I hoped for Prime Day graphics card deals, and actually Newegg has delivered near-MSRP deals on my favorite AMD GPU, the RX 9070

I hoped, but did I expect Prime Day graphics card deals? In all honesty, given that we've been tracking GPU prices on a week-by-week basis since August last year, we knew that the base price of pretty much every graphics card had more or less plateaued. So, I had an inkling there would be a few actual price drops over Prime Day this year, and lo, it has come to pass.

And it has come to pass on our favorite graphics card of this generation, where the AMD Radeon RX 9070 has come in with a $570 price tag at Newegg thanks to its membership promo codes. Unlike Amazon's own Prime Member deals, you don't actually have to pay for Newegg's, just given 'em some data (name and email address) and you'll get a $30 promo code that knocks the price down from the listed $600.

That means you're only $20 north of the original, and very much ephemeral, $550 MSRP the card launched with back in March of last year. And that makes it a very, very good card in this market, especially when it's only a little short of the more expensive RX 9070 XT, which itself is only a little behind the hilariously expensive RTX 5070 Ti.

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And when it comes to the poor RTX 5070 this is a GPU that can outperform it on the regular. Luckily, for those of an Nvidia persuasion, you can now get the RTX 5070 (again with a Newegg member promo code) for just $550. Though the fact you can also bag an RX 9070 GRE now for just $500 via Newegg leaves the green team's card sandwiched between those two impressive AMD GPUs.

For me, well, I'd be spending my money on the RX 9070; it was too expensive when I first reviewed it, having already shrugged off its MSRP just after launch, but now it's far too great a competition for Nvidia's similarly priced offerings. It's got 16 GB VRAM, it's got a ton of 1440p gaming performance, and it has the undervolting potential baked into the Navi 42 GPU that makes it a really fun graphics card to just play with, too.

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Best graphics card 2026

1. Best overall: AMD Radeon RX 9070

2. Best value: AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB

3. Best budget: Nvidia RTX 5050

4. Best mid-range: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

5. Best high-end: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090

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Dave has been gaming since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug on the Colecovision, and code books for the Commodore Vic 20 (Death Race 2000!). He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system around a year later. When he dropped it out of the window. He first started writing for Official PlayStation Magazine and Xbox World many decades ago, then moved onto PC Format full-time, then PC Gamer, TechRadar, and T3 among others. Now he's back, writing about the nightmarish graphics card market, CPUs with more cores than sense, gaming laptops hotter than the sun, and SSDs more capacious than a Cybertruck.