AMD RX 580 8GB GPUs have started selling for under £250 in the UK

2017 has not been a great year for newcomers to the PC gaming scene, with NAND, DRAM and GPUs all receiving price increases thanks to supplying shortages that have been driven by the GPU mining craze and the ever-growing popularity of mobile devices. 

In recent months the retail and second-hand prices of many of today’s mid-high-end GPUs (especially on the AMD side) skyrocketed, with £400 prices for RX 570 GPUs being common on websites like eBay and retail stock for these GPUs being almost non-existent.   

Thankfully things are starting to return to normality at retail, with RX 580 8GB GPUs starting to sell at their regular prices, with Powercolor now selling their RX 580 8GB Red Dragon for under £250, a price that was but a dream when the recent cryptocurrency mining boom was at its peak. 

 

Sadly not all GPUs have returned to normal pricing, with RX 570 models still retailing at well above their (pre-mining) normal retail levels, with cheaper 4GB cards costing £239.99, less than £10 less than an 8GB RX 580. Hopefully, RX 570 prices will return to normal in time, though it is hard to know if or how long this will take.