Beware, some of the Memorial Day graphics card deals aren't as good as they seem

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We're already finding loads of Memorial Day PC gaming deals(opens in new tab), and loads that are genuinely worth your time, surprisingly even on graphics cards. However, I have spotted a few that have really riled me up: Here's a PNY GeForce RTX 3060 with $220 off(opens in new tab), for example. Sounds great, right, that's bound to be cheap? In reality it's still demanding $430 of your hard-earned cash—$101 over Nvidia's launch price—because its MSRP is set to an insulting $650.

Look, it's not actually the worst deal in the world for an RTX 3060 right now, simply because the RTX 3060 still hasn't dropped in price enough since the GPU shortage to be worth picking up yet. It's just not as good a deal as it sounds.

There are a bunch of Memorial Day gaming PC deals(opens in new tab) with RTX 3060 GPUs for decent prices, but discrete 3060 cards? Not so much. I found an MSI Ventus RTX 3060 going for $410(opens in new tab), which is a saving of $60 from that card's original $470 price tag. Not bad, but still nowhere close to Nvidia's launch price. That sort of money should get you the much improved RTX 3060 Ti, really.

A PC gamer can dream.

Here's a reminder of the prices that today's GPUs launched at:

Nvidia

AMD

Sadly, we rarely find graphics cards selling around these launch prices, but don't count yourself out of that GPU upgrade yet. There is clearly a ton of GPU stock about at retailers right now, and some cards are dipping near, or even below, their launch prices.

Take this AMD RX 6600, which at $300 is suddenly a great option when you're looking at RTX 3060 prices like those mentioned above. Or these high-end EVGA 3080s, if you're looking to spend a little more.

XFX Speedster Radeon RX 6600 | 8GB GDDR6 | 1,792 cores |