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The PC gaming ray tracing obsession began with the first RTX 20 graphics cards released on this day in 2018 — the GeForce RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti led the charge, but games were thin on the ground (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-20 | by Mark Tyson | get NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card → | tags: nvidia turing, geforce rtx 2080, rtx 2080 ti

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AMD's Radeon RX 9070 GRE graphics card returns to its lowest-ever price of $499 — rare deal places this current-generation 12GB GPU below its MSRP launch price (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-15 | by Stewart Bendle | get Gigabyte Radeon RX 9070 GRE GPU → | tags: amd, radeon rx 9070 gre, gddr6

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What is MSI mode on Windows PCs and does it speed up your GPU? (engadget.com)

2026-09-14 | by Luke James | get Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM → | tags: msi, pci 3.0, msi-x

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Redditor finds RTX 3070 graphics cards worth $5,000 in abandoned crypto mining rigs (techspot.com)

2026-09-14 | by Kishalaya Kundu | get NZXT Kraken Elite liquid CPU cooler → | tags: rtx 3070, crypto mining, zotac

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Desktop graphics card shipments hit four-year high of 12.5 million despite increasing prices — Nvidia takes 90% share as gamers rush to beat looming price spikes (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-11 | by Anton Shilov | get MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti graphics card → | tags: nvidia, graphics cards, jon peddie research

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Discrete graphics card sales hit four-year record despite soaring memory prices — AMD gains market share as notebook graphics carry the market (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-04 | by Anton Shilov | get AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card → | tags: jon peddie research, discrete gpu, amd

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A standard RTX 5090 now costs $5,090, making Nvidia's flagship price painfully appropriate (techspot.com)

2026-09-01 | by Rob Thubron | get ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 5090 OC → | tags: nvidia, rtx 5090, asus rog

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Graphics Card Prices Are Rising Fast (Again), and GeForce Is Taking the Biggest Hit (techspot.com)

2026-08-31 | by Tim Schiesser | get ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 5070 → | tags: geforce, gpu, graphics card

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Graphics Card Prices Are Rising Fast (Again), and GeForce Is Taking the Biggest Hit (techspot.com)

2026-08-31 | by Tim Schiesser | get ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 5070 → | tags: nvidia, geforce, gpu pricing

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DLSS 5 has already been ported to work on RTX 4000 Series graphics cards — incompatible CUDA instructions get patched to work on previous-gen hardware (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-28 | by Sayem Ahmed | get GeForce RTX 5070 Ti graphics card → | tags: dlss 5, nvidia, rtx 4000 series

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AI is helping Linux bring 25-year-old 3dfx Voodoo3 graphics cards back to life (techspot.com)

2026-08-24 | by Alfonso Maruccia | get UGREEN VGA to HDMI converter adapter with audio → | tags: linux, 3dfx voodoo3, qemu

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PC Partner warns of rising GPU prices and budget card shortages — analyst suggests makers are hiking prices beyond memory costs (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-17 | by Anton Shilov | tags: amd, inno3d, graphics cards

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GPU thieves replaced RTX 5080 cards with RTX 3060s in Chinese esports hotels until a blackout gave them away (techspot.com)

2026-08-17 | by Rob Thubron | tags: rtx 5080, esports hotels, china

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The only current-generation graphics card on sale below MSRP — AMD's Radeon RX 9070 GRE GPU with 12GB of VRAM returns to its lowest-ever price of $499 (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-10 | by Stewart Bendle | tags: amd, radeon rx 9070, rdna 4

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Grab an entire RTX 5090 PC for just $380 more than the standalone graphics card — save $1,550 off Alienware's Area-51 gaming rig (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Stewart Bendle | tags: best, deals, gaming

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Nvidia sells RTX 50-series GPUs at MSRP during QuakeCon 2026 — graphics cards sold at launch prices more than a year after release are now considered an attraction (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jowi Morales | tags: msrp, nvidia, price

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Want to Buy Nvidia’s Graphics Cards at MSRP? Head On Down to Grapevine, Texas (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: close, close rtx, need spend

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AMD doubles data center revenue year over year, but gaming revenue plunged by 31% — CEO Lisa Su says prices have 'weighed on' consumer demand but is 'optimistic' about client market (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-04 | by Jake Roach | tags: amd, ryzen, graphics cards

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More GPU price hikes loom for Asia as Japanese distributor warns of new increases — CFD Sales signals 20% to 40% higher prices on Gigabyte graphics card orders starting this month (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-04 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: gigabyte graphics cards, cfd sales inc., gpu price hikes

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Graphics Cards Could Get Even More Expensive, and It’s Not Just Nvidia (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: nvidia, graphics cards, pc gaming

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Beat the AI price surge on PC hardware — leverage Newegg combo deals, track Amazon prices, and shop refurb outlets like Woot (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Ben Stockton | tags: newegg, amazon, pc hardware

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Absurd GPU Pricing Update Mid-2026: What Graphics Cards Cost Around the World (techspot.com)

2026-07-31 | by Tim Schiesser | tags: nvidia, geforce rtx 5050, geforce rtx 5060

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Nvidia's fastest graphics cards get US price increase at Best Buy, Amazon — Astral RTX 5080 now costs more than 5090's MSRP, flagship card now commands more than $4,300 (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-30 | by Kunal Khullar | tags: nvidia, rtx 5080, rtx 5090

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RCade: The Arcade Cabinet with CI/CD Deployment, Custom Graphics Card for CRT [video] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: rcade, arcade cabinet, ci/cd deployment

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4GB graphics cards are back (theverge.com)

2026-07-28 | by Stevie Bonifield | tags: asrock, rx 9050, amd

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Graphics card prices jump by up to 20% in China as shops stockpile Nvidia and AMD GPUs (techspot.com)

2026-07-28 | by Rob Thubron | tags: nvidia, amd, gddr6

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MSI and Colorful raise Nvidia RTX 50-series prices in China by up to 59% across the entire lineup — change in distributer pricing suggests GPU price hikes are on the way (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-27 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: nvidia, msi, rtx 50-series

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XFX Radeon RX 9070 XT drops to its lowest price of the summer — save $90 on AMD's flagship RDNA 4 graphics card (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-26 | by Kunal Khullar | tags: amd, rx 9070 xt, rdna 4

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PlayStation 3 emulator adds support for ATI Radeon HD 2000, 3000, and 4000 series graphics cards on Linux — 20-year-old HD 2600 crumbles, can only run Portal at 13 fps in 273p (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-22 | by Mark Tyson | tags: rpcs3, ati radeon hd 2000, linux

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Unannounced Nvidia RTX 50 Super GPUs appear in Seasonic PSU calculator — unreleased graphics cards shown with 10-17% higher TGP over original models (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-07 | by Jeffrey Kampman | get Nvidia RTX 50 Super GPU → | tags: higher, performance, power