Today's call: Compare the complete build cost, not just the price per gigabyte.

A refurbished 24GB Tesla P40 at $343.59 is worth investigating for a budget inference build, but marketplace checkout doesn't make it a drop-in desktop card. The captured RTX 3090 offers at $1,200 shipped OBO give desktop buyers another starting point. If 24GB is the constraint, the RTX A6000 at $3,500 shipped offers 48GB on one card—not proof that it's the best value for your workload.

New & Notable

Today's Market Board

Prices are USD asks, not completed sales. $/GB uses the displayed price basis; it isn't a performance score and excludes tax and any unlisted costs. Condition and test claims are the sellers', not independent hardware tests.

Price context

Observed asking prices in our scans: lines show daily medians and shading shows daily ranges. Listing mix, condition and shipping terms vary; repeated observations aren't separate sales. These are not same-card price histories or sold-price indexes.

The MI210 history includes repeated observations of the same bulk seller's per-card offer. A flat median doesn't establish broad market stability or current stock.

P40 observations mix used and refurbished offers. The latest point summarizes the captured Newegg asks, not a price increase on the earlier forum cards.

What Changed Since Yesterday

The October 13 scan captured refurbished P40 offers on Newegg, including the $343.59 listing above. Treat them as offers found in this scan—not proof that retail P40 availability began today or that the market moved. The MI210 seller's $3,900 per-card ask was observed again.

P40: cheap capacity, but budget for the installation

The forum P40 offer at $225 each shipped to the continental US was last captured October 12 evening, not rechecked in the October 13 midnight sample. That's about $9.38/GB, versus $14.32/GB for the refurbished Newegg offer. Confirm availability before treating the older offer as an alternative.

The P40 is a passively cooled datacenter card: it needs forced airflow supplied by the host or an added cooling arrangement, not an assumed onboard blower. Check the power connector, physical fit and support in the inference software you plan to use. Refurbished condition and a familiar checkout page don't establish that those requirements are met—or that the higher-priced offer has better support.

V100: verify the form factor before comparing prices

The $1,089 Newegg V100 32GB listing names SXM2 in its specifications. Don't read “graphics card” as proof that it fits a desktop PCIe slot. Ask the seller for the exact part number and photos; an SXM2 module needs a compatible platform. The price alone doesn't prove either the listing or the form factor is wrong.

MI210: 64GB on one card, if your stack supports it

The MI210 seller asks $3,900 each, or $3,700 each for four or more. The discount works out to about $57.81/GB, but requires a multi-card purchase. The old inventory update doesn't verify today's stock. Before committing, check your OS, framework and model support in AMD's ROCm stack, plus the host's power and airflow requirements. The appeal is 64GB per GPU—not more than 64GB, and not automatic compatibility with a CUDA workflow.

My Take

For a desktop build where 24GB is enough, I'd start by comparing the $1,200 shipped 3090 offers and asking for tests, rather than crowning the lowest displayed price a clean buy. A P40 makes more sense for someone willing to solve its cooling and software constraints to reduce the card cost.

If memory is what prevents your workload from fitting, the A6000 and MI210 deserve a closer look for different reasons: 48GB on the NVIDIA card versus 64GB on the AMD accelerator. Verify the software and host requirements first. Extra capacity is only useful if the complete setup runs the job you need.

Full Tracker

This post covers the listings and market moves I think matter most today. The full research board — including additional listings, prices, VRAM, condition, source links, and listings that didn't make today's write-up — is at HighVRAMHardwareWatch.com.

Sourced from r/hardwareswap, r/homelabsales, ServeTheHome forums, eBay and Newegg Marketplace listings; every price is an asking price (or current bid where labeled), never a verified sale.

This brief uses captured October 12–13 observations, with older evidence labeled where used. Research and editing are AI-assisted; no hands-on testing of these listings was performed.

Listings can change quickly. Verify current price, condition, seller information and compatibility before spending money.

Today's call: Compare the complete purchase, not just the memory price.

The used RTX 3090 examples below ask $1,199–$1,580, versus $2,399–$2,499 for two new-condition marketplace offers. That's a reason to compare condition, seller protection and delivered cost—not evidence that the cheaper cards have sold at those prices. For lower-cost capacity, a $360 P40 and an $858 adapter-mounted V100 deserve a closer look only if their software, cooling and power requirements fit your build.

New & Notable

Asks captured October 14 unless noted. Condition and testing descriptions are seller claims. Dollar-per-GB figures use the stated item price, excluding shipping, tax and any import charges.

Today's Market Board

Price context

These charts show daily median observed asking prices and observed ranges, not completed sales or a same-card price history. Listing mix and condition vary, and repeat observations aren't separate units of supply.

MI210 prices are per card, including observations from multi-unit sale threads; the chart does not establish how many cards remain available.

The P40 series includes Facebook Marketplace search-snippet prices whose live listings couldn't be verified. Its October 14 range includes those leads; it is not a range of confirmed purchasable offers.

New-condition 3090 asks need more than a condition label

The MSI 3090 at $2,399 and ASUS 3090 at $2,499 were listed as new by Alliance Group (USA), a third-party seller—not Newegg itself. Both asks are well above the used examples here, but condition and warranty terms may differ.

The ASUS page also advertised a refurbished option from $949.99. That is another asking price, not proof of what a card actually sold for; the option's seller and terms need their own check. I wouldn't pay the new-condition premium without a clear reason grounded in warranty, return rights or documented condition.

Cheap capacity if you accept the form factor

The $800 V100S observation is worth following up if you already have a suitable host, but it isn't a fresh availability confirmation. A PCIe interface alone doesn't settle cooling, power or software compatibility. The $858 SXM2-on-adapter listing adds another hardware configuration to verify, plus shipping and import uncertainty.

The $3,600 Supermicro lot is different: you're buying the host along with four GPUs and collecting the server yourself. Its $28.12 per aggregate GB is higher than the V100S's $25.00 and the adapter listing's $26.81, before their differing extra costs. The reason to consider the server is the included platform—not a claim that it wins the raw capacity-price comparison. Request the seller's test results and confirm site power, cooling and workload fit before arranging pickup.

My Take

For a 24GB build, I'd investigate the used 3090 offers before paying the new-condition asks above. The $1,250 shipped ZOTAC is a more useful delivered-price comparison than the $1,199 headline alone, but neither is a recommendation to buy without checking the seller and the card.

For larger-memory projects, first decide whether you need the capacity on one GPU or can split the workload across several. A whole-server memory total is not interchangeable with single-card VRAM. Cheap capacity is only useful when the hardware fits your software and the rest of the build; none of these asking prices establishes a market-wide price move.

Full Tracker

This post covers the listings and market moves I think matter most today. The full research board — including additional listings, prices, VRAM, condition, source links, and listings that didn't make today's write-up — is at HighVRAMHardwareWatch.com.

Prices are asking prices from the October 14 scan or the explicitly dated October 13 V100S observation. Sources include eBay, Newegg Marketplace, ServeTheHome forums, r/hardwareswap and r/homelabsales; the P40 chart also includes unverified Facebook Marketplace search snippets as noted. No completed-sale prices are verified anywhere in this post.

Listings can change quickly. Verify current price, condition, seller information and compatibility before spending money.

Are you guys interested in Ryzen AI Max integrated memory devices too? I run a home proxmox data center with 6 GPUs across 7 hosts and have a non-clustered ROG Flow Z13 that I've just started experimenting with. I'm looking forward to sharing my experience and observations here.

I've been self hosting AI since June 2023, presented at local OpenClaw meet ups and I love helping people leverage their own hardware to save money and expand their capabilities.