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Select AMD And Nvidia Graphics Cards Hit 60-Day Low Prices

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The graphics card market is kind of insane right now, but if you've shopped for one in the last few months you already know this. Prices swing wildly -- often upward -- on a daily basis, driven by retailer inflation, mining demand and memory shortages. Both AMD and Nvidia have said they're willing and able to produce as many cards as the market demands, but memory shortages have put a damper on those ambitions. Fortunately, I'm starting to see select GPU prices coming back down to earth.

ZOTAC

I randomly popped over to PCPartPicker to check on prices, and noticed a few eye-catching drops. In fact, a few midrange and high-end Radeon and GeForce cards at 60-day lows. Whether or not they'll dip lower in the immediate future is anybody's guess, but time should certainly improve the situation.

Are we back at MSRP? Oh hell no. But a month ago I was writing about it being surprisingly more affordable to outright buy a pre-built system with one of these GPUs in it rather than build your own. Fortunately that argument is a bit weaker today, but it's an argument that changes depending on which cards and which board partner you're looking at.

PCPartPicker

Here a few selections that stood out:

XFX GTS XXX Edition Radeon RX 580 4GB: $399

Where: Amazon.com

XFX

60 days ago the price of this card on Newegg was obscene: $606. Today it can be found at both Amazon and Newegg for $399. I supplied the Amazon link because it's actually in stock with free shipping. It sounds absurd, but a quality overclocked RX 580 with a backplate at $400 seems like a "bargain" when analyzing the recent past.

Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 570 4GB: $339

Where: Newegg.com

Sapphire

60 days ago the cheapest you could find Sapphire's Nitro+ variant of the Radeon RX 570 in stock was $474. A couple weeks after that it actually skyrocketed to an unbelievable $773. Right now it's a "reasonable" (again, I'm trying to adjust my definitions of words like that) $339 on Newegg. Actually in stock. Actually shipping. Which is why I'm rushing to complete this article so that status doesn't change!

ZOTAC GTX 1070Ti AMP! Extreme Edition: $699

Where: Newegg.com

ZOTAC

On the Nvidia side, ZOTAC's AMP! Extreme take on the GeForce GTX 1070Ti is slowly hovering back down to earth. 30 days ago this sucker was just shy of $1000. Today it's sitting at $699 on Newegg. Again, we're talking about relative price drops being attractive, but certainly not attractive when viewing price tags at launch. Still, it's progress.


If you're shopping around and feeling patient, head over to PCPartPicker.com. On their price drop page, you can set up alerts and be notified when your GPU of choice drops to a price you're willing to pay. They're updated roughly once an hour.

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