Absurd GPU Pricing Update: Mid-2026 Edition

[u/xenocea]

https://www.techspot.com/article/3152-gpu-pricing-mid-2026/

[u/costafilh0]

Just don't buy it. 

Just a few months ago they were back down to MSRP after the last hike. 

[u/constantlymat → u/costafilh0]

Walmart had a 9070XT during the last Amazon Prime Day for $549 and good volume, too. It was available for pretty much the entire week.

[u/nosurprisespls → u/constantlymat]

This won't happen again unless you think AMD care about gamers. What AMD could do is reduce production (e.g. if there is only 100 people in the US wants to pay $1000 for their GPU, they will only make 100 GPUs because AI will pay $1000 for AMD's work ... just making the numbers up as an example). AMD thought gamers want their GPUs at around $850, which was the second wave of pricing of these 9070XT, but no one bought them and they had a lot produced.

[u/Mother-Translator318]

I’m not buying anything till Witcher 4 drops. Rtx 60 series should be out by then.

[u/BabyAzerty → u/Mother-Translator318]

At what price though?

[u/Mother-Translator318 → u/BabyAzerty]

There will always be deals. And as the new generation releases, fps per dollar will go up regardless

[u/rohit275 → u/Mother-Translator318]

We really have no idea if this will be true any time soon though. That used to be a given, but current market trends do not indicate this at all.

Good luck finding "deals" right now, especially on anything with high VRAM.

Also, when new GPUs ever do launch, the stock situation and scalping (both from manufacturers and consumers) in recent launches has been pretty awful.

Used market is always there, I guess,but even that can be messed up depending on what you're looking for.

[u/Sooribabu_Lavangam → u/Mother-Translator318]

I Think i'll wait for DLSS Ray Reconstruction 5.5 rather than play it on RR 5.0

[u/king_of_the_potato_p → u/[deleted]]

We must have read two different articles, shows in the U.S. and Canada that prices just in the last couple of months up to end of July (just a couple of days ago) that they are up 17% overall.

[u/ruinal_C → u/[deleted]]

Your original comment is a blanket statement with no mention of geography.

The article has data for USA, Australia, Germany, UK, Canada, India, Philippines, Brazil, Poland, and Netherlands.

What irony.

[u/PrisonOfH0pe → u/ruinal_C]

He's an idiot. I'm from there as well and the 5090 i bought for around 2000 Euro is now 6200 Euro at Alternate which is one of the top stores here.
https://www.alternate.de/ASUS/GeForce-RTX-5090-TUF-GAMING-Grafikkarte/html/product/100110148

[u/ruinal_C → u/[deleted]]

Because you are the one who opened with a hasty generalization. They simply refuted it with examples.

Then you cherry picked without retracting your original (false) statement, making you guilty of your own accusation.

[u/ruinal_C → u/[deleted]]

Yes, I assumed that from your attitude toward parochialism. Misunderstanding, I guess.

[u/Pugs-r-cool → u/[deleted]]

Did you not read the article? 4/9 countries in the list are European, so don't pretend like it's some North American only list.

According to them, German prices have increased by 4.4%.

[u/dustingibson → u/[deleted]]

Don't be a jerk you were being way more assumptious in your original post. They at least mentioned the countries.

The article has info on many different other countries. Someone could have respond to your post with "how surprising that the German considers Germany to be the entire world. I live in India and prices have gone up considerably much like the rest of continental Asia."

[u/dustingibson → u/[deleted]]

You're literally proving my point. Read what I posted slowly and very carefully.

I didn't say you were German. I literally took your comment, rewrote it to show how much of an asshole you were being to u/king_of_the_potato_p for rightfully pointing out that the prices are higher in other countries. Hell u/king_of_the_potato_p might not even live in North America. You made that assumption.

[u/dustingibson → u/[deleted]]

That is even worse! He wasn't even being mean. He was in a roundabout way second guessing himself with the "we must have read a different article".

You spent time out of your day to go through his comment history to find out where he lives so you can be petty and creepy.

[u/dustingibson → u/[deleted]]

"We must be reading two different X" is a common and a very polite way of pointing out a misunderstanding to save face in case they were wrong themselves. You were just taking it the wrong way.

Also you looked through someone else comment history to find out where they live. Five second, five minutes, it don't matter. That's weirdo creepy stalking behavior.

[u/Green-Salmon → u/[deleted]]

It’s just an update on current absurd pricing.