eBay Historical GPU Prices 2023: November 2023 Update

Here's the eBay GPU pricing data and commentary from the month of September, 2023.

The past few months have seen a bit of up and down movement, curiously, with some of the top Nvidia cards jumping up in prices during August and then coming back down in September. We've also seen the launch of the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB, RX 7800 XT, and RX 7700 XT (with the Arc A580 arriving this month, so it's not in the data yet). We're in October now, so our last full month of data comes from September.

Nvidia's RTX 40-series parts show a downward trend compared to last month (except for the 4070 Ti), but that's because most of their prices spiked upward during August. Back to school shopping fever, or people upgrading PCs using student loans? Or maybe just some oddities in eBay's data. Whatever the cause, the GPUs are mostly back to where they were in July.

AMD's hardware also saw a few upticks in eBay pricing during August, and some different GPUs trended upward in September, but mostly things are still trending down. We suspect the supply of many of these GPUs is also becoming more limited, though there are no clear patterns in how many GPUs will be sold each month. July was a slower month, August picked up slightly, and September was down on units sold again.

We probably need to shift all the RTX 30-series and RX 6000-series cards down into the "legacy" table below, but we'll leave them for now. Most of the Nvidia cards appear to have bottomed out on pricing, with a slight upward trend during September. Perhaps that's just people hoping to get a little bit extra for the cards during the holidays, though with the launch of faster and generally better RTX 40-series and RX 7000-series parts, I don't really see that working out.

The previous generation GPUs (n-2 now) aren't moving as much overall. July say a 6% drop in average prices, August showed no change at all, and September shows a slight 2% dip. While these cards are mostly still capable (at least on the higher spec models), our latest testing of Alan Wake 2 shows how these older GPUs are really starting to show their age. Even the RTX 2080 Ti didn't mange great results in that game.

But if you're not worried about maxed out settings and path tracing, and just want a modest GPU for gaming purposes, these previous generation cards can still be competitive. The best values unfortunately are on cards at the lower end of the performance ladder, or cards that lack more recent features.

AMD's RX 5000-series for example are basically going for a song these days. $115 for an RX 5700 XT? That still competes with the RTX 2070, RTX 3060, and Arc A770. But it has no support for ray tracing, plus it was popular for GPU mining for a while, so people don't seem as interested in picking one up these days.