Think fast: this RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB is $200 under the stupidly inflated price right now, but probably won't be for long

The graphics card market is a bit broken right now, and the reasons are manifold, though still mostly come down to a basic AI=BAD. I've been tracking the cheapest GPU prices for over a year now, and we are in the process of shifting from a bit of a plateau in terms of pricing to new price rises almost across the board.

One of the most recent, and possibly most egregious price hikes has been with the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB card. That was a $430 GPU at launch and barely had time to settle into its MSRP before the market went into overdrive. Over the past couple of weeks I've tracked the cheapest RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB going from around $560 up to just shy of $800. Around the price of the RTX 5070 and more expensive than every single AMD GPU in the RX 9000-series.

GPU price tracking

I've been tracking the lowest price of each GPU in this generation since August 14, 2025

Lowest pricing (Price, $)

Week

Lowest pricing Data

Timestamp (Week)	Nvidia RTX 5070 (Price, $)	Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB (Price, $)	AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE (Price, $)
1	550	430	N/A
2	550	430	N/A
3	524	430	N/A
4	546	430	N/A
5	481	430	N/A
6	499	379	N/A
7	520	430	N/A
8	500	430	N/A
9	500	430	N/A
10	480	430	N/A
11	489	400	N/A
12	500	400	N/A
13	527	420	N/A
14	540	420	N/A
15	499	430	N/A
16	499	430	N/A
17	549	430	N/A
18	540	450	N/A
19	549	450	N/A
20	620	520	N/A
21	620	520	N/A
22	620	520	N/A
23	630	520	N/A
24	625	520	N/A
25	630	550	N/A
26	604	550	N/A
27	640	570	N/A
28	630	515	N/A
29	636	500	N/A
30	630	500	N/A
31	599	500	N/A
32	599	515	N/A
33	599	490	N/A
34	599	550	N/A
35	599	550	N/A
36	599	550	550
37	599	570	550
38	599	570	550
39	599	570	500
40	599	565	500
41	560	560	500
42	550	570	550
43	755	650	500
44	763	780	500
45	800	773	530
46	759	570	530

The recent price spike for both the RTX 5070 and RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB make it tough recommendation against the relatively new RX 9070 GRE.

Everywhere else it has remained at that price, but right now you can pick up an MSI RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB for $570 at Walmart. I can't find another version of that GPU anywhere that comes close to it. You can see above that the next cheapest RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB card is $760 at Amazon. So, if you've got your heart set on a 16 GB version of Nvidia's fifth-tier RTX Blackwell GPU, then you had better strike while the iron's kinda tepid (it is still well above MSRP, after all) because I doubt we'll see this card around this sort of price again any time soon.

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The major caveat to this deal, however, is that this is not the graphics card I would recommend if you had around $500 - $600 to spend on a new GPU. For me, as a regular PC gamer, I would be looking at the AMD RX 9070 GRE. Yes, it's got less memory, but 12 GB is still absolutely fine for PC gaming today, and it's RDNA 4 GPU is far more capable of high, smooth frame rates at higher resolutions than the RTX 5060 Ti. Even with 16 GB of VRAM at its disposal.

Sure, you're not getting Multi Frame Generation of the sort of quality Nvidia can offer, but FSR 4 and its Redstone update have hugely improved AMD's Radeon software feature set. And I'd take that superior GPU over Nvidia's slightly better software stack right now.

The RX 9070 GRE is $530 at Amazon today, making it a good chunk cheaper than even this relatively cheap (compared to the other retailers, anyway) RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB card. And that, combined with it's higher performance makes the GRE my preferred choice.

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Dave has been gaming since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug on the Colecovision, and code books for the Commodore Vic 20 (Death Race 2000!). He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system around a year later. When he dropped it out of the window. He first started writing for Official PlayStation Magazine and Xbox World many decades ago, then moved onto PC Format full-time, then PC Gamer, TechRadar, and T3 among others. Now he's back, writing about the nightmarish graphics card market, CPUs with more cores than sense, gaming laptops hotter than the sun, and SSDs more capacious than a Cybertruck.