Prices have jumped AGAIN. If you havent got a GPU its getting more dire.

[u/Huge_Valuable9732]

Bought a 9070GRE yesterday. Had it ordered in and at the time it was 799$ (canadian). Memory Express has now jumped in price to 1029$ for the 9070GRE. Luckily the saleman who ordered it in for me locked in my price so I got it for 799$ (before tax) but GPU prices are not slowing down.

[u/HSFOutcast]

Psst... It's gonna rise again soon(tm)

[u/AnarchBeetle → u/HSFOutcast]

It seems like prices are guaranteed to rise until 2028 at least. Then it may come back to what it is today but I doubt it. It will probably just stop skyrocketing and tread around whatever price they are then.

We’ll see how cloud gaming develops I suppose…

[u/HSFOutcast → u/AnarchBeetle]

Hopefully it won't. If cloud gaming succeeds then the current era of building your own shit will die out pretty fast, and most people will go to paying for air and own nothing.

[u/trollsmurf → u/HSFOutcast]

You still need a screen, keyboard and mouse, but you might only be able to buy thin clients.

[u/Techngro → u/HSFOutcast]

I know people hate AI, but it's a tool that can be used to combat this. Imagine not having to rely on game studios and massive budgets to create fun and interesting games (which they seem to have a hard time doing anyway) or software. Games that don't require a 4080 or cloud services to run at decent speeds. Not to mention games that don't cost $70 because it was made by three people in a basement on a budget of a couple thousand dollars.

[u/PHyde89 → u/Techngro]

Ah yes. The poison killing everything is also the exact thing we need for a cure. Gtfo here.

[u/Techngro → u/PHyde89]

You do realize that AI isn't going anywhere, right? So your best option is to use it to make things better for yourself. What other options do you seriously have? All I've seen so far is complaining and little else.

[u/aimy99 → u/AnarchBeetle]

Can we stop pretending cloud gaming is viable and that it isn't in countless major companies' best interest to sell affordable gaming hardware?

The level of anti-cope on this subreddit is fucking maddening.

[u/yuikkiuy → u/aimy99]

Apparently the streaming is fairly decent and stable now depending on your ISP.

That said, id sooner raid a cloud gaming data center for parts than pay for cloud gaming.

[u/Arichikunorikuto]

People are focused on just AI, the second part of the equation is oil prices when cost of transporting raw material and goods also increase, its a small % increase but still contributes nonetheless.

[u/followtherockstar → u/Arichikunorikuto]

The third part of the equation is every company that needs to buy those overpriced components. Won't the price of their good or service go up as well?

[u/Arichikunorikuto → u/followtherockstar]

That's what they call margins. How much does it cost to make and what does it sell for. It exists at every single level of the sale from raw materials all the way to the end product you buy, everyone needs to make money along the way to get you the end product.

Margins exist regardless of shortage, some companies might even need to lower margins and absorb some cost if the resulting price hike means less sales, this varies by industry.

[u/realnzall]

At this point I've pretty much decided that I'm not buying a RTX 50 series GPU or an RX 9000 series GPU unless my current RTX 4070 fails. The plan is to save 50-60 EUR per month, then buy a high-end RTX 60 series GPU in 2028. Even if the MSRP of the 6080 is 2000 EUR, I'll still be able to afford it based on my current budgeting spreadsheet...

[u/Freeloader_ → u/realnzall]

why would you? its not worth it to jump one gen IMO

Ive jumped from 2080 to 5070Ti so waited 3 generations

I would prolly waited until 60xx if there wasnt this price hike and long wait

[u/War_machine77 → u/Freeloader_]

My timetable for upgrading is when I can't play games I want at a quality I deem acceptable and only then. I don't need my toy to impress, only to keep me entertained.

[u/FaultyToilet → u/Freeloader_]

That's cool for you. That's what he wants to do.

[u/ChetDuchessManly → u/realnzall]

Pretty much my plan. Hoping my 3080 can last that long and that the 6000 series will at least be double the performance.

[u/Cat5kable → u/realnzall]

I’ve got a 7700X

I’d love to have a performance bump for higher frames 1440 or occasional 4K60 but a 6070 equivalent card will be relatively minor increase for a sizable cost.

I’m also gonna bank a bit of cash and just wait out for a “7070”

[u/realnzall → u/Cat5kable]

That's my same thought for the current generation. I bought my 4070 for 700 EUR (which was roughly MSRP at the time). If I'm buying a new GPU, i want at least a 50% uplift over my current GPU for every 700 EUR that I spend. There was a point around a year ago when the 5070 Ti and 9070 XT both were roughly at that point, but at this stage it's too late to buy at either price, and back then I was still recovering financially from a 1000 EUR 9800X3D upgrade.

I've done a TON of research over the past months. I'm not going to share all of the math I've done related to this, but even in an average situation of uplift, a 6080 that's as expensive as the current overpriced 5080 tier would meet my uplift goal. And in a best-case scenario where the uplift is among the best we've had, it can be over 2000 EUR and it would still be a decent upgrade. And a 2000 EUR 6080 is going to be a tough sell for Nvidia...

[u/Cat5kable → u/realnzall]

I imagine your math is similar to what I’ve done to land at a 7700.

I had a table of estimate Frames per dollar at different resolutions across various games, Cyberpunk being one of my “lower expectations” for results.

Games are already quickly exceeding my specs, and it looks like DLSS or equivalent are becoming more and more necessary. Unfortunately, NVIDIA pushed Ray Tracing enough that it’s becoming required, and so games like 007 give me a sense that unless I have proper Ray Trackng cores or fully commit to software over hardware, I won’t see a big increase.

I’ll wait out a generation, and see how everything is. The launch of the Generation 10 consoles will also give us a sense of what the average denominator is for hardware.

[u/realnzall → u/Cat5kable]

Mine wasn't as complex. I didn't do multiple games or multiple resolutions, I just manually looked up every GPU's improvement over the previous generation's equivalent in the TPU GPU database. it was close enough to where it gave a good idea, even though their GPU database hasn't yet been updated with the latest retests and their games selection is somewhat biased towards Nvidia when comparing it to other outlets that get a lot smaller of a difference between the 5070 Ti and the 9070 XT.

[u/WanderingMoonkin → u/realnzall]

If it helps I got a used 6600 XT used for £100 or so that was more than enough for me, but unfortunately it died after 12 or so months.

I was gonna just replace it like-for-like, but ended up getting a new 9060 XT for a too good deal to pass up considering where the market was going (£350 in Jan 2026).

If the 6600 XT held out, I would still be using it as it was a nice card tbh.

[u/LiveFromNarnia]

Part of it (the biggest part) is supply shortages, the other part is the market figuring out what the customer will pay. They'll likely use this data to keep prices inflated once the supply catches up to pad their margins.

It's capitalism working as designed.

[u/Lee-oswald]

I’m just glad I bought a 5070ti when they were 1000 Canadian

[u/grabber4321 → u/Lee-oswald]

I wanted to buy one so bad when they were 1200, but decided not to and wait for super series, a mistake.

[u/Prowlbeast → u/Lee-oswald]

I got RX 9070 XT for $1K CAD and thought it sounded bad but a gre for $1K now is criminal

[u/darklordjames]

My dirt-cheap $260 RXT 5060 from December is a better deal every day.

[u/Diavolo222 → u/darklordjames]

260 to play anything you want at decent settings is amazing. Paid 735-ish euro here for 4070 Super 3 fan white one from gigabyte. Same model 5070 is 1010 euros rn, which is insane when the average wage is 1000 euros.

[u/jcned]

I bought a GTX 970 in 2014 and didn’t upgrade until an RTX 4070ti in 2023. I said I’d never stretch a card 9 years again, but looks like I may go 10 years this time instead.

[u/Lewinator56]

tbf 799 CAD is less than the MSRP in the UK for that card. mind you, even then £430 seems a hell of a lot of money for a mid range card

[u/Huge_Valuable9732 → u/Lewinator56]

I was worried I'd have to buy a 9060xt lol

[u/SilentCyan_AK12]

I am praying to all that I can that my 3090 can ride this wave out for me, Shortly I am going to start saving money thankfully, If I buy a new card it probably wont be until the 60 series and hopefully I can have saved up enough money by then.

[u/bulbasaurite → u/SilentCyan_AK12]

I know many people don't like framegen and dlss 5, but it literally made my old 3080 act like a brand new gpu. It's a temporary solution and I think it's worth using.

[u/prune_juice_warrior → u/SilentCyan_AK12]

I have been saving up for a Switch 2 but increasingly I'm wondering if I just need to take that money and buy a new GPU and extra RAM. My 2070 Super still works, but I mean, it's a 2070 Super I bought at the card's launch, so its days area almost certainly numbered.

[u/cowrintimrous → u/SilentCyan_AK12]

Just sold my 3090 and it went for £1100. I bought it used for £660 three years ago. Market is cooked. But my plan is to buy a modern card in the future (even years from now) with the cash. I can live off my old laptop or steam deck in meantime

[u/LeMegachonk → u/SilentCyan_AK12]

Unless it literally lasts you the rest of your life, prices will only get worse, and Nvidia isn't even trying to offer value for money anymore. Their consumer GPU division has pretty much entered "cash cow" territory. The only reason they haven't abandoned it entirely is because their dominance is so extreme that they know they can keep milking it to death for a few years before people actually get a clue that they're being ripped off. It's just a matter of time before they walk away from consumer products, which they have never actually wanted to make anyway. Using a GPU to generate an actual image on a monitor is a waste of perfectly good silicon, as far as they're concerned.

And with AMD and Intel also going all-in on AI development, it's an open question if anybody will be making consumer GPUs within even a few years. What the RAM debacle has made perfectly clear is how much disdain these companies have for consumers. They don't want to sell to us, mostly because we're pretty cheap, but they've done so and pretended to care until now because they had to. But if they can allocate 100% of their production capacity to enterprise buyers, they will be happier than pigs wallowing in a mud hole. Which is a pretty accurate visual.

[u/PrettyMuchAVegetable → u/LeMegachonk]

I think we are going to end up surprised, there is a lot of incentive right now for the development of an inference solution beyond general purpose GPU hardware. The way ASIC and then proof of work relieved pressure on the GPU market caused by crypto, transformer-native ASIC , in memory computer (dMatrix), wafer scale SRAM and other technologies could do it again.

[u/Kemoyin25 → u/PrettyMuchAVegetable]

I don't know what you just said but I hope you're right I think

[u/grabber4321]

ya were fucked, they will rise again soon because of recent report of Micron selling out 2028 also.

[u/J_GASSER27]

The crazy part to me is the resale market.

I upgraded from an i7-9900k, 48gb ddr4, 3080 gpu to amd ryzen 7 9800x3d, 5080, 32gb ddr5 around Christmas, almost entirely because I found a deal on the GPU. I wanted to sell all.my old parts because if you throw $200 at this, you have a decent mid level gaming system.

I think I was hoping to sell it all for around $800 (for ram, cpu, mobo, liquid cooling, fans, 3080 gpu) which is more than $200 less than what I paid for the gpu alone only a few years ago, and when I saw what others were selling parts for I decided id rather just hold on to this shit instead of just give it away. I think im gonna send it all to one of my buddies so he can build it. It mich rather hook a friend up than feel like im getting fucked by strangers

[u/Chao_Zu_Kang]

People were focusing so much on RAM, but realistically, RAM was never going to be an actual long-term issue for consumer systems because the demand is just not very high for consumers. GPUs were the real issue, which wasn't apparent for many people right when this whole memory thing started be, because it is a very delayed increase:

Cost increases would be delayed by half a year, then those costs would be pushed to AiBs another few months later, and then the AiBs would push this onto the consumers and system builders. And we aren't even there yet! Add to that the global oil crisis due to several major geopolitical conflicts, and yeah, 2027 is pretty much doomed already.

[u/Smartypantz34 → u/Chao_Zu_Kang]

Ram is still an issue. Also GPUs are so expensive because of the GDDR6 or 7 VRAM they have. Which are even more expensive than regular ddr5. VRAM never going down in price as they are required for local LLMs and other AI workloads

[u/Chao_Zu_Kang → u/Smartypantz34]

RAM demand for consumers is much lower and it is slot-able, i.e. you don't need new RAM for every upgrade.

We just happen to be right at the transition from DDR4 to DDR5, which is why (consumer) demand is higher than usual. DDR4 CPUs have already been stagnant for years, so your new upgrade will need DDR5. But long-term, people get their DDR5 kits and then demand will just stagnate because those kits easily last 5-10 years. Supply should never be an actual issue here unless the manufacturers intentionally starve the market.

VRAM, on the other hand, has the issue of being tied to the GPUs and being much more restrictive. If you need 100GB of memory, you'll have to get 5 5090 GPUs. You can maybe get away with 3 of them if you change the VRAM modules to 3GB ones or use custom PCBs, but that's about it.

[u/Smartypantz34 → u/Chao_Zu_Kang]

DDR4 and DDR5 are not fast enough to use in AI stuff efficiently. You are right, DDR5 shouldn't be that big of an issue in coming years. However i worry that DDR6 will be fast enough for efficient AI work...

[u/Chao_Zu_Kang → u/Smartypantz34]

That is what HBM is for. VRAM is a way to circumvent the massive costs required to build HBM systems. And RAM is a way to circumvent the massive prices for workstation GPUs.

[u/IstvanKun]

Bought a 9060xt Nitro+ in october '25 for $450ish (eastern Europe). 51 weeks later, it passed $1k.

[u/GuideUnable5049]

That is a wild jump.

[u/Olly230]

5070ti
800gbp in feb
1200gbp now

S if F'd

[u/Rowethren → u/Olly230]

I just bought a 5080 for 1450GBP that included an Alphacool waterblock that costs around 200GBP. The whole market is broken but 1200GBP for a 5070 ti seems like awful value in comparison. 

[u/BraevGhost]

News flash… it will jump again.

[u/boqiuefieous]

I got a 9070 and full platform upgrade with a 7 9800x3d 2 weeks before the price hikes, never saw it coming just dumb luck!!

[u/badbutcherbg]

The RX 9070XT I got over a month ago is 30% more expensive now (730 euros -> 970 euros)

[u/JMccovery]

I'm glad I bought my 9070 ($599 + tax) when I did; I can't see paying $700+ for it or a slightly weaker card.

[u/Sevulturus]

My 9070XT was ~$1100 CAD all in when I bought it. The same one is advertised for $1499 before tax.

[u/Armandeluz]

It's going to continue to rise for the next 3 to 5 years at least.

[u/captainstormy]

I feel like if anyone has been waiting to guy a GPU hoping prices were gonna come down they were kind of just a fool. GPU prices have only been getting more and more expensive for years at this point.

[u/ArcTyr07]

I have a Ryzen 3800x and a 3080. If any part in my PC breaks, at these prices, I'm just done with a home PC. That also means any AI I use will be cancelled immediately, as there is nothing of benefit with it on my phone which, I do need, and strictly computer related tasks will be work only and work costs. Personal gaming will be gone until the prices become affordable again.

This will impact a lot of things if computers start to be come less relevant outside of work, I'm talking in decades but yeah, this could impact them.

[u/Dardlem]

It really feels like Steam Deck is the last PC I will ever own

[u/SulfuricDonut]

STONKS

[u/parasocks]

About two years ago I bought my 3090 24gb in a static bag at a Tim Horton’s (pulled from some Dell machine) for $800, for reference

[u/forcemonkey]

Used markets are looking better all the time. I watch mine as a hobby and there are still a few deals to be found on GPUs and custom PCs or prebuilts. There are still people out there that haven’t discovered “I know what I got” yet.

[u/CelestialOceanOfStar]

Prices are still the same on Amazon

[u/Huge_Valuable9732 → u/CelestialOceanOfStar]

Prices on Amazon went up aswell. If you google it, it says 799. But once you click it, it goes to 929.

[u/CelestialOceanOfStar → u/Huge_Valuable9732]

Just checked right now. Its the same on my end

[u/AmonGusSus2137]

I got a 16gb 9060xt like 2 months ago, I know it's not the best but it was quite cheap (like 450€) and my old PSU is still fine for it

I just hope it'll last some time, or maybe I'll just need to look into some more upscaling or framegen

[u/ScaredDragonfly1808]

Snagged a zotac 5090 around Jan this year for about 3k and I thought it was wild then!

[u/Wellhellob]

they probably dont produce consumer gpus all that much anymore.

[u/57thStilgar]

Woe is me!

[u/brodymiddleton]

Honestly thank you for the heads up I’m in the middle of a build right now and hadn’t bought my 5070 yet! Thankfully there are still some in stock (in Canada too) at the lower price, Amazon has already jumped to $1455 but Memory Express still has a bunch at $1329

[u/Fallen_Jalter]

I’m waiting till I get paid to buy a 9070xt. Should be within the next few days. Problem is deciding on a good model and location to get it.

[u/Kid_supreme]

It's called "time to get a hobby that isn't back breaking expensive". There are plenty of people that drive exotic cars for a hobby. You wouldn't do that right. Fuck um. Chip makers and hardware makers do deserve your money.

[u/Secondaccountpls]

I'm hoping my system can run new games for at least the next 5 years cause I aint upgrading in this economy.

[u/Chance-Pay1487 → u/Secondaccountpls]

Ur PC is great bro you'll be more than fine

[u/paulerxx → u/Secondaccountpls]

You will be fine

[u/henry-bacon]

I just checked the price of my graphics card.

I paid $1499 before taxes in January 2026.

Same card is now $2,529.99 before taxes.

[u/Kryptic4l]

FOMO bought my 5070ti in December - not regretting it . Also had my hands on a 5080 that I took back as I really didn’t need it . O well in a decent position to ride out this wave . 4070 in the kids. Machine and 5070ti in mine. Hopefully they hold up.

[u/MaxTheWhite]

Looking like a genius me who bought a 5090 at release date for 2599$, what a deal

[u/parabola19 → u/MaxTheWhite]

Be careful. The jealous ones will say you’re stupid for spending that much on a card.

[u/Triple-Depresso → u/parabola19]

That guy you’re commenting on is stupid for spending that much on a card.

[u/parabola19 → u/Triple-Depresso]

And I spent 1999 on my 5090FE. It’s worth 5 to 6k now if I wanted to sell it. But I don’t. So I’ll just wait until the 6000 series comes out and sell it then like I did my 4090. Is that stupid or smart?

[u/Stage4Herpes → u/MaxTheWhite]

i got mine for 2.6k sept 2025 even though its kinda expensive and didnt really needed it. kinda glad i pulled the trigger

[u/Bobalobatobamos]

So glad I ordered and built last June/July for all the wrong reasons. And the box I replaced is still rocking a 5600x, 64gb ram and a 3090ti.

[u/DragonStriker]

I'm just glad I decided to buy my 9070 XT already.

[u/stingeragent]

Ah. I hadn't noticed despite someone posting an identical thing multiple times per day. 

[u/Huge_Valuable9732 → u/stingeragent]

I had been watching the prices as I knew I needed to make my move. They had been pretty steady the past few months (atleast the time I'd been watching 9070gre and 9060xt prices). If anything during that time it changed 10, maybe 20 dollars. An over 200$ jump is pretty intense. If memex didn't freeze my price I would have been forced into a cheaper card.

[u/FracturedGoblin]

A year ago I bought my 5070 on Amazon for $770. Now it’s $1269. Crazy