PowerColor Warns Gamers: Buy Graphics Cards Now Before Prices Rise

A PowerColor insider is offering the brand's customers guidance on when to buy a graphics card: In short, do it soon, because price increases are coming. But you might want to wait for the Black Friday sale to kick in first, as VideoCardz reports.

Since the start of the year, when graphics card prices were utterly ridiculous following the launch of the Nvidia RTX 5000 series and AMD RX 9000 range, they've slowly been coming down and returning to some semblance of normalcy—or at least close to MSRP. But in recent months, the prices on top cards have started to rise again in the wake of AI-driven shortages. And as NAND Flash prices have spiked in the past few months, graphics card prices are expected to follow suit in the new year.

PowerColor is at least warning its customers...and generating sale hype at the same time ...