Today we’re taking a look at used vs. new GPU prices, and whether buying a used graphics card is worth your while.
Graphics Cards are Expensive in 2023 – Can Used GPUs Come to the Rescue?
- Daniel Dromboski
- 2nd Nov 2023
- Hardware Sales
Posts Tagged Under: GPU Pricing
The “A Hit and Three Misses” Update
- The Falcon
- 2nd Aug 2023
- Logical Increments Updates
There have not been that many major releases recently, so this will be a small update that mostly includes items we are not adding to our chart. And before we get to those items: All three non-added items are due to bad pricing. They are great items if they were cheaper, but we at […]
PC Parts are Headed in the Wrong Direction
- The Falcon
- 13th Jun 2023
- PC Hardware
Greetings. This article was painful to write. Every section hurt, and every section gets progressively more painful. But the truth can hurt, so read on. The consumer PC world is headed down a bad path: There is a major focus by PC part manufacturers to produce extremely expensive and overpowered products, with the mid-tiers and […]
The ‘Fair Winds Have Come’ Pre-Update
- The Falcon
- 21st Sep 2022
- Logical Increments Updates
Can you feel it? The change for PC builders, not very subtle, happening even as I type these words? The clouds have lifted. The sun is shining. The news is good. It is as follows:
The Happy Days GPU Update
- The Falcon
- 2nd Aug 2022
- Logical Increments Updates
At last! All modern GPUs are available for purchase, new, for MSRP. No more crying as you pay 2x or 3x the recommended price for a card. No more heartbreak as you buy a used card that has been sitting in a crypto farm for 2 years. No more sad checking on crypto prices, hoping […]
The (GPU) Spring after a Desolate Winter
- The Falcon
- 4th Apr 2022
- Logical Increments Updates
After a full eternity of waiting (two years), GPU prices have returned to something that closely resembles sanity. In-stock, decently priced, current-generation graphics cards are once again linked in almost every tier of our PC building chart!
The “GPU Prices are Not Improving Fast Enough” Update
- The Falcon
- 16th Sep 2021
- Logical Increments Updates
GPU prices started going up (roughly) in March of 2020 when all hardware went up in price or went out-of-stock. It happened slowly at first, then faster and faster, until widespread unavailability became the norm! During the worst of the worst, it was so bad that you could not buy most graphics cards, no matter […]
Previous-gen Graphics Card Showdown: RX 5500 XT vs. GTX 1650 Super
- Boaz
- 9th Feb 2021
- PC Hardware Comparison
Things are not looking ideal for anyone planning to build a PC. The world is in a global pandemic, and supply deficiencies are mixed with high demand. One of the categories that is affected the most is the GPU market: even the cheapest graphics cards from the latest generation are inflated in price to over […]
GPU Pricing Insanity: What Will Logical Increments Do?
- The Falcon
- 24th Jan 2018
- Logical Increments Updates
After some very brief relief around the 2017 holidays, graphics card prices continue on the path of going absolutely insane. We had a cryptocoin-induced inflation back in late 2013, but it was somewhat mild, and only lasted a couple of months. We had a second inflation in 2017, where the price hikes were higher, and […]
Cryptocurrency and Graphics Cards: GPU Prices Returning to Normal
- The Falcon
- 19th Nov 2017
- PC Hardware
After months of dealing with graphics card shortages and price spikes due to unsustainable demand from cryptocurrency miners, some very welcome headlines have recently come our way: AMD CEO Sees “Leveling Off” in Cryptocurrency Mining Demand Cryptocurrency Mining Sales Cool in Q3, Says NVIDIA