Do you mostly buy high-end or budget cards?
Do you only consider Nvidia GPUs, or are you interested in all the GPU brands?
How old is your current graphics card, and does it struggle in games?
Are there any upcoming games you want to play on the highest possible quality controls?
The High-End GPU Market and RTX 50 Launch Whispers
Let’s start with high-end buyers.
We do know that AMD’s RDNA 4 series is currently only planned to have mid-range models.
With this in mind, for high-end buyers, we would recommend waiting before making a GPU upgrade.
With AMD expected to launch RDNA 4 GPUs in January 2025, where does that leave mid-range GeForce?
Now we’re out to five months.
And more recently, the RTX 40 series had the longest release cadence yet.
Especially down near the $250 range, probably not until mid-2025, which is a year away.
The biggest mover is theRadeon RX 7700 XT, which now sits at $380.
This is good and bad for buyers.
That said, the market is looking healthier in the lead-up to a new graphics card generation.
This would have impacted Nvidia and AMD’s decision-making around graphics card pricing and release strategy.
And with so much remaining stock, flash sales and discounts weren’t enough of an incentive.
In 2024, there isn’t as much of a huge backlog of supply.
Things are looking more ‘normal’ as in, before the most recent boom.
But internally, there will be less need to factor in existing models.
