The sad state of the memory industry, which is besieged by insanely large memory orders for AI data centers and AI GPUs, has led to increasing prices for gaming graphics cards. Nvidia is purportedly allocating memory based on the amount of money it can make per GB of VRAM, which has made the situation dire for some models. To help you navigate the pricing crisis, we have compiled this GPU index to monitor the availability and pricing of recent graphics card releases from the current and previous generations.
We update this guide twice daily with the best prices in the U.S. for each SKU of GPU from the most recent two generations of Nvidia, AMD, and Intel cards. We're listing the lowest price for an available graphics card, regardless of the manufacturer, so it could be an Asus, Zotac, MSI, Sapphire, Gigabyte, Powercolor, or ASRock-branded card, but it will be the cheapest.
Your PC's graphics card is the heart of a gaming PC and is the component that has the biggest impact on pure gaming performance. The graphics card also helps to power the best gaming monitors. The higher the refresh rate and resolution, the more powerful a GPU you will need to run that screen to its full potential, so if you want to run the latest OLED screen at 4K with a 240Hz refresh rate, you're going to need one of the beefiest high-end cards.
A word of warning, with this list, sometimes the retailers switch to third-party sellers automatically. You must be super vigilant and check sellers to ensure legitimacy. For older generation graphics cards, it can often be difficult to find these cards brand-new and on sale from first-party retailers like Amazon, Newegg, and Best Buy, and they are more often than not listed by third parties. Check prices against the current generation of GPUs to understand if you are getting a good deal, or if you're in fact better off paying a little extra for the very latest graphics cards.
Also, check out our list of the best graphics cards and our GPU benchmark hierarchy to see evergreen performance data to help you make an informed decision when choosing a new GPU for your system.
Nvidia RTX 50-Series: Lowest Graphics Cards Prices
The latest 50-series graphics cards from Nvidia include the current most powerful consumer GPU - Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5090. The RTX 5090 uses the new Blackwell architecture and comes with a massive 32GB of GDDR7 VRAM, and given the current prioritization for models with lower amounts of VRAM to boost profits, it's a problem getting your hands on one at anything even in the vicinity of a reasonable price.
The 50-series range doesn't have the most impressive gen-on-gen performance uplifts on pure rasterization power compared to the 40-series, but it does support new software and tech such as 5th Gen Tensor cores, 4th Gen Ray Tracing cores, DLSS 4.5 with Multi-Frame Generation tech, and Reflex 2. Some of those technologies, like DLSS and frame gen, can help wring the most performance out of those lower-tier cards with less VRAM.
There are 8GB variants of the RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti, available at near MSRP prices, with the higher-tier GPUs like the RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5080 in poor supply at any reasonable price.
Swipe to scroll horizontally GPU Model Best US Price Lowest-Ever U.S. Price MSRP Launch Price GeForce RTX 5090 $3,549 $1,999 $1,999 GeForce RTX 5080 $1,386 $929 $999 GeForce RTX 5070 Ti $1,009 $729 $749 GeForce RTX 5070 $549 $479 $549 GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB $519 $379 $429 GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB $329 $319 $379 GeForce RTX 5060 $299 $279 $299 GeForce RTX 5050 $239 $229 $249
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