We're finally seeing the end of the GPU shortage

 The thought of finding an affordable graphics card in today's ever-fluctuating market feels almost impossible, but it would seem that prices for highly-coveted GPUs are finally starting to recover in some areas of the world, to the point where some new cards have been spotted for under their original MSRP.  Mindfactory, a trusted tech retailer based in Germany, posted a page full of deals this past weekend that included a handful of AMD Radeon 6500 XT cards from third-party manufacturers.  Both the ASRock Radeon RX 6500XT Challenger ITX and the Gigabyte Radeon RX 6500 XT Eagle were available at €199 (around $225 / £165 / AU$310) when originally published, but Tom's Hardware notes in its own coverage that the Gigabyte model has since increased to €229 (around $255 / £190 / AU$355). 


For context, the MSRP for the reference AMD Radeon 6500 XT in Germany is €209 (around $235 / £175 / AU$325), though it's not a GPU we would recommend as an 'upgrade' unless you have some seriously outdated kit in your current PC. The 6500 XT struggles to compete with much older graphics cards, so if you're still rocking something like an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 or even an AMD Radeon RX 580 then you'd actually be better sticking to what you have for now.

 

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Still, this makes for a great first GPU, especially if you're planning to run low-demand games and applications. Better yet, this also indicates a few other important things that are happening within the market, such as improvements to inventory and a general decline in pricing across most graphics cards (though we were unable to find any other accounts of them dipping below their original MSRP).  Will this be a GPU you'll be chasing down to play 4K games or run demanding 3D applications? Probably not, but it bodes well for anyone who has been keeping their eyes out for more expensive hardware such as the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 or RTX 3060. With any luck, prices across most current-gen AMD and Nvidia GPUs will have dropped to an affordable level before we see RDNA 3 and the RTX 4000 series make an appearance.

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