It's Gaming Week at Amazon. Please don't buy a graphics card

pcgamer.com:

All this week, up to Sunday 28th May, is Gaming Week at Amazon. And that means discounts on all kinds of gaming goodies, from the best gaming headsets, to gaming laptops, SSDs, peripherals, and even gaming PCs.

And graphics cards. But please don't buy one, the discounts don't make what Amazon is offering any more tempting. 

Honestly Amazon is very rarely the best place to buy a graphics card, more so since the supply chain and GPU mining crises. You will often find better offers elsewhere and you're also more likely to find old graphics cards being sold for ridiculously high prices within the often murky realms of its sellers.

But it doesn't just have to be unscrupulous GPU sellers you need to be careful of as Amazon's own Gaming Week graphics card deals are well worth avoiding. They're mostly the result of an overstock of last-gen cards, and they're being discounted to a price that is more or less the price of the new cards either launching this week or in July.

So, you can buy one of these slower, discounted cards or, for effectively the same money, buy a brand new card with all the latest features, and get higher gaming performance. Yes, you too could pick up an RTX 3060 8GB card for $340 or save that $40 and spend $300 on an RTX 4060 when that launches in a month or so.

I mean, in Amazon's defence that over-priced RTX 3060 is in fancy white trim, so maybe that's worth the premium and the lower actual in-game performance to you. If so, well, knock yourself out, it's your moolah to waste.

In similar white trim, there's an RTX 3060 Ti on sale for $430 right now. And that's just $30 more expensive than the explicitly faster RTX 4060 Ti which launches tomorrow. Now, I've not been super glowing in my review of that card,