, 17 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 8 GB	23 Avg FPS, 12 1% Low FPS
RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB	24 Avg FPS, 13 1% Low FPS
RTX 5050 8 GB	17 Avg FPS, 10 1% Low FPS

Product	Value
RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB	59 Avg FPS, 47 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT 8 GB	51 Avg FPS, 41 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 8 GB	45 Avg FPS, 13 1% Low FPS
RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB	48 Avg FPS, 11 1% Low FPS
RTX 5050 8 GB	34 Avg FPS, 22 1% Low FPS

Product	Value
RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB	87 Avg FPS, 42 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT 8 GB	75 Avg FPS, 58 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 8 GB	89 Avg FPS, 52 1% Low FPS
RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB	82 Avg FPS, 62 1% Low FPS
RTX 5050 8 GB	68 Avg FPS, 35 1% Low FPS

Product	Value
RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB	75 Avg FPS, 53 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT 8 GB	68 Avg FPS, 49 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 8 GB	63 Avg FPS, 45 1% Low FPS
RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB	65 Avg FPS, 29 1% Low FPS
RTX 5050 8 GB	46 Avg FPS, 33 1% Low FPS

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The RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB currently costs more than the RTX 5070 and RX 9070 XT, and I know which one I'd pick

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We've been tracking graphics card prices for exactly one year and it's never been worse than this

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Tracking 12 and 16 GB graphics card pricing over 12 months

The GPU price hike is here and you should avoid any Nvidia card with more than 8 GB VRAM, if you value your bank balance

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It is genuinely cheaper for me to fly to QuakeCon and buy a RTX 5090 at the Nvidia booth than pick up the GPU absolutely anywhere else

EA has fixed a niche Battlefield 6 issue where some Nvidia GPUs were crashing while changing attachments or 'playing on maps with large bodies of water'

I tried the 'stress test your GPU hopes you never run' and it made my main gaming rig look like a chump

First AMD RX 9050 8 GB review suggests RTX 3060-like performance but with some strange spec discrepancies

AMD is reportedly raising graphics card prices—it was just waiting for Nvidia to do it first

The memory crisis keeps getting worse: Nvidia graphics card prices now rumoured to increase by as much as 30%

AMD launches the RX 9050, and it's even more entry-level than expected - update: it's $279 and limited to certain regions

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Redditor uses 'ticking time bomb' vial of gallium to stop their GPU sagging

If you're looking for ideas on how to mod your RTX 4060, maybe remove its fans and slap a ridiculously big heatsink on it like this person did

This is the cheapest Nvidia's RTX 5070 has been all year... and [whisper] there's actually a deal on the RTX 5070 Ti, too

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HWMonitor now shows you thermal hotspot data for RTX 50-series graphics cards, so I thought I'd give one of ours a quick test

Too hot to handle: A leaked internal Nvidia tool re-enables blocked GPU hotspot sensor data for RTX 50-series graphics cards

More evidence that Multi Frame Gen is on the way to AMD RDNA4 GPUs, potentially as high as 8x

Legendary dad fixes their kid's dead RTX 3070 by ripping the capacitor out of an old radio and slapping it on the side, saving over $100 in the process

Seasonic has removed the RTX 50-series Super GPU variants from its PSU wattage calculator. Was it just guesswork or actual info revealed too soon?

Do not buy an RTX 5060, not while the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB is inexplicably cheaper

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This China-only RTX 4080 GPU combines laptop silicon with desktop hardware, and draws a fraction of the power of a more traditional graphics card

AMD is reportedly bumping the price of its GPU and VRAM bundles to graphics card makers and you can expect to feel the sting soon

New production runs of Nvidia's much-loved RTX 3060 finally hit the shelves in Europe, but the price just ain't right

Believe it or not, you can buy a graphics card for less than its MSRP—and you don't need to be an Amazon Prime member to bag one

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Timestamp (Week)	Nvidia RTX 5070 (Price, $)	Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB (Price, $)	AMD RX 9070 (Price, $)
1	550	430	600
2	550	430	600
3	524	430	550
4	546	430	550
5	481	430	600
6	499	379	600
7	520	430	550
8	500	430	550
9	500	430	560
10	480	430	550
11	489	400	550
12	500	400	530
13	527	420	530
14	540	420	530
15	499	430	530
16	499	430	530
17	549	430	580
18	540	450	580
19	549	450	580
20	620	520	600
21	620	520	590
22	620	520	630
23	630	520	630
24	625	520	620
25	630	550	610
26	604	550	610
27	640	570	630
28	630	515	620
29	636	500	620
30	630	500	620
31	599	500	620
32	599	515	620
33	599	490	600
34	599	550	620
35	599	550	600
36	599	550	600
37	599	570	600
38	599	570	600
39	599	570	600
40	599	565	600
41	560	560	600
42	550	570	635
43	755	650	650

Product	Value
RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB	57 Avg FPS, 40 1% Low FPS
RX 9060 XT 8 GB	60 Avg FPS, 44 1% Low FPS
RTX 5060 8 GB	55 Avg FPS, 40 1% Low FPS
RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB	45 Avg FPS, 28 1% Low FPS
RTX 5050 8 GB	37 Avg FPS, 27 1% Low FPS