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October 2026 GPU Price/Performance Rankings: Prices Rose on 59 of 81 GPUs, and a Resale RTX 5090 Now Costs 2.4x MSRP

By Scott Willeke - October 1, 2026

Best bang for your buck GPUs ranked by $/FPS (1440p and 4K), $/INT8 TOP (inference), and $/TFLOP (training). Prices rose on 59 of 81 GPUs in September. The RTX 5090's best resale deal reached $4,795, 140% over MSRP, new RTX 50 cards on Amazon rose faster than resale, and the RTX 3060 Ti still leads 1440p value at $1.19/FPS.

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September 2026 GPU Price/Performance Rankings: Resale Is Now Cheaper Than Retail on Every RTX 50 Card

By Scott Willeke - September 1, 2026

Best bang for your buck GPUs ranked by $/FPS (1440p and 4K), $/INT8 TOP (inference), and $/TFLOP (training). Every RTX 50 card rose in August and all of them now cost less on the resale market than at retail. The used RTX 30 series is the one corner still getting cheaper: RTX 3060 Ti leads 1440p value at $1.05/FPS and the RTX 3070 fell 16% to $177.

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August 2026 GPU Price/Performance Rankings: RTX 50 Premiums Cool Toward MSRP as the Mid-Range Firms Up

By Scott Willeke - August 1, 2026

Best bang for your buck GPUs ranked by $/FPS (1440p and 4K), $/INT8 TOP (inference), and $/TFLOP (training). In July most of the RTX 50 lineup settled at or below MSRP (only the 5090 still carries a real premium, ~44% over), while the mid-range firmed up (RX 6800 XT +22%, RTX 3060 +16%). RTX 3060 Ti leads 1440p value at $1.13/FPS.

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July 2026 Best GPUs for Gaming, AI Inference, and LLM Training: Price/Performance Rankings

By Scott Willeke - July 1, 2026

Best bang for your buck GPUs ranked by $/FPS (1440p and 4K), $/INT8 TOP (inference), and $/TFLOP (training). June was a buyer's market: mainstream cards fell ~20% MoM, the RTX 5090 premium cooled from 83% to 52% over MSRP, and used Ampere/RDNA2 cards hit new lows. RTX 3060 Ti leads 1440p value at $1.13/FPS.

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June 2026 Best GPUs for Gaming, AI Inference, and LLM Training: Price/Performance Rankings

By Scott Willeke - June 2, 2026

Best bang for your buck GPUs ranked by $/FPS (1440p and 4K), $/INT8 TOP (inference), and $/TFLOP (training). RTX 5070 Ti drops 9% below MSRP and becomes the best practical training value. H100 resale crashes -49% MoM. Intel Arc B570 first card under $1/INT8 TOP.

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GPU Market February 2026: RTX 50 Deals Exist but Median Buyer Still Pays 44-82% Over MSRP

By Scott Willeke - February 1, 2026

A year after launch, patient RTX 50 buyers can find near-MSRP deals, but the median listing is still 44-82% above MSRP. Used GPU prices are split: budget cards rising, high-end falling. Data center AI GPUs surged 20-30%. Dollar-per-frame rankings for CS2, best AI GPUs on a budget, and buy/wait/sell recommendations.

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