A month of double-digit gains ended in a week where almost nothing happened. Eight of the 28 US GPU prices carrying a seven-day figure show a change of exactly zero, and none of the ten best-covered prices moved more than 3.9 percent either way. Every figure below is a US retail, tax-excluded median over our 90-day window unless a region is named; the seven and 30-day trends compare each window against the one before.
Correction (2026-09-12): The same audit applies here. The 30-day figures in the second paragraph below (the RTX 50 stack up 19.91 to 33.55 percent, the 8GB RTX 5060 Ti at 39.27) compare a recent window with plenty of readings against a thin baseline recorded before a change to how we check prices on August 19, the same mismatch already flagged in this piece for the CPU section. Read the seven-day figures and the absolute prices as reported; discount the 30-day GPU percentages the same way this piece already asks readers to discount the CPU ones. The trend calculation has since been corrected to avoid this comparison going forward.
The stack held at the top of its range
The RTX 5090 median is $4,797.50 across 30 readings ($3,749 to $4,999.99), 2.4 times its $1,999 launch price and up 0.42 percent over seven days. The rest of the stack followed: the RTX 5080 at $1,579.99 over 36 readings and up 3.89 percent, the RTX 5070 Ti at $1,103.99 over 32 and up 1.45, the RTX 5070 at $799.99 over 32 with a seven-day change of zero, and the RTX 5060 at $449.99 over 30, also zero. Those five sit between 1.46 and 2.4 times launch price, which is stability of a sort, just not the sort anyone asked for.
Over 30 days those five are up between 19.91 and 33.55 percent, and the 8GB RTX 5060 Ti leads the whole tracked set at 39.27 percent on a $499.99 median. RDNA 4 and Arc never ran that far: the RX 9070 is $649.99 over 30 readings and up 8.33 percent in 30 days, the RX 9070 XT $719.99 over 28 and up 7.25, and the Arc B580 $309.99 over 19 and up 6.53, sitting at 1.18, 1.20 and 1.24 times their launch prices.
Five tracked GPUs still hold a median at or below launch MSRP, and all five are Radeons: the RX 9070 GRE at $534.99 against $549, the RX 7900 XTX at $929.99 against $999, the RX 7900 XT at $849.99 against $899, the RX 7600 at $259.49 against $269, and the RX 7700 XT at $409.99 against $449. Each rests on five to seven readings across 90 days, so that is a trend line, not a price you can walk in and pay.
Germany and France came down; the UK finally has fresh numbers
German medians fell on the seven-day view while the US held flat. The RTX 5060 is down 10.19 percent to €418.99 over 13 readings, the 8GB RTX 5060 Ti down 7.46 to €469 over 13, the RTX 5070 down 7.61 to €733.07 over 15, and the RTX 5080 down 5.91 to €1,429 over 18. France went the same way on thinner readings: the RTX 5060 down 10.84 percent to €399 over six, the RTX 5080 down 7.12 to €1,369 over nine. The Netherlands did not follow: the RTX 5060 up 12.20 percent to €414, the RX 9060 XT 16GB up 10.14 to €489, both on six readings. All EU and UK figures are VAT included and the US ones are not, so the two sets are not directly comparable.
UK prices were checked again this week after more than a month without a reading, closing the biggest regional gap we had. The RTX 5090 reads £3,320, the RTX 5080 £1,075 and the RTX 5070 Ti £850, all VAT included, all on three or four readings. Three readings give a direction, not a price.
The CPU discount is getting smaller
Nineteen of the 21 tracked CPUs still hold a US retail median under launch MSRP, unchanged from last week, but 16 of the 21 posted a higher median over the last seven days than over the seven before. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D is up 24.82 percent to $669.99 against a $699 MSRP, the Core i9-14900K up 21.55 to $439.50 against $589, the Core i7-14700K up 17.30 to $365.97 against $409, and the Ryzen 7 9800X3D up 15.42 to $447.49 against $479.
Most CPU prices were last checked on August 25, so those two seven-day windows come from separate rounds of checks with different retailer mixes; read the direction, discount the percentages. The Ryzen 7 5700X3D is still a quirk of thin data rather than a price: a $423 median across four readings with a $209.99 low in the same window. Waiting has been the right call on CPUs all month and still is, though the category is quietly taking some of that discount back.
Memory still sets the ceiling
The Corsair Vengeance 64GB DDR5-6000 CL30 kit reads $1,163.99 across nine readings ($1,159.99 to $1,235.99), which leaves $60 between a memory kit and an RTX 5070 Ti. The nine 32GB kits we track span $394 to $549.99: Patriot Viper Venom at $412.49 over six readings, TEAMGROUP T-Force Delta RGB at $489.99 over ten, Corsair Vengeance 32GB at $499.99 over eleven, and G.SKILL Flare X5 at $549.99 over seven.
The Crucial Pro Overclocking 64GB DDR5-6400 shows $868.63 with a 30.63 percent 30-day gain, but four readings spread from $640 to $943.78 is a range, not a quote. The Corsair Vengeance 96GB row still rests on a single reading taken on July 7, now 53 days old and first in line for a new check, so $648.99 is history, not a current price.
Buy memory from retail, at the capacity the build actually needs. Marketplace listings run above retail on six of the eight kits where both kinds of price have data, and the two exceptions rest on one and two listings, which is not enough to chase. Inside that $394 to $549.99 span the kits differ mostly in speed bin and heatspreader, so take the cheapest one at the speed and capacity the platform supports.