Walmart just kicked off an exclusive "GeForce Week" sale during which, for the first time ever, some of the latest GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards have been discounted to below MSRP. For the longest time, the new Nvidia GPUs were only available at prices way above MSRP due to strong demand, limited supply, and the insatiable thirst of resellers looking to turn a huge profit. Fortunately, those days are over. Prices aren't just at original launch price, they're actually $50-$70 cheaper depending on the model. Although this sale appears to be run by Walmart, other retailers including Amazon have already price matched some of the GPU deals.
Walmart GeForce Week: The Best GPU Deals
PNY GeForce RTX 5080 16GB OC Graphics Card
Performance-wise, the RTX 5080 is no slouch. It's one of the fastest cards on the market, bested only by the $2,000 RTX 5090 and the discontinued $1,600 RTX 4090. This is a phenomenal card for playing the latest, most demanding games in 4K resolution at high settings and ray tracing enabled and you'll save well over $1,000 by picking this over the 5090.
PNY GeForce RTX 5070 12GB OC Graphics Card
Compared to the previous generation GPUs, the RTX 5070 performs a bit better than the RTX 4070 Super. I wish there was a bigger generation improvement in raw performance, but the RTX 5070 is still a superior graphics card because it supports DLSS 4 and has 12GB of the newer GDDR7 VRAM on top of the slight performance improvement. You probably won't even find an RTX 4070 Super gaming PC for less than $1,100, either. The RTX 5070 is a popular GPU for 1080p or 1440 gaming. The next card up - the RTX 5070 Ti - is significantly more expensive and really for gamers who want high fps 1440p or 4K gaming. Anything less demanding and it's probably overkill.
PNY GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB OC Graphics Card
The RTX 5060 Ti is an excellent GPU for 1080p gaming. It outperforms the RTX 4060 Ti by about 20% and the RTX 3060 Ti by 40%. The RTX 5060 Ti also benefits from Nvidia's new DLSS 4 technology with multi-frame generation as well as newer GDDR7 video memory. There are two RTX 5060 Ti variants floating around with the only difference being the amount of VRAM, either 8GB or 16GB. This deal today is for the 16GB model. According to our RTX 5060 Ti review, the amount of VRAM makes a huge difference. We recommend the 16GB model because it can run just about any game out there comfortably at 1080p and can even handle 1440p with adjusted settings. The 8GB model, however, struggles even at 1080p and don't even think about running games at a higher resolution. For under $400, there's no better GPU right now.
Why are some people disappointed by Nvidia's Blackwell cards?
A lot of people have beef with Nvidia's new graphics cards, but it's not specifically about the product itself. The problem is with the rather lackluster generational improvement over the 40 series cards and the fact that these cards used to be tremendously marked up. If you're coming from an RTX 30 series card or older, or you're upgrading from a lower end GPU to a higher end one, then an RTX 50 series card is still one of your best options. RTX 40 series cards, however close in performance to the RTX 50 series they may be, are not readily sourceable, unless you want to take a risk buying a used one off without warranty on eBay or Facebook Marketplace. AMD cards, although a better value on paper, are still marked up in price (i.e. the $599 RTX 9070 XT is about $700 on Amazon).
Eric Song is the IGN commerce manager in charge of finding the best gaming and tech deals every day. When Eric isn't hunting for deals for other people at work, he's hunting for deals for himself during his free time.
