Still, waiting and seeing won’t hurt, as we can’t see things going up on the Nvidia GPU front. Nvidias new Ampere architecture, which supersedes Turing, offers both improved power efficiency and performance. You may recall Team Green saying it’s going to use a layered strategy of next-gen and current-gen GPUs being on sale together in the nearer future, and so movement on the mid-range and lower-end RTX graphics cards may be more limited after these initial bigger drops following the Lovelace announcement. That said, Nvidia’s incoming Lovelace cards will kick off with just the RTX 4090 and a pair of RTX 4080 variants, so there won’t be an RTX 4070 or 4060 for some time yet – not until early 2023, most likely. With these reductions happening over the span of a week, it’s likely prudent to see what another week or two brings. Or indeed, you could just wait – as pricing may well drop further yet. Or you could look at an AMD RX 6600 as an alternative, which is an excellent value proposition right now as Tom’s points out, if you’re willing to consider going Team Red. But really with the RTX 3060 Ti not costing all that much more, you’d be better off springing the extra cash to get that additional performance, something we made clear in our review of the 3060 Ti. And the RTX 3060 remaining the same price is likely a reflection of how popular this graphics card is right now, as one of the more affordable models. The flagship RX 6950 XT going up in price can be explained – it has just come off sale, as Tom’s Hardware observes.Īs for the RTX 3090 Ti, which didn’t go up, but also didn’t drop, its price staying the same is likely due to the fact that this flagship GPU has already come down a long way in recent times. What’s odd is that some of AMD’s budget offerings have spiked upwards, and there’s not really any explanation for that which comes to mind. 1) HDCP Support Y Power Model Name GeForce RTX 3060 GAMING 12G Graphics Processing Unit NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Interface PCI Express. What’s also very welcome are the reductions in more affordable Nvidia graphics cards, which have pretty stubbornly resisted price decreases thus far, such as the RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3050, both dipping by around 10%. This is great news overall, with an average price drop across all current-gen GPUs of 3.5%. There were exceptions with AMD graphics cards though, at the top-end and low-end, with the RX 6950 XT flagship actually increasing in price by 4%, and the RX 6500 XT going up by 5%, with the RX 6400 rising by a substantial 9%.

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