Warning: Beware terrible graphics card 'deals' that aren't worth your money

Be wary if you’re browsing hardware deals with an eye toward upgrading your gaming PC. Many of the “sales” we’re seeing on graphics cards during Amazon Prime Day and Newegg’s FantasTech sale aren’t really deals at all, and if you’re not careful, you could wind up spending much more money than you should to get the performance you want.

That’s because Nvidia’s new GeForce RTX 30-series GPUs drastically realigned the value proposition for all high-end graphics cards, and AMD’s rival Radeon RX 6000-series is coming later this month. You can get a lot more for your money with high-end GPUs than you could a scant few days ago. The $700 GeForce RTX 3080 delivers 60 to 80 percent higher performance than the last-gen $700 RTX 2080, and the $1,500 GeForce RTX 3090 is even faster. Both smoke the last-gen $1,200 RTX 2080 Ti, with even the RTX 3070 promising to topple the RTX 2080 Ti for just $499 when it launches on October 29.

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