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4. It's a complete shift from last year, because there are Black Friday graphics card deals in 2022. This wasn't the case in 2021, or even when most of today's high-end graphics cards launched back in 2020, where the combined arms of the pandemic-constrained chip supply and a resurgent cryptocurrency market meant it was all but impossible to bag a new GPU at MSRP let alone with a healthy discount. But we've already seen from both Amazon Prime Day events that graphics card deals are most definitely back on the menu. That's because of a sudden oversupply of GPUs when the bottom dropped out of the crypto mining world and imminent launches of new generations of both AMD and Nvidia cards took the impetus out of the graphics market. released and the coming very soon, and the newly announced cards landing in December.We're curating all the right here. Sure, these are all expensive cards, all above the $899 mark, and some considerably so. Looking at you Miss. RTX 4090. But they are also offering higher performance over cards similarly priced from the previous generation, which means if you're looking at anything from an RTX 3080 and up, they need to be heavily discounted to make them worthwhile. An listed with some $700 discount is still going to be around $1,300, and absolutely not worth the money at that price. The $1,200 RTX 4080 will perform the same, or better even without the technical beauty of DLSS 3. So, basically, beware hefty discounts on high-end cards-they may still not make for a great Black Friday GPU deal. Down at the more mainstream end of the GPU market, however, it's much easier to deal. There is currently no indication how far into 2023 we're going to get before either the red or green teams launch their affordable new graphics cards. Which means you can be pretty confident in a mainstream GPU purchase this deals season. And there will be some seriously healthy deals, too. Though it's important not to get blinded by needless tribalism when you're after the fastest graphics card for your gaming PC. You may have always bought Nvidia graphics cards, but right now you're far better off spending your cash on an than an . They will deliver equivalent gaming performance, but the AMD card is regularly over $100 cheaper. If you're unsure of where a card might stack up in the GPU performance league, our should give you a rough idea of how they line up.
The RX 6600 wasn't a great card at launch, but you can't ignore it at this price. It's over $100 off its reference MSRP, and frankly you won't find a better deal on any card from the competition that gets anywhere close to this sort of value at this price. If you can't stretch your budget to an RX 6650 XT, this is the way to go for 1080p gaming.Gigabyte Eagle Radeon RX 6600 8GB GDDR6 1,792 shaders 2,491MHz Boost
The Radeon RX 6600 makes a lot more sense at this price point than it did at its peak. You'll enjoy smooth 1080p gaming with the settings cranked up pretty high, and the triple fan cooler will ensure the card runs cool and quiet too. There are more powerful cards out there, but this offers impressive value for money all the same.MSI Mech RX 6650 XT 8GB GDDR6 2,048 shaders 2,669MHz
Again, the smart money is buying AMD graphics cards at the low end of the GPU market. The RX 6650 XT is essentially a new and improved version of the RX 6600 XT, which is both cheaper and faster than the RTX 3060, despite losing out on the memory front. Don't be fooled by that 12GB vs. 8GB thing.Gigabyte Eagle Radeon RX 6650 XT 8GB GDDR6 2,048 shaders 2,635MHz boost
This doesn't sound like such a crazy price from the Newegg listing, but trust me, it's one the best we've seen in, literally, years. The original version of this card launched for $379, competing with the RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3060. Today, the slightly faster RX 6650 XT version is less than the price of most RTX 3050s. Let that sink in for a moment. And it's a triple-fan cooler from a trusted manufacturer.XFX RX 6700 XT Speedster SWFT309 12GB GDDR6 2,560 shaders 2,581MHz Boost
I am so over XFX's naming scheme for its graphics cards but suffice to say that this is almost identical to the one below, but with a slightly lower Boost clock. Though how much difference that will make in gaming will be negligible. This one's cheaper though, which is always important.Gigabyte RX 6700 XT Eagle 12GB GDDR6 2,560 shaders 2,581MHz Boost
This RX 6700 XT is cheaper than the lowest cost RTX 3060 Ti we've found, and delivers the same rasterized gaming performance. For ray tracing, it's admittedly slower, but honestly, you're probably not going to want to turn RT on with the Nvidia card, either. This is a quality mid-range card, with a serious triple-fan cooler to boot. XFX RX 6700 XT Speedster Quick 12GB GDDR6 2,560 shaders 2,622MHz Boost
The Radeon RX 6700 XT is a great mid-range offering that can take the fight to the RTX 3060 Ti and win, or be close enough as to not matter, excluding ray tracing at any rate. Given this tends to be cheaper than Nvidia's card, this is where the sensible money is. Not a huge saving here, but it all helps.Gigabyte RTX 3060 Ti Eagle 8GB GDDR6 4,864 shaders 1,695MHz Boost
This is as cheap as we've found the RTX 3060 Ti anywhere this Prime Day, but with the highest boost clock of any. The price is still frustratingly above MSRP, but this is still a great graphics card right now, and won't let you down even up to top 1440p settings.MSI Ventus GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB GDDR6 4,864 shaders 1,695MHz Boost
It doesn't look like much saving, but there is a premium on Nvidia 30-series GPUs right now. This card is still over the $399 MSRP for the reference RTX 3060 Ti, but perhaps closer to the price point we'd expect of a third-party card such as this. If you're dead set on an Nvidia GPU, the RTX 3060 Ti has been, and pretty much still is, the best value buy of the bunch. It's just not quite as good value as the RX 6700 XT right now.ASRock RX 6800 XT Phantom 16GB GDDR6 4,608 shaders 2,310MHz Boost
When they first launched, the RTX 3080 and RX 6800 XT went head-to-head and could barely be separated. That means, so long as ray tracing isn't right at the top of your must-have list (it really shouldn't be) then opting for the cheaper AMD card is possibly the smarter choice.ASRock Radeon RX 6900 XT Phantom Gaming 16GB GDDR6 5,120 shaders 2,340MHz Boost
The RX 6900 XT is fighting with the best cards that Nvidia's RTX 30-series has to offer, but notably it's a lot less expensive. Whereas Nvidia's cards have failed to drop much in price lately, relative to their MSRP, AMD's have. And that makes the RX 6900 XT worth considering even as AMD's and Nvidia's next-gen arrive. XFX Speedster SWFT 319 RX 6900 XT 16GB GDDR6 5,120 shaders 2,250 MHz Boost
Trust us when we say this card was anything but affordable for most of its life. The MSRP for AMD's RX 6900 XT was originally $999, and this triple-fan XFX is a significantly sizeable model on top of that. Nowadays this card is facing an existential crisis with the arrival of the RX 7900-series, hence the big discounts, but if you want 4K frame rates immediately then this is still a good option. It's basically somewhere between an RTX 3080 and RTX 3090, for far less cash.Reduced PriceWe check over 250 million products every day for the best prices MSI Radeon RX 6650 XT Gaming X 8GB GDDR6 2,048 shaders 2,694MHz Boost
With performance well ahead of the RTX 3060, AMD's RX 6650 XT is the mid-tier card to buy right now. This RX 6650 XT is still some ways pricier than its US equivalent, but it's well under the UK MSRP. With no new budget cards seemingly on the horizon yet, you won't go wrong with this for quality 1080p gaming. Reduced PriceWe check over 250 million products every day for the best prices Every new GPU generation offers new features and possibilities. But rasterized rendering is still the most important metric for general gaming performance across the PC gaming world. Sure, Nvidia GPUs might well be better at the ray tracing benchmarks they more or less instigated, but when it comes to standard gaming performance AMD's latest line up can certainly keep pace. It's also worth noting that the previous generation of graphics cards do still have something to offer, with something like the GTX 1650 Super able to outpace a more modern RTX 3050 in most benchmarks. We're not saying you should buy an older card in 2022, but it's worth knowing where your current GPU stacks up, or just knowing the lie of the land. But there is also the fact there will be gaming rigs on sale with older graphics cards over the next few days, and if they're cheap enough they may still be worth a punt as a cheap entry into PC gaming. We've benchmarked all the latest GPUs of this generation, and have tracked their performance against the previous generation in terms of 3DMark Time Spy Extreme scores. Where we don't have the referential numbers for an older card we have used the average index score from the UL database. These figures track alongside an aggregated 1440p frame rate score from across our suite of benchmarks. Here's a list of the manufacturer set retail prices (MSRP), or recommended retail price (RRP), for most the latest graphics cards. For the most part, these are the set prices for the stock or reference versions of these cards, if applicable, and not representative of overclocked or third-party graphics cards, which may well be priced higher. NvidiaRTX 4090 - $1,599 £1,699RTX 4080 16GB - $1,199 £1,269RTX 3090 Ti - $1,999 ~£1,999RTX 3090 - $1,499 £1,399RTX 3080 Ti - $1,199 £1,049RTX 3080 - $699 £649RTX 3070 Ti - $599 £529RTX 3070 - $499 £469RTX 3060 Ti - $399 £349RTX 3060 - $329 £299RTX 3050 - $249 £239 AMDRX 6950 XT - $1,099 ~£1,060RX 6900 XT - $999 ~£770RX 6800 XT - $649 ~£600RX 6800 - $579 ~£530RX 6750 XT - $549 ~£530RX 6700 XT - $479 ~£420RX 6650 XT - $399 ~£389RX 6600 XT - $379 ~£320RX 6600 - $329 ~£299RX 6500 XT - $199 ~£180 Dave has been gaming since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug on the Colecovision, and code books for the Commodore Vic 20 (Death Race 2000!). He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system around a year later. When he dropped it out of the window. He first started writing for Official PlayStation Magazine and Xbox World many decades ago, then moved onto PC Format full-time, then PC Gamer, TechRadar, and T3 among others. Now he's back, writing about the nightmarish graphics card market, CPUs with more cores than sense, gaming laptops hotter than the sun, and SSDs more capacious than a Cybertruck. More featuresLatest
Black Friday graphics card deals 2022 pixel pushers in stock and discounted
By In a marked difference to previous years, there will actually be Black Friday GPU deals. And in fact, there already are. Black Friday GPU deals Jump straight to the deals you want...1.
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4. It's a complete shift from last year, because there are Black Friday graphics card deals in 2022. This wasn't the case in 2021, or even when most of today's high-end graphics cards launched back in 2020, where the combined arms of the pandemic-constrained chip supply and a resurgent cryptocurrency market meant it was all but impossible to bag a new GPU at MSRP let alone with a healthy discount. But we've already seen from both Amazon Prime Day events that graphics card deals are most definitely back on the menu. That's because of a sudden oversupply of GPUs when the bottom dropped out of the crypto mining world and imminent launches of new generations of both AMD and Nvidia cards took the impetus out of the graphics market. released and the coming very soon, and the newly announced cards landing in December.We're curating all the right here. Sure, these are all expensive cards, all above the $899 mark, and some considerably so. Looking at you Miss. RTX 4090. But they are also offering higher performance over cards similarly priced from the previous generation, which means if you're looking at anything from an RTX 3080 and up, they need to be heavily discounted to make them worthwhile. An listed with some $700 discount is still going to be around $1,300, and absolutely not worth the money at that price. The $1,200 RTX 4080 will perform the same, or better even without the technical beauty of DLSS 3. So, basically, beware hefty discounts on high-end cards-they may still not make for a great Black Friday GPU deal. Down at the more mainstream end of the GPU market, however, it's much easier to deal. There is currently no indication how far into 2023 we're going to get before either the red or green teams launch their affordable new graphics cards. Which means you can be pretty confident in a mainstream GPU purchase this deals season. And there will be some seriously healthy deals, too. Though it's important not to get blinded by needless tribalism when you're after the fastest graphics card for your gaming PC. You may have always bought Nvidia graphics cards, but right now you're far better off spending your cash on an than an . They will deliver equivalent gaming performance, but the AMD card is regularly over $100 cheaper. If you're unsure of where a card might stack up in the GPU performance league, our should give you a rough idea of how they line up.
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The Radeon RX 6600 makes a lot more sense at this price point than it did at its peak. You'll enjoy smooth 1080p gaming with the settings cranked up pretty high, and the triple fan cooler will ensure the card runs cool and quiet too. There are more powerful cards out there, but this offers impressive value for money all the same.MSI Mech RX 6650 XT 8GB GDDR6 2,048 shaders 2,669MHz
Again, the smart money is buying AMD graphics cards at the low end of the GPU market. The RX 6650 XT is essentially a new and improved version of the RX 6600 XT, which is both cheaper and faster than the RTX 3060, despite losing out on the memory front. Don't be fooled by that 12GB vs. 8GB thing.Gigabyte Eagle Radeon RX 6650 XT 8GB GDDR6 2,048 shaders 2,635MHz boost
This doesn't sound like such a crazy price from the Newegg listing, but trust me, it's one the best we've seen in, literally, years. The original version of this card launched for $379, competing with the RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3060. Today, the slightly faster RX 6650 XT version is less than the price of most RTX 3050s. Let that sink in for a moment. And it's a triple-fan cooler from a trusted manufacturer.XFX RX 6700 XT Speedster SWFT309 12GB GDDR6 2,560 shaders 2,581MHz Boost
I am so over XFX's naming scheme for its graphics cards but suffice to say that this is almost identical to the one below, but with a slightly lower Boost clock. Though how much difference that will make in gaming will be negligible. This one's cheaper though, which is always important.Gigabyte RX 6700 XT Eagle 12GB GDDR6 2,560 shaders 2,581MHz Boost
This RX 6700 XT is cheaper than the lowest cost RTX 3060 Ti we've found, and delivers the same rasterized gaming performance. For ray tracing, it's admittedly slower, but honestly, you're probably not going to want to turn RT on with the Nvidia card, either. This is a quality mid-range card, with a serious triple-fan cooler to boot. XFX RX 6700 XT Speedster Quick 12GB GDDR6 2,560 shaders 2,622MHz Boost
The Radeon RX 6700 XT is a great mid-range offering that can take the fight to the RTX 3060 Ti and win, or be close enough as to not matter, excluding ray tracing at any rate. Given this tends to be cheaper than Nvidia's card, this is where the sensible money is. Not a huge saving here, but it all helps.Gigabyte RTX 3060 Ti Eagle 8GB GDDR6 4,864 shaders 1,695MHz Boost
This is as cheap as we've found the RTX 3060 Ti anywhere this Prime Day, but with the highest boost clock of any. The price is still frustratingly above MSRP, but this is still a great graphics card right now, and won't let you down even up to top 1440p settings.MSI Ventus GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB GDDR6 4,864 shaders 1,695MHz Boost
It doesn't look like much saving, but there is a premium on Nvidia 30-series GPUs right now. This card is still over the $399 MSRP for the reference RTX 3060 Ti, but perhaps closer to the price point we'd expect of a third-party card such as this. If you're dead set on an Nvidia GPU, the RTX 3060 Ti has been, and pretty much still is, the best value buy of the bunch. It's just not quite as good value as the RX 6700 XT right now.ASRock RX 6800 XT Phantom 16GB GDDR6 4,608 shaders 2,310MHz Boost
When they first launched, the RTX 3080 and RX 6800 XT went head-to-head and could barely be separated. That means, so long as ray tracing isn't right at the top of your must-have list (it really shouldn't be) then opting for the cheaper AMD card is possibly the smarter choice.ASRock Radeon RX 6900 XT Phantom Gaming 16GB GDDR6 5,120 shaders 2,340MHz Boost
The RX 6900 XT is fighting with the best cards that Nvidia's RTX 30-series has to offer, but notably it's a lot less expensive. Whereas Nvidia's cards have failed to drop much in price lately, relative to their MSRP, AMD's have. And that makes the RX 6900 XT worth considering even as AMD's and Nvidia's next-gen arrive. XFX Speedster SWFT 319 RX 6900 XT 16GB GDDR6 5,120 shaders 2,250 MHz Boost
Trust us when we say this card was anything but affordable for most of its life. The MSRP for AMD's RX 6900 XT was originally $999, and this triple-fan XFX is a significantly sizeable model on top of that. Nowadays this card is facing an existential crisis with the arrival of the RX 7900-series, hence the big discounts, but if you want 4K frame rates immediately then this is still a good option. It's basically somewhere between an RTX 3080 and RTX 3090, for far less cash.Reduced PriceWe check over 250 million products every day for the best prices MSI Radeon RX 6650 XT Gaming X 8GB GDDR6 2,048 shaders 2,694MHz Boost
With performance well ahead of the RTX 3060, AMD's RX 6650 XT is the mid-tier card to buy right now. This RX 6650 XT is still some ways pricier than its US equivalent, but it's well under the UK MSRP. With no new budget cards seemingly on the horizon yet, you won't go wrong with this for quality 1080p gaming. Reduced PriceWe check over 250 million products every day for the best prices Every new GPU generation offers new features and possibilities. But rasterized rendering is still the most important metric for general gaming performance across the PC gaming world. Sure, Nvidia GPUs might well be better at the ray tracing benchmarks they more or less instigated, but when it comes to standard gaming performance AMD's latest line up can certainly keep pace. It's also worth noting that the previous generation of graphics cards do still have something to offer, with something like the GTX 1650 Super able to outpace a more modern RTX 3050 in most benchmarks. We're not saying you should buy an older card in 2022, but it's worth knowing where your current GPU stacks up, or just knowing the lie of the land. But there is also the fact there will be gaming rigs on sale with older graphics cards over the next few days, and if they're cheap enough they may still be worth a punt as a cheap entry into PC gaming. We've benchmarked all the latest GPUs of this generation, and have tracked their performance against the previous generation in terms of 3DMark Time Spy Extreme scores. Where we don't have the referential numbers for an older card we have used the average index score from the UL database. These figures track alongside an aggregated 1440p frame rate score from across our suite of benchmarks. Here's a list of the manufacturer set retail prices (MSRP), or recommended retail price (RRP), for most the latest graphics cards. For the most part, these are the set prices for the stock or reference versions of these cards, if applicable, and not representative of overclocked or third-party graphics cards, which may well be priced higher. NvidiaRTX 4090 - $1,599 £1,699RTX 4080 16GB - $1,199 £1,269RTX 3090 Ti - $1,999 ~£1,999RTX 3090 - $1,499 £1,399RTX 3080 Ti - $1,199 £1,049RTX 3080 - $699 £649RTX 3070 Ti - $599 £529RTX 3070 - $499 £469RTX 3060 Ti - $399 £349RTX 3060 - $329 £299RTX 3050 - $249 £239 AMDRX 6950 XT - $1,099 ~£1,060RX 6900 XT - $999 ~£770RX 6800 XT - $649 ~£600RX 6800 - $579 ~£530RX 6750 XT - $549 ~£530RX 6700 XT - $479 ~£420RX 6650 XT - $399 ~£389RX 6600 XT - $379 ~£320RX 6600 - $329 ~£299RX 6500 XT - $199 ~£180 Dave has been gaming since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug on the Colecovision, and code books for the Commodore Vic 20 (Death Race 2000!). He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system around a year later. When he dropped it out of the window. He first started writing for Official PlayStation Magazine and Xbox World many decades ago, then moved onto PC Format full-time, then PC Gamer, TechRadar, and T3 among others. Now he's back, writing about the nightmarish graphics card market, CPUs with more cores than sense, gaming laptops hotter than the sun, and SSDs more capacious than a Cybertruck. More featuresLatest