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high-end graphics cards. You can get a lot one of the new Radeon or RTX Super cards
more for your money with high-end GPUs instead to get similar performance at
than you could a scant few days ago. The much lower prices.
$400 GeForce RTX 2060 Super delivers And watch out when you’re buying
performance on a par with the original $500 gaming desktops, too. We’re seeing
RTX 2070, while the $500 RTX 2070 Super prebuilt PCs being sold with GeForce RTX
is almost as fast as the original $700 RTX 2070 and 2080 non-Super GPUs at prices
2080. The Radeon GPUs, meanwhile, that don’t make sense anymore. Laptops
outpunch Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 2060 duo are safe, though, as mobile variants of the
at the same price point. new paradigm-shifting GPUs haven’t been
Their release rendered not one, not released yet.
two, but six different GPUs obsolete Nobody likes being a sucker. Read our
overnight (go.pcworld.com/6gpu). guide to the best graphics cards for gaming
Back to the non-deals. The non-Super (go.pcworld.com/gmcd) if you need to brush
version of the GeForce RTX 2070 needs to be up on the new normal, and stay tuned to
on sale for under the RTX 2060 Super’s $400 PCWorld as we surface truly great deals (go.
price point to be a worthwhile purchase in pcworld.com/rd59) when we see them.
this new GPU landscape, and the original RTX There are some worthwhile graphics cards
2080 under the RTX 2070 Super’s $500 available for cheap. You just have to dig
mark. That’s not happening. Here are the sort deeper than usual and avoid the misleading
of prices we’re seeing as “deals” instead: sales on GPUs you really shouldn’t buy
• Zotac RTX 2070 AMP Extreme for $499 anymore (go.pcworld.com/badl).
(go.pcworld.com/ampx)
• Zotac RTX 2080 for $693
(go.pcworld.com/rt80)
• Asus ROG Strix RTX 2070
for $492 (go.pcworld.com/rt70)
• EVGA RTX 2080 XC
Gaming for $665 (go.pcworld.
com/80xc)
And so on. Some of these
would have been okay deals
just a few weeks ago but avoid
them like the plague now. Buy The Radeon RX 5700.
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