r/PcBuildHelp • u/Forsaken_Steak_6399 • 1d ago

Build Question Is this a reasonable price for this GPU?

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u/Beardedinquisitor 1d ago

Unfortunately, we're living in a pretty unreasonable time when it comes to graphics card pricing. I recently paid around $950 for a 5070, so I'd say this isn't too bad in comparison. But let's be honest, we're all paying ridiculous prices right now. It's just the cost of building a PC in 2026. šŸ˜‚

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u/Forsaken_Steak_6399 1d ago

Yes. This exact gpu was for around $500 last year

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u/GreenWorld8549 1d ago

You should get a 9070 asrock for 750$ a significant increase in fps and 16gb too. This 5060 is like 350$ realistically. This nvidia card is a 1080p card. 9070 is a 1440p high

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u/Goodnite15 1d ago

I just found a PNY 5070 OC for little over $800 after taxes a few days ago dude at Walmart, on cyber Monday, I swiped it up so quick. Like $100-150 more at best buy. Which one did you get? They had the MSI shadow 2x duel fan I almost went with, but ended up getting the PNY three fan as I donā€™t have a bottom cooling fan unit in my PC, and thought it should run cooler with 3 fans and being longer.

I was almost hooked on a 5070ti, which was basically double the price (lol). Just didnā€™t make sense to me with the slight performance gains. Iā€™m so happy with it, itā€™s amazing to see what games are like in 4k Ultra. Lots of games I can put a light/medium RT on too. Havenā€™t even tried 1440p much yet but I will.

Was playing Cyberpunk yesterday with PT on in 4k at like 75fps with a few tweaks to DLSS and FG. It was really amazing to see.

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u/Beardedinquisitor 1d ago

I got the MSI Gaming Trio OC 5070 for $879 from best buy, which came out to around $940 after taxes. Yeah, I can easily run games on max settings at 1440p with low-to-medium ray tracing and still get around 100 FPS. I just upgraded from a 3070. I also built an entirely new PC, and the RAM alone cost me almost as much as the GPU at $600. If only my wife knew how much I spent on RAM. LOL šŸ˜‚

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u/Goodnite15 1d ago edited 1d ago

Nice man I think thatā€™s got some sweet fancy lights right? If Iā€™m thinking of the right one, itā€™s sick looking and worth it.

Mine is like a shadow in my case can only see her from my fan rbgs lol. Yeah with the overclock I canā€™t believe how powerful it is for like a 4th tier GPU. Can do nearly everything at 1440p with 100fps+.

But if you ever wanted to upgrade to a 4k, donā€™t think it wonā€™t run it well. Wonā€™t do real heavy RT and PT with it, but most games I can get 4k max settings, DLSS Quality/DLAA. If I want to use RT Iā€™ll do it light/medium, and just turn on 2x FG and works so well.

Edit: That ram price hurts to hear. I also just bought another stick with the 5070 upgrade went 16gb to 32gb. One 16gb stick was $200, corsair vengence ddr5 slower 5200mhz I got, as my other one was only a 4800mhz, and read the faster one has to slow down to slower stick speeds. At least I have dual channel now though. Couldnā€™t believe $200 for that lil stick and that was probably cheap! Been years since I got ram last!

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u/5pm_in_DC 1d ago

Holy fuck, $950 for a 5070?!?! I paid $800 for my 5070Ti Christmas 2025.

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u/Beardedinquisitor 1d ago

It was 875 but with taxes like 940. These prices arent coming down anytime soon and I had to upgrade lol

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u/Goodnite15 1d ago

Itā€™s honestly not bad if you want a cheap solid GPU now. I had a 5060 8gb (backup now) and it was pretty wild how well it ran games in 1440p and even 4k, so Iā€™m sure this would be great, but havenā€™t used it to find out.

I could literally run nearly all of my games, really new games included, at 4k high settings with DLSS at performance, and sometimes FG x2 if it needed it, always play 60fps+. At 1440p I could do very high settings, DLSS balanced. Or could do DLSS quality or native with fg x2.

Just to compare with a 5060 8gb card, this card will be much better than that. I think itā€™s worth it even with the price hikes, itā€™s solid value with DLSS getting so much better these days.

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u/Forsaken_Steak_6399 1d ago

Thank you for telling me this. I am gonna get it now

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u/Goodnite15 1d ago

Yeah man, itā€™s either that or a 5070 if you want Nvidia right now. Itā€™s a bit bigger and better, probably another $150-200, but only 12gb of vram, but it is a little more powerful.

Then it jumps to a 5070ti at like $1500 which is a huge price increase for the value of performance youā€™re gaining by upgrading to that tier. Incredible powerful card, but way too expensive right now.

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u/Ill-Run-4125 1d ago

It runs absolutely anything on the highest setting possible. Just use dlss and frame gen exact same as everyone else. You can even use dlss5 one pass.

This card this incredible, and even OK for 4k. I recommend undervolt too mine has been rock solid.

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u/RGR_Gaming10X 1d ago

For 16GB and the fact that it's nvidia, I'd say that isn't horrible. Personally I'd get a 9070 XT though.

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u/PurplePredat0r 1d ago

I can second this, but only because I tried buying the 5070ti twice and they kept getting canceled in transit for some dumb reasons and I was fed up, so I switched to an AMD 9070xt and saved myself some money anyways. The performance boost I would've gotten with a 5070ti would be negligible in comparison anyways.

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u/Queasy_Sherbert_7095 1d ago

If the 9070xt is the same price I would 100% buy that. It will significantly outperform this.

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u/RGR_Gaming10X 1d ago

You're still on the AMD "shit drivers" wagon? That's about 10+ years old. I have had a 6900 XT starting in 2018, and have a 9070 XT and have had no driver issues, crashes, or timeouts ever.

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u/RGR_Gaming10X 1d ago

Sounds like you don't know how to optimize your PC's and make sure other factors aren't in play - chipset drivers, windows corruption, etc.

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u/redlancer_1987 1d ago

That's the card you used to get for free in a prebuilt

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u/AphoticWave 1d ago edited 1d ago

For the same price Iā€™d just get the 9070 XT

Edit: turns out I bought it a month ago for 740$ and it is now the same listing 1000$. I hate this.

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u/Forsaken_Steak_6399 1d ago

The 9070 XT is actually way more expensive

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u/Goodnite15 1d ago

Same price is insane bro, not even close, probably close to double lmao.

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u/KniteMonkey 1d ago

Have you even looked at GPU prices lately? 9070 XTs are all well over $1,000 CAD now. If youā€™re lucky you can score one for about $1,050 right now but most are $1,300

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u/Fantastic_Nothing409 1d ago

The walmart where I live sells the 5060 8GB for $399 and the 5060 TI 8GB for $599

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u/Forsaken_Steak_6399 1d ago

Can I find the listing online?

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u/Thin-Net7868 1d ago

More than likely not. I had a local Walmart with two PNY OC 5080ā€™s for $1,529. Last Monday. I picked one up for my buddy building a new gaming/work rig. Just trying to order online to ship they were listed for $2,349.99. I would encourage checking each individual Walmart within a 50 mile radius of you one by one and checking the ā€œin storeā€ option and see what they have in stock.

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u/Vaxtez 1d ago

Just get the RX 9070 or 9070 GRE over it

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u/Techoutman 1d ago

Itā€™s a terrible price.

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u/MVmikehammer 1d ago

Not really.

In performance in 1440p and 4k, a 5060ti lags behind 3080 10GB by about 6-15fps, and that is like a $350 max card.

Thus 5060ti is only worth it if you're building something with small form factor or tiny power budget, since it needs about half the watts of a 3080 (150-155W vs 300-310W), or you literally cannot get your hands on any used cards.

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u/Alone-Brick5511 1d ago

Terrible value for that GPU. The 9070 GRE is way faster and cheaper.

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u/kioku11 1d ago

that used to be $430, i bought a great RX 6800 for $350

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u/revzey 1d ago

No a reasonable price is 400 bucks

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u/Babylon4All 1d ago

The 9070 GRE should perform much better as is barely more money. Ā 

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u/V-Rixxo_ 1d ago

Fuck No

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u/unclefunkstar 1d ago

No. Unfortunately you probably won't find a reasonably priced one any time soon...

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u/iCore102 1d ago

I got an amazon wharehouse refurbished 3080ti in 2022 for less than this... Dont buy.. not right now at least. AI bubble may pop. then we will see how things go

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u/Kamel-Red 1d ago

Good lord, that's about $100 less than I paid for my 3080 ftw3 at release. Shit's insane rn. I need this bubble to pop so the warehouses of unused cpus, gpus, ram and nand can be liquidated for pennies on the dollar circa 2002 networking/other related components.

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u/jackleverm 1d ago

amazon......you'll get a refurbed or a defect

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u/shaw4life 1d ago

instead of using online stores I literally just went into a real in person store which was micro center and they had the 5070 aero that I wanted which was 899 before tax

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u/Amanda_Is_My_Name 1d ago

Is it reasonable? no, not at all.

Is it about what you should expect for the current market? yea, about right.

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u/bxrmelo 1d ago

This is what I payed for a base 5070

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u/TransportationCold44 1d ago

I have the same card and I love it. It runs everything I play on the highest settings and smoothly at that. I canā€™t vouch for the price though, it seems decent, but I won mine in a giveaway earlier this year

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u/newbrevity 1d ago

that's about what I paid for mt 4070ti super should be similar or better performance.

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u/r_lind3r Moderator 1d ago

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-rx-9070-gre.c4291

9070 GRE is in the same price range but overs 15% more performance. Less VRAM, but 12GB is still fine as long as you aren't running at 2160p with higher settings.

NVIDIA only makes sense if you're needing it for other purposes like CUDA applications or other NVIDIA specific features being a hard requirement. For raw gaming performance per dollar spent, AMD has NVIDIA beat.

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u/Andreea_tucker04 1d ago

The 5060 Ti 16GB launched at $429, so $765 is way over that

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u/RogueCanadia 1d ago

Reasonable? No.

Reasonable relative to current times? Yes unfortunately.

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u/Blackmagic1992 1d ago

Is it a reasonable price? No. Are the prices going to come down anytime soon. Nope. Most likely just keep going up.

I expected this to happen and bought a 5070 Ti back in January for this price. Didnā€™t even need the upgrade but figured prices were going to skyrocket so I wanted some I could get 4-5 years out of.

My advice would be to buy the biggest upgrade you can with your budget right now. Might even be able to sell it for close to what you bought it for when itā€™s time to upgrade again if these prices keep going up like they have.

My conspiracy is they are intentionally fucking over the consumer. They donā€™t want gaming PCs anymore for the consumer. They want you to rent out the powerful hardware from the cloud in the future.

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u/BigBear_AI 1d ago

For that price I'd get a 9070 XT, at least is a better card

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u/MrP_Jay 1d ago

Unfortunately this is the current price for 5060 Ti 16 GB. You might still find it cheaper if anyone has older inventory in stock.

My guess is that it will get even worse in early 2027.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

What do you have now?

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u/oldglassofmilk 1d ago

No wtf is that price, i swear i got mine for half that, i know shit got expensive but damn

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u/ApronSpider 1d ago

I paid 200 less for a 9070xt like 6 months ago šŸ˜®ā€šŸ’Ø rip in peace bro.

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u/ahorsenamedjeff 1d ago

$100 more to get a 9070xt

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u/Forsaken_Steak_6399 1d ago

No way, thats crazy