Should you buy a graphics card in 2026?
The received wisdom has been that pricing has become ludicrous and that only a fool would be a new graphics card in 2026. But is that the reality? Prices have certainly gone up, but not to the same extent as memory or storage, and there are GPUs worth looking at right now. So, which cards are deserving of your cash, should you look at the second-hand market, and what’s on the horizon for graphics card groupies? Dave and Jacob pick through the bones of the GPU market right now.
0:00 – Introduction
01:27 – GPU pricing trends
04:17 – Higher end GPU prices
09:09 – AMD RX 9070XT pricing
11:23 – The next generation of graphics cards
12:42 – How much VRAM should be in your GPU?
16:50 – Older GPU options for gaming
21:46 – What GPU would we buy right now?
28:09 – GPUs and prebuilds
29:41 – Mobile GPUs and gaming laptops
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