What is your comfortable price range for a graphics card?

[AusWolf]

We're all witnessing skyrocketing GPU prices all across the board for one reason or another. Discussing those reasons is not the topic here - neither is your financial situation.

The question is the amount of money you're comfortable to spend on a brand new GPU in these troubled times, regardless of the overall contents of your wallet.

 

[Hyderz]

I buy based on reviews, performance that it offers and the price… it can be expensive as long it performs very well for its price…. I’m in the stage in life where I can buy any tier gpu but I’m not about to drop money on every gen top tier cards

 

[Sithaer]

Used to be in the 250-500 range but I had to up it cause it just wasn't realistic anymore or I would hardly get any upgrades even from the second hand market.
600 maybe 700 I could do every 3 years or so after selling/trading in my previous GPU but thats about my limit.

 

[TheLostSwede]

Used to be in the 250-500 range but I had to up it cause it just wasn't realistic anymore or I would hardly get any upgrades even from the second hand market.
600 maybe 700 I could do every 3 years or so after selling/trading in my previous GPU but thats about my limit.

In all fairness, everything has gotten more expensive with inflation, but yeah, anything north of US$750 is not happening.

 

[Red Hood]

£250 - £500 (I may end up going over that for a 9070 but in no hurry, its only for games after all)

 

[PLAfiller]

I have always been a scavenger and feed on what gets on the bottom of the tank, second hand. Used to be €150 which would easily get me an RX 5700 XT a while ago, but no longer the case. I upped it to €250-300. But after this price point I wouldn't go second hand. I mean....I don't need the best and you can get a new card with two year warranty...so yeah, no point.

Depends on country too. Denmark are notorious for their electronics pricing

 

[Onasi]

For personal use - anything that doubles (at least) the performance of the card I already have at, at most, 500 dollar price. And I mean actual 500 dollar price, not the Mickey Mouse phantasmal MSRP bullshit we are having these days. Don’t care about rising prices due to inflation and world governments failing to manage economies - just means I have to update less often, which is hardly a bad thing since my backlog is massive and freshly released AAA slop usually doesn’t interest me anyway.

Edit: Oh, and I also stick to cards up to 250W. Not interested in space heaters.

 

[Zazigalka]

599 euro/200w tdp preferably
650/250w is okay
700/300w only if there's nothing of interest to be bought under that

 

[N/A]

1K for 66% perf of the flagship

 

[wNotyarD]

In a perfect world where yesterday's flagship performance becomes today's mainstream, I'd be glad with the $600 range (also assuming resellers observe such MSRP).

 

[Macro Device]

Spouting booty for that scallawagy buffoonery? Am ah whah, a grog blossom with a manowar scale allergy to plunder? Nay hell!

Jokes aside, I don't look at the price, I only look at what it offers. If a 2 grand GPU can't do what I want then, y'know, it won't become any better if discounted to $500. It's still incapable of completing the task.

 

[AusWolf]

Spouting booty for that scallawagy buffoonery? Am ah whah, a grog blossom with a manowar scale allergy to plunder? Nay hell!

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Jokes aside, I don't look at the price, I only look at what it offers. If a 2 grand GPU can't do what I want then, y'know, it won't become any better if discounted to $500. It's still incapable of completing the task.

Haha.

Let's assume that there is a GPU for sale that does what you want. How much would you be comfortable to give for it?

 

[Macro Device]

How much would you be comfortable to give for it?

50 percent of what they're asking for it plus VAT minus VAT. Or, if you like, a dozen hundred dollars.

 

[AusWolf]

50 percent of what they're asking for it

Nice!

 

[DaemonForce]

Given the RX 580 launched at $229 and I struggled to get mine even at $400+...
And that's the last card to ever reach POST in either computer...Yeah.

Months of fighting newegg playing keepaway with orders outlines my comfort zone real well.
The months of back and forth (failures) trying to move to the 7900XT everywhere between $635-768...Not worth it.
For what I do (1080p144 desktop, 2K90 VR, various 3D, streaming...) I have no business going $500+ for any reason.

 

[Chomiq]

For a true flagship? $1k. For a enthusiast tier? $750.

 

[Fokker]

$700-800 for top-end/flagship gaming cards. Anything north of $800 just becomes paying for two computers to build one. The price to performance doesn't exist to justify these $1000+ cards.

 

[Todestrieb]

I will refuse to go over USD$1000 equivalent. And I would love to have it last for a looooooong time.

 

[Apocalypsee]

Up to $500 or around RM2500, cost of living is expensive I can't spend on this hobby much anymore. If AMD really goes for -$50 off nvidia card for their 9070 series then I'm not buying, rather have nvidia card tbh but I won't be buying 5000 series either they were obnoxiously expensive. I won't be buying another 8GB card either, or 10GB or 12GB. I barely play new games so unless there is a game I'm looking forward to that requires more graphics muscle I kept my current card. The game that I might interested in this year, if they slow it down a notch, is the upcoming Doom.

 

[Bomby569]

around 500 euros, preferably lower, 450 is the sweet spot for me

 

[ShrimpBrime]

I'm at the 500 to 750 range.

Once we start getting closer to 1000$ for entry level 1440P cards, I'm out.

There's so many other things to purchase and plenty of other hobbies. This hobby isn't worth putting a new jacket on jacket man. Fk that guy.

 

[eidairaman1]

At most 550

 

[droopyRO]

600 maybe 700 I could do every 3 years or so after selling/trading in my previous GPU but thats about my limit.

The same for me too. I had a 3060Ti sold it for 300 Euros, bought a opened box 4070 for 600 Euros. With my current financial situation, i could pay about 300$/Euros every 2-3 years to upgrade my GPU, if it's worth it from a performance stand point.
If the 9070XT is worth it, i could probably sell the 4070 for about 400 Euros and add 250-300 Euros, if they will sell in stores close to the MSRP price.

 

[JorgeRod]

I bought my 2080 rtx for €860 shortly after they came out and the current 3080 rtx for €830 before mining started. I skipped the 4000 series and will probably skip the 5000 series. +1500 € is too much for the 5080 rtx.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

As long as the perfomance justifies the price I'm ok with it.

I basically just look at what offers me more than what I have preferably 50% ish at a price I'm willing to spend.

that being said I can't even remember the last generation I was like wow these are so awesome what a steal. It's been more like well that's the perfomance I want price sucks but whatever.