News Best Graphics Card Deals for Prime Day October: Cheap Nvidia and AMD GPUs

[abufrejoval]

It's because US tax rates vary by state. Some states have zero sales tax, some have up to maybe 10%. And you can also get local taxes, by county or even city. Since everyone shops at the same place for internet shipping, it's best to not list tax — the people buying something will know their local tax rate, which won't be the same for most people.

State and Local Sales Tax Rates, 2024

Retail sales taxes are an essential part of most states’ revenue toolkits, responsible for 32 percent of state tax collections and 13 percent of local tax collections (24 percent of combined collections).

taxfoundation.org

I remember and sometimes you'll have state taxes, county taxes and city taxes, perhaps even with different base metrics, exclusions, inclusions, provisions etc.....

It's not that different in Europe, but generally the onus in figuring it all out before you purchase is on the people running the shop, who may not do wrong without getting hit by anti-competitive penalties.

And then cosmetic pricing gets to work and it generally works to the detriment of the consumer, who has to fill the gap to the next "nice looking" price: $599 in the US becomes €699 in Germany and €749 in France or Spain, because they have a slightly higher IVA/VAT/sales tax.

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

I remember and sometimes you'll have state taxes, county taxes and city taxes, perhaps even with different base metrics, exclusions, inclusions, provisions etc.....

It's not that different in Europe, but generally the onus in figuring it all out before you purchase is on the people running the shop, who may not do wrong without getting hit by anti-competitive penalties.

And then cosmetic pricing gets to work and it generally works to the detriment of the consumer, who has to fill the gap to the next "nice looking" price: $599 in the US becomes €699 in Germany and €749 in France or Spain, because they have a slightly higher IVA/VAT/sales tax.

All US sites will show tax once you put in your address. But again, that's up to the particular user. What price should a retail outlet show? Putting a range based on potential sales tax would just be annoying and confusion. We all know that the listed prices don't include sales tax, and since everything has the same sales tax level, the base price comparisons are still fine.

 

[Avro Arrow]

When I click on your link for AMD cards at Amazon, it brings up about 90% Nvidia cards.

Well, dealing with Amazon is a sketchy thing to do anyway. I just either buy local or from Newegg and I use PCPartsPicker to find the best deals. I even get to remove Amazon from my list of approved vendors.

 

[ocer9999]

You guys need to update the deals, just got a Asrock 7900 GRE for 539$ last week..
Pretty good card even VS 4070 Super if you don't really care about Ray Tracing.

 

[Giroro]

It's weird the list price for RTX 4080 is still consistently higher than the 4080 Super. Even used 4080s are still often listed higher than a new 4080 Super.

Shouldn't they be clearing out 4080's by now? They should at least be matching pricing to the 4080 Super, if not offering a slight discount, right? What am I missing?

 

[Eximo]

Somewhat typical. All the remaining inventory at its original price sits there, and the retailers don't want to take the hit. Their original cost didn't change. You don't see the discounted ones because they are sold already or these retailers are just hoping the uninformed by them. Plenty of old links and reviews out there people might just be now seeing.

 

[Avro Arrow]

The RX 7900 XTX is now $870? Wow, that's the lowest price I've seen outside of what I paid for mine last August (equivalent of $850USD). It would be hard to pass that up because the performance (especially at 2160p) is absolutely breathtaking and the 24GB of VRAM means that you'll never have to worry about how much VRAM you have.

 

[Persister]

In Best Prices for 11/29/24 I see something odd but useful to me. RTX 4060 Ti 16GB. Only card with VRAM shown in the table. You can find for any card of course. But my priority is ai generation, not top end gaming. Hammerbot says NV of course and everyone knows about VRAM. But these price updates and "What to look for" are all geared to gamers. Maybe 98% of buyers here so it's not going to change. ?
Thanks for any Comments on that card.

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

In Best Prices for 11/29/24 I see something odd but useful to me. RTX 4060 Ti 16GB. Only card with VRAM shown in the table. You can find for any card of course. But my priority is ai generation, not top end gaming. Hammerbot says NV of course and everyone knows about VRAM. But these price updates and "What to look for" are all geared to gamers. Maybe 98% of buyers here so it's not going to change. ?
Thanks for any Comments on that card.

Most GPUs only have one VRAM capacity and so we don't list that. In the case of the 4060 Ti, the "default" model has 8GB but there's also a 16GB model where the VRAM capacity is explicitly a part of the card name.