What an odd day it’s to see a graphics card promoting for lower than MSRP. As of yesterday, the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT might be discovered at German retailer Mindfactory’s on-line retailer for €169—that is round 35% lower than the beneficial retail value.
What’s off about the entire thing, is that that Tom’s Hardware famous the discounted value solely confirmed up after some cookie-based shenanigans revealed it, which leads us to minor a warning about buying GPUs on-line. We’ll get to that in a second.
Within the US and UK, the beneficial retail value for an RX 6500 XT is round $199/£179. Sadly it does not seem the US is on the identical wavelength because the forward-thinking Europeans by way of GPU costs, as a fast test of Newegg and B&H Photo revealed.
As for the UK, you could find a single-fan PowerColor RX 6500 XT for £180 at Overclockers, and Sizzling UK offers has a dual-fan MSI RX 6500 XT going for £190. That is slightly higher, however for a card we scored a 47 within the evaluation you’d assume corporations can be blissful to present slightly low cost.
What the costs in Germany and the UK would possibly level towards, nonetheless, is the beginning if a downward pattern in GPU costs. We have already had information that apparently Nvidia told its partners it will be lowering manufacturing costs, although the respective financial savings seem to solely apply to system integrators (SIs) or PC builders, much less so to the general public.
Nonetheless, we have got 2022 pegged because the yr GPU costs come again all the way down to relative normality. In January, we already noticed GPUs getting cheaper in 2022, and there is discuss that GPU pricing could drop down to ‘normal’ by the summer.
It might be that we’ll even begin to see a downward shift within the value of the best graphics cards, fairly than the already supposed funds playing cards of this present era.
Both means, Tom’s {Hardware} encourages you to test round a web site earlier than confirming your buy on a brand new GPU.
“We visited this particular presents part from the RX 6500 XT search outcomes web page, which had the identical playing cards listed at a better value. Nevertheless, on returning to the search outcomes web page (with seven completely different fashions out there) we observed the costs had dipped to match the particular presents.”
In order tempting as it’s to gobble up a GPU the second you discover one on the market, be cautious, hold your wits about you. There might be offers lurking within the again pages someplace.
