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Things aren’t “back to normal” yet, but GPU prices are steadily falling

Enlarge / The RTX 3080 Ti. (credit: Sam Machkovech) Graphics card prices remain hugely inflated compared to where they were a few years ago, but the good news is that things finally, consistently seem to be getting better and not worse. To quantify this, Jarred Walton at Tom’s Hardware and analyst Jon Peddie have both pulled together data […]

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The reviews are in: AMD’s mining-averse RX 6500 XT also isn’t great at gaming

Enlarge / The Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT, yet another GPU that you probably won’t be able to buy. (credit: Sapphire) When AMD announced its budget-friendly RX 6500 XT graphics card at CES early this month, the company suggested that the product had been designed with limitations that would make it unappealing to the […]

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AMD Radeon RX 6700 review: If another sold-out GPU falls in the forest…

How many Radeon RX 6700XT graphics cards did AMD produce? Well, at least one. [credit: Sam Machkovech ] Look, I’ll level with you: reviewing a GPU amidst a global chip shortage is ludicrous enough to count as dark comedy. Your ability to buy new, higher-end GPUs from either Nvidia or AMD has been hamstrung for […]