GPU deals in the US: The top cards stateside
GPU deals in the UK: Blighty's best deals
Performance comparison: The GPU hierarchy
MSRP list: The original launch price of the cards
We can happily finally report that there are some really good cheap graphics card deals, and it feels good to be able to type that. Of course, the latest GPUs of Nvidia's RTX 40-series and AMD's RX 7000-series are still prohibitively expensive, but genuinely powerful 1080p graphics cards are available at the sub-$250 mark. And by the way, Intel is definitely in the fray at the budget end of the market now that it's sorted out its drivers.
However, the most exciting thing about the latest GPUs is that they're available and pretty much all available for MSRP. The RX 7900 XT is even under MSRP right now. Though the fact the RTX 4070 Ti's overclocked options are being discounted to the reference price makes that almost a moot point.
There are savings on the last-gen graphics cards, but it's a tougher sell for the RTX 3060 and above. Those cards are still priced high enough to get close to the latest generation of GPUs. We know both AMD and Nvidia will launch more affordable versions of their RDNA 3 and Ada Lovelace architectures over the next few weeks. That makes those expensive old cards even harder to recommend unless the deal is a steal. We are watching to see what happens with RTX 3080 cards after the RTX 4060 Ti launches since we might see some decent deals from retailers looking to clear some shelf space. But again, unless it's a considerable discount, you should hold off for newer, affordable GPUs coming soon.
But there are some excellent options at the mainstream and budget ends of the market, and it will be a lot longer before we get some new-gen cards in the sub-$400 price bracket.
Where are the best graphics card deals?
In the US:
- Amazon - save on current and last-gen Nvidia & AMD graphics cards
- Best Buy - the only place to buy Founders Edition cards in the US
- Walmart - discounts of up to $150
- B&H Photo - save over $100 on select GPUs
- Newegg - discounts across a wide range of Nvidia and AMD graphics cards
In the UK:
- Amazon UK - great deals on last-gen GPUs
- Scan - the home of Nvidia's FE cards in the UK
- Box - save on high-end GPUs
- Ebuyer - AMD cards with serious discounts
- Overclockers - over £100 off last-gen AMD and Nvidia GPUs
- Currys - some genuinely heavy discounts on GeForce GPUs
- Laptops Direct - some great GPU deals, but you have to search...
Graphics card deals
Graphics card deals in the UK
Performance comparison
Every new GPU generation offers new features and possibilities. But rasterized rendering is still the most important metric for general gaming performance across the PC gaming world. Sure, Nvidia GPUs might well be better at the ray tracing benchmarks they more or less instigated, but when it comes to standard gaming performance AMD's latest line up can certainly keep pace.
It's also worth noting that the previous generation of graphics cards do still have something to offer, with something like the GTX 1650 Super able to outpace a more modern RTX 3050 in most benchmarks.
We're not saying you should buy an older card in 2023—AMD's budget RX 7000-series is a much better deal today—but it's worth knowing where your current GPU stacks up, or just knowing the lie of the land. But there is also the fact there will be gaming rigs on sale with older graphics cards over the next few days, and if they're cheap enough they may still be worth a punt as a cheap entry into PC gaming.
We've benchmarked all the latest GPUs of this generation, and have tracked their performance against the previous generation in terms of 3DMark Time Spy Extreme scores. Where we don't have the referential numbers for an older card we have used the average index score from the UL database. These figures track alongside an aggregated 1440p frame rate score from across our suite of benchmarks.
MSRP list
Here's a list of the manufacturer set retail prices (MSRP), or recommended retail price (RRP), for most the latest graphics cards. For the most part, these are the set prices for the stock or reference versions of these cards, if applicable, and not representative of overclocked or third-party graphics cards, which may well be priced higher.
Nvidia
- RTX 4090 - $1,599 | £1,699
- RTX 4080 16GB - $1,199 | £1,269
- RTX 4070 Ti - $799 | ~£799
- RTX 4070 - $599 | £569
- RTX 4060 - $299 | £289
- RTX 3090 Ti - $1,999 | ~£1,999
- RTX 3090 - $1,499 | £1,399
- RTX 3080 Ti - $1,199 | £1,049
- RTX 3080 - $699 | £649
- RTX 3070 Ti - $599 | £529
- RTX 3070 - $499 | £469
- RTX 3060 Ti - $399 | £349 (discontinued)
- RTX 3060 - $329 | £299
- RTX 3050 - $249 | £239
AMD
- RX 7900 XTX - $999 | ~$1050
- RX 7900 XT - $899 | £899
- RX 6950 XT - $1,099 | ~£1,060
- RX 6900 XT - $999 | ~£770
- RX 6800 XT - $649 | ~£600
- RX 6800 - $579 | ~£530
- RX 6750 XT - $549 | ~£530
- RX 6700 XT - $479 | ~£420
- RX 6650 XT - $399 | ~£389
- RX 6600 XT - $379 | ~£320
- RX 6600 - $329 | ~£299
- RX 6500 XT - $199 | ~£180
