The
ups and downs of the cryptocurrency market have meant that it's been a wild year for PC gamers.
Cryptocurrency miners rushed out to purchases hordes of NVIDIA and AMD GPUs, which drove up the prices for people that just wanted to play Doom in 4K without having to pay an arm and a leg for a graphics card. Luckily, graphics cards prices are starting to
fall back to normalcy as the cryptocurrency craze wanes, and the latest deal to come as a result is on the MSI Gaming Radeon RX 580 8G V1.
Amazon has the card on sale for $259.99 with free two-day shipping for Amazon Prime members. To make the deal even sweeter, there is a $30 mail-in rebate that brings the price down to an even more enticing $229.99.
With this sale, the Radeon RX 580 is finally back down to around the price that it was when it launched in early 2017. At this time in a graphics card's lifecycle, we'd expect to be paying far lower prices, but given how badly the cryptocurrency rush upset the balance of graphics cards for everyone, we'll take what we can get.
The Radeon RX 580 8G V1 has 8GB of GDDR5 memory with a 256-bit interface, a 1340MHz boost clock along with three DisplayPort and one HDMI connections on the back. When we reviewed the Radeon RX 580 last year, we found performance of the card to be comparable to the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060.
We should mention that in addition to the $259.99 price tag before rebate [PDF], you can get free same-day Prime shipping if you live in a supported metropolitan area within the United States.
Brandon Hill
Brandon received his first PC, an IBM Aptiva 310, in 1994 and hasn’t looked back since. He cut his teeth on computer building/repair working at a mom and pop computer shop as a plucky teen in the mid 90s and went on to join
AnandTech as the Senior News Editor in 1999. Brandon would later help to form
DailyTech where he served as Editor-in-Chief from 2008 until 2014. Brandon is a tech geek at heart, and family members always know where to turn when they need free tech support. When he isn’t writing about the tech hardware or studying up on the latest in mobile gadgets, you’ll find him browsing forums that cater to his long-running passion: automobiles.
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