At the beginning of January, Nvidia introduced an updated model line of RTX 40 Super graphics cards. We’ll see how it mixed with the market situation and which graphics card models are advantageous and which you should avoid.
The market responded to the January premiere of the RTX 40 Super series, although the response was probably more lukewarm than we would have liked. During February and March, the stores responded to the new models on the market and the prices somehow settled down. Not much has happened since then, and it will probably continue for a while, perhaps only towards the end of the holidays, more powerful models could start to be discounted, if the new generation of GeForce really appears in the fall. So if you want to buy a graphics card, there is not much to wait for.
The only thing that probably still hangs in the air is the question of whether, after the publication of the latest graphics card sales results, AMD will not proceed with further discounts after all – the current differences against GeForce are usually so small that with Radeon, despite certain disadvantages it has, you usually save a few hundred rather than thousands.
It certainly doesn’t make sense to get lower models than the RTX 3050 and RX 6500 XT for gaming. Especially with the cheapest cards in the lower class, you have to keep a close eye on the prices and configuration of the cards. Seemingly small differences in parameters can mean a significant difference in performance, and every hundred crown difference in price can make a favorable card disadvantageous in this class and vice versa.
You will often find that cards whose performance differs by tens of percents cost practically the same, sometimes even that the slower card is more expensive.
Pay attention to memory with cheaper cards
For GeForce RTX 3050 and RTX 3060, pay attention to the memory capacity, to the original 8GB RTX 3050 and 12GB RTX 3060 cheaper ones were added variants with trimmed memory buslower memory capacity and lower performance – RTX 3050 with 6GB memories and RTX 3060 with 8GB memoirs. In tests across the Internet, you will find mostly the original, faster variants. Keep in mind that trimmed models have lower performance, and at a similar price, it’s definitely worth going for the original full-size versions with a higher memory capacity.
Maybe you haven’t even registered it. The GeForce RTX 3060 with 8 GB of memory appeared quietly in the menu sometime late last year…
Even at RTX 4060 Ti pay attention to memory capacity. It is produced in a version with 8 and 16 GB of memory. However, with this model, a higher memory capacity does not mean higher performance in games, with perhaps very rare exceptions. An additional payment of around two thousand will not be adequately reflected in the performance at present and probably not even in the near future. The more expensive 16GB RTX 4060 Ti only makes sense for games if you don’t intend to change the graphics card for a really long time, or if you’re buying it for a specific title that you know is more memory-intensive and 8GB GeForce isn’t enough for it, or if you need more memory capacity for applications and AI, while the performance of the RTX 4060 Ti chip is enough for you. Then it is the cheapest option to get a GeForce with 16 GB of memory, the next more powerful model with 16 GB is the practically twice as expensive RTX 4070 Ti Super.
There are probably no tricks in the offer for higher models, just be careful that if you are choosing between the best equipped ones, with a price so high that you could already have a higher model with a minimal extra charge. Especially with older GeForce RTX 40 models, take a good look to see if you can buy a more powerful Super version for the money, the prices often overlap.
In the following table, you will find the following items in individual columns:
- MSRP (USD) – the price recommended by AMD and Nvidia at the launch of the given models. Both AMD and Nvidia usually list recommended prices in crowns for individual models. It has been quite a long time since the launch of most models, and there were sometimes adjustments to the Czech prices along with changes in exchange rates, so I preferred to take the original dollar prices at launch in the recommended price (MSRP) column in crowns, recalculate them according to the current exchange rate and add VAT.
- Alza.cz (warehouse) – the cheapest models in Alza that are available in stock or at the supplier.
- Heureka.cz – the lowest prices from the Heureka search engine that are available in online stores. Internet marketplaces are omitted, if the card can be purchased in regular e-shops dealing with hardware such as Alza.cz, CZC.cz, TS Bohemia, Mironet, Softcom, Suntech and others, which already have a longer history and hundreds or rather thousands of ratings with significant by the preponderance of positive ones.
- Bargain, discount off MSRP – how much the price of the cards has changed compared to their launch price. Due to exchange rate differences, this is not the difference against the original recommended price in crowns, but is calculated from the dollar price including VAT according to the current exchange rate.
Prices are usually not more than a day or two old, but it is possible that not all of them will be up to date by the time you read the article, because there are a large number of items across different stores and both the stock of various expensive models and the prices are constantly changing the cards themselves. However, the difference compared to the current situation is usually at the level of a few hundred crowns. Only exceptionally will it be more if a cheaper model sold out of stock disappears and they remain significantly more expensive, but in that case you can subtract the current price/performance ratio from the price you find in the last graph.
| MSRP in USD | conversion to CZK (exchange rate 24.5 CZK/USD) | lowest price Alza.cz (CZK with VAT) | lowest price Heureka (CZK with VAT) | Heureka, discount against MSRP in CZK | Bargain, discount against MSRP in percentage | |
| GeForce RTX 3050, 8 GB | 249 | 7,400 | 6,199 | 5,499 | 1 901 | 34.6% |
| GeForce RTX 3060, 8 GB | 329 | 9,800 | 7 179 | 7,072 | 2,728 | 38.6% |
| GeForce RTX 3060, 12 GB | 329 | 9,800 | 7,299 | 7,590 | 2,210 | 29.1% |
| GeForce RTX 4060, 8 GB | 299 | 8,900 | 7,899 | 7,699 | 1 201 | 15.6% |
| GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, 8 GB | 399 | 11,800 | 9,499 | 9,499 | 2 301 | 24.2% |
| GeForce RTX 4070, 12 GB | 599 | 17,800 | 13,990 | 13,990 | 3,810 | 27.2% |
| GeForce RTX 4070 Super, 12 GB | 599 | 17,800 | 15,999 | 15,999 | 1 801 | 11.3% |
| GeForce RTX 4070 Ti, 12 GB | 799 | 23,700 | 19,590 | 19,590 | 4 110 | 21.0% |
| GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super, 16 GB | 799 | 23,700 | 22 190 | 21,889 | 1 811 | 8.3% |
| GeForce RTX 4080, 16 GB | 1 199 | 35,500 | 26,999 | 26,999 | 8,501 | 31.5% |
| GeForce RTX 4080 Super, 16 GB | 999 | 29,600 | 27,690 | 27,690 | 1 910 | 6.9% |
| GeForce RTX 4090, 24 GB | 1,599 | 47,400 | 47,999 | 44,990 | 2,410 | 5.4% |
| Radeon RX 6600, 8 GB | 329 | 9,800 | 5,399 | 5,399 | 4 401 | 81.5% |
| Radeon RX 6700 XT, 12 GB | 479 | 14,200 | 9,299 | 9,299 | 4,901 | 52.7% |
| Radeon RX 6800, 16 GB | 579 | 17,200 | 9,999 | 9,999 | 7,201 | 72.0% |
| Radeon RX 6800 XT, 16 GB | 649 | 19,200 | 13,990 | 13,990 | 5,210 | 37.2% |
| Radeon RX 7600, 8GB | 269 | 8,000 | 6,990 | 6,970 | 1,030 | 14.8% |
| Radeon RX 7600 XT, 16 GB | 329 | 9,800 | 8,990 | 8,505 | 1,295 | 15.2% |
| Radeon RX 7700 XT, 12 GB | 449 | 13,300 | 11,790 | 10,810 | 2,490 | 23.0% |
| Radeon RX 7800 XT, 8 GB | 499 | 14,800 | 13,990 | 13,382 | 1,418 | 10.6% |
| Radeon RX 7900 GRE, 16 GB | 549 | 16,300 | 15,690 | 15,389 | 911 | 5.9% |
| Radeon RX 7900 XT, 20 GB | 899 | 26,700 | 19,990 | 19,008 | 7,692 | 40.5% |
| Radeon RX 7900 XTX, 24 GB | 999 | 29,600 | 26,990 | 25,796 | 3,804 | 14.7% |
| Intel Arc A750, 8 GB | 249 | 7,400 | 5,699 | 5,699 | 1,701 | 29.8% |
| Intel Arc A770, 16 GB | 349 | 10,300 | 8,799 | 8,799 | 1,501 | 17.1% |
You can quickly find individual models on Alza and Heureka via the links below:
AMD Radeon
Radeon RX 6500 XT – search in the menu on Alza and Heureka
Radeon RX 6600 – search in the menu on Alza sa Heureka
Radeon RX 6600 XT – search in the menu on Alza and Heureka
Radeon RX 6700 XT – search in the menu on Alza and Heureka
Radeon RX 6750 XT – search in the menu on Alza and Heureka
Radeon RX 6800 – search in the menu on Alza and Heureka
Radeon RX 6800 XT – search in the menu on Alza and Heureka
Radeon RX 7600 – search in the menu on Alza and Heureka
Radeon RX 7600 XT – search in the menu on Alza and Heureka
Radeon RX 7700 XT – search in the menu on Alza and Heureka
Radeon RX 7800 XT – search in the menu on Alza and Heureka
Radeon RX 7900 GRE – search in the menu on Alza and Heureka
Radeon RX 7900 XT – search in the menu on Alza and Heureka
Radeon RX 7900 XTX – search in the menu on Alza and Heureka
Nvidia GeForce
GeForce RTX 3050 6GB – search in the menu on Alza and Heureka
GeForce RTX 3050 8GB – search in the menu on Alza and Heureka
GeForce RTX 3060 8GB – search in the menu on Alza and Heureka
GeForce RTX 3060 12GB – search in the menu on Alza and Heureka
GeForce RTX 4060 – search in the menu on Alza and Heureka
GeForce RTX 4060 Ti – search in the menu on Alza and Heureka
GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB – search in the menu on Alza and Heureka
GeForce RTX 4070 – search in the menu on Alza and Heureka
GeForce RTX 4070 Super – search in the menu on Alza and Heureka
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti – search in the menu on Alza and Heureka
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super – search in the menu on Alza and Heureka
GeForce RTX 4080 – search in the menu on Alza and Heureka
GeForce RTX 4080 Super – search in the menu on Alza and Heureka
GeForce RTX 4090 – search in the menu on Alza and Heureka
Intel Arc
Arc A580 – search in the menu for Alza and Heureka
Arc A750 – search in the menu on Alza and Heureka
Arc A770 – search in the menu on Alza and Heureka
