I recently looked at the prices of pre built desktop in my country and the PS5 offers better price to performance, if it is jailbroken that is. The prices are ridiculous. I wanted a desktop to play games, the price isn’t worth it. Every month I see an increase in the price.
That price range hasn’t changed much.
The RTX3050 released around $300 MSRP.
The current gen 5050 goes around $300 today.
If anything, the prices of that range went down due to inflation…
A 5050 is 500€. About 400 without tax, but that’s still about 450 murican dollars.
3060 ti launched just over $300 MSRP, the 3050 was actually about 250.
Idk, I think it has changed a lot.
I purchased Gigabyte Radeon RX 9070XT early in 2026 for $950. I ended up returning it due to issues with it passing through in Proxmox. I figured out the issue and purchased it again about 4 months ago for $750. Right now it is going for $1,100.
That seems like a pretty huge swing to me—$350 swinging range within a single calendar year.
Hell, the RTX 3050 is still expensive.
My 3090 costs more than it was new… that is messed up.
That price range was for the XX60 and on a good sale the XX70. The fact that $300 gets you an XX50 is a tragedy.
The 3060 released at $329, the 3070 came out at $499…
The 2060 released at $349, 2070 also at 499.
The 16xx series stood out for being incredibly low priced, but it had no real high end cards.
GTX10 midrange ended at 1060, at $299, 1070 was high-end, at 449.
Meanwhile…
4060 release price was $299, 4070 $599.
5060 release price $299, 5070 $549.
So no, the entry level you’re saying people are mainly buying for gaming… it actually went down in price.
Yes because release price=price people actually buy it at. Also show me a 5060 at $300. The release price used to be the price early adopters had to pay as a premium. Now it’s a discounted price that you can never actually get.
Why am I arguing with you. You’re seriously claiming Graphic card prices didn’t increase. That should have been enough to make me block you and ignore your nonsense.