Between new entries on the low end and competitors heating up on the excessive finish, it’s an excellent time to be out there for a graphics card improve. (Not pretty much as good a time as earlier than the AI increase, pandemic, and cryptocurrency bubble, however hey, whaddayagonnado.) Today one mannequin of the Radeon RX 7900 XT, AMD’s present penultimate GPU, have hit $699. That’s the very best value but for this card, and a formidable $200 off its preliminary retail value simply over a 12 months in the past.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 7900 XT hit that low at a couple of retailers early this morning, nevertheless it appears to be shortly promoting out, and at the moment can solely be discovered at Newegg and Walmart. We’ve seen this card get some dramatic reductions earlier than, however I’d guess that this new low comes as Nvidia has felt the stress and determined to combat again with the brand new 40-series Super playing cards, particularly the RTX 4070 Super and 4070 Ti Super. Those playing cards include 12GB and 16GB of RAM, respectively, nonetheless nicely beneath the 20GB RX 7900 XT, however Nvidia’s playing cards can typically shut the hole with higher ray tracing and super-sampling due to the proprietary DLSS. Read our full review of the Sapphire RX 7900 XT should you’re on the fence.

If you possibly can’t discover the Sapphire card at $699.99, there are a few different choices. Walmart is providing a PowerColor Hellhound model of the identical card, with a strikingly related triple-fan cooler, for the same price with free shipping. Over on Amazon an XFX version is also going for $724.99, which could truly be a greater deal when you have Prime and different Amazon advantages working for you.

Get the Radeon RX 7900 XT for $699.99 at Newegg