r/hardware

been running a price tracker for EU GPU retailers since early march, scraping ~15 stores every 6 hours. after ~126,000 price readings across 9 countries here's what stood out.

the tier divergence

RTX 5090-class cards are the only tier going up - avg +3% since launch across the models i've tracked from day 1. everything else is falling. RTX 5060 Ti and RX 9060 XT are both down ~9%, AMD's RX 9070 XT down 7.5%, RTX 5070 Ti down 2%.

my read: AI/workstation demand is absorbing 5090 supply fast enough to prevent the usual post-launch price normalization. the rest of the stack is normalizing as expected.

RTX 5090    +3.0% ▲
RTX 5080    -0.4%
RTX 5060    -1.2%
RTX 5070    -1.3%
RTX 5070 Ti -2.1%
RX 9070     -4.2%
RX 9070 XT  -7.5%
RX 9060 XT  -9.1%
RTX 5060 Ti -9.1% ▼

germany and netherlands basically run the EU GPU market

across all product-days where i could compare prices across countries, germany was cheapest 48.9% of the time, netherlands 42.8%. together that's 91.7%.

DE    48.9%
NL    42.8%
FR     3.8%
FI     2.3%
ES     1.7%
IT     0.4%
BE     0.1%

but the trends are interesting - france has improved a lot, from ~19% premium over the EU floor in the first 25 days down to ~10% now. finland has gotten worse, from ~9% to ~14.5%.

FR  +18.9% → +9.8%  ▼ improving
NL   +3.9% → +5.2%  ▲ slight rise
DE   +3.1% → +3.1%  → flat
FI   +9.3% → +14.5% ▲ worsening

algorithmic pricing

notebooksbilliger.de recorded 45 distinct prices on a single GPU over 15 days - averaging 3 price changes per day - all within a €0.99 range. not hunting for a new price point, just constant micro-adjustments responding to competitor signals.

thursday is cheapest, sunday is most expensive

about €15 difference on average across ~18k readings per day. small but consistent.

thu   €813.52  ← cheapest
wed   €816.91
tue   €819.42
sat   €822.97
mon   €825.74
fri   €827.74
sun   €828.19  ← most expensive

biggest single-model drops

• ASUS Prime RTX 5070 Ti: €1,259 → €964 (-23.4%)
• ASUS TUF RTX 5060 Ti: €770 → €608 (-21%)
• several 5090s fell €200-800 from day-1 prices on dutch retailers early on, but have since stabilized

methodology

tier comparisons only use models tracked from week 1, so sample per tier is small (4-9 GPUs). directional story is solid, don't over-index on exact percentages. country comparisons use matched models across stores with EUR pricing only.

source: pricesquirrel.com — EU GPU price tracker, 15 stores, updates every 6 hours