Perhaps you saw our in -depth reviews of the fresh RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 Nvidia and you decided that instead it will be better to spend money on the RTX 40 card. RDNA 4 AMD cards will not be here for the next month, so you decided to go to hunt for a nice RTX 4070 Super or RX 7900 XT. However, if you stick to the main American retail sellers, you will get a lot of nothing. Err, Hello Amd and Nvidia? Where are all your graphics cards?
I have spent the last two hours to update our GPU offers, hunting for all offers of graphics cards in Amazon, Newgg, Best Buy, Walmart and B&H Photo to find the best offers at AMD Radeon, Intel Arc and Nvidia GeForce Models. Instead of discussing in detail every model I was looking for, let me just show you this plain summary:
- RTX 5090: Sold out (or steep)
- RTX 5080: Sold out (or steep)
- RTX 4090: Sold out (or steep)
- RTX 4080 great: Sold out (or steep)
- RTX 4070 Ti Super: Sold out (or steep)
- RTX 4070 great: Sold out (or steep)
- RTX 4070: Sold out (or steep)
- RTX 4060 is: $ 400 @ Amazon
- RTX 4060: USD 295 @ newgg
- RX 7900 XTX: Sold out (or steep)
- RX 7900 XT: 730 $ @ Amazon
- RX 7900 GR: Sold out (or steep)
- RX 7800 XT: $ 490 @ Amazon
- RX 7700 XT: $ 400 @ Amazon
- RX 7600: $ 260 @ walmart
- ARC B580: Sold out (or steep)
- ARC B570: 230 USD @ newgg
Yes, that’s right. The entire supply of medium or higher level graphics cards has almost disappeared. There is a zipper there, nothing, nyet, nada, now. Well, it’s okay Some The GPU that you can find, but are either sold in the well by IAS, or the retailers in question do not have inspiring reviews.
If I intend to spend more than $ 500 on a graphics card, I want to be sure that the return policy is as solid as steel and that I will recover money if I get a literal brick. The situation is not very better here in Great Britain, although you can still get the RX 7900 XTX or RTX 4080 Super at a price below MSRP.
So what’s going on, hell? Why is graphics cards missing? The reason is plain (ISH): AMD and Nvidia decided to give up the production of their “last generation” cards long before a lot of fresh models could replace them. The sale of distribution centers and main retailers was extremely high, probably because they expected many fresh cards in January.
But in fact we received the almost paper premiere from the RTX 50 series, with such a number of RTX 5090 and 5080 cards that the retail shelves were naked in just minutes of sales. In some cases, the shelves were empty before this point because they were already sold. On the other hand, AMD irritated with RDNA 4 in front of our eyes to CES, but then it took a few weeks before it finally announced that the cards themselves would be ready until the beginning of March.
Meanwhile, players for PCs took a look at the prices of Blackwell cards, blinked several times, and then fled to get the remaining stocks of RTX 40 cards at a higher level. Do you want to take the RTX 4070 variant? I’m afraid, but you Power Get a rather nice RX 7800 XT for a reasonable price. It’s a GPU that I regularly apply to test the performance of the game and he is a real mid -class graphics card soldier.
The obvious question that should be asked at the moment: “When will the GPU stocks be better?” Unfortunately, no one has a specific answer to this question, but I suspect that it will not be for some time, and March will be the earliest. Then we will be able to get the Radeon RX 9070 series, but if AMD and its partners cannot satisfy demand, we will return to the square.
The RTX 5070 and 5070 NVIDIA is expected to be issued at the end of February, but after the lack of 5080 cards on the shelves (well, no reasonably priced 5080 cards), I’m not too positive about 5070 supplies. Good.
And don’t look for Intel to save the day, because it can barely get a sufficient number of ARC 580 cards to satisfy your demand. Slightly less forceful b570 Is Available, but it is a card at the budget level, although it is not budget enough compared to the same price, but apparently a better ARC B580. Intel simply has nothing to offer the average/mainstream market and it probably won’t be for a long time (if at all).
All this means that any graphics card you currently have will have to last longer. I would avoid a second -hand descent if you have a fairly aged graphic processor and you hope to choose a low-cost RTX 30 series, for example, when prices have increased due to the lack of fresh models.
The truth is that AMD and NVIDIA earn gazilones dollars on the market of data centers, game graphics cards are simply without work for income sheets. Fancy fresh graphic architecture is good for headers, but it is simply not where the money is. Nice for chip giants, rotten for players on the PC. Probably the same as always.
