PSA: Headed into Black Friday, AMD’s Midrange GPU Prices are Really, Really Good

As with all game offerings, your mileage may vary, and how attractive these titles are will depend on whether you want to play them in the first place. As a matter of price/performance, however, the RX 570 is a fabulous position at $139. A recent review of the RX 570 by Tech Spot found that this GPU was just three percent slower than the GTX 1060 3GB. At $139, it’s a full $20 cheaper than the cheapest GTX 1050 Ti you can buy and faster than that GPU by a substantial margin.

The RX 570 does draw significantly more power than a GTX 1050 Ti or 1060, but the tradeoff is worth it given the significantly better price/performance ratio. This is easily the best midrange deal you can pick up today.

The RX 580 is in a similarly favored position, though not to quite the same extent. This GPU generally competes with the GTX 1060, landing between the 3GB and 6GB versions overall, but losing some tests and winning others depending on the game benchmark and API in question. At $189, the RX 580 should be considered the price/performance leader here as well, however. Benchmarks of the recently-released RX 590 revealed that a 3GB framebuffer sometimes isn’t large enough to run the latest games at full detail, even in 1080p, and I’d counsel against buying a card with less than 4GB of memory above the $150 price point from any vendor. $30, at this price point, represents a 1.16x increase, and AMD has a better deal with the RX 580 than anything I’ve seen from NV at this time.

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