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An RX 9070 XT for $750 would be the best graphics card deal of Black Friday 2026. It would also be $150 above AMD’s launch price. That’s the market this year: the memory shortage has pushed graphics cards and RAM so far above their launch prices since the summer that a “25% off” sticker can still leave you paying more than you would have in August.
So ignore the percentage. Below are the prices that would make a deal worth taking, set against what each part costs today and the lowest it reached this year. Black Friday is November 27, and Cyber Monday is November 30.
The prices to beat
| Part | Launch price | Low earlier this year | Now | A real deal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RX 9070 XT | $599 | ~$696 (Aug 1) | $950 | Under $800 |
| RX 9070 | $549 | n/a | $750 | Under $650 |
| RTX 5070 | $549 | ~$616 (July) | $900 (2 in stock) | Under $700 |
| RTX 5070 Ti | $749 | n/a | $1,450 (1 in stock) | Under $1,000 |
| RX 9060 XT 16 GB | $349 | ~$420 (July) | $750 | Under $450 |
| RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB | $429 | n/a | $800 | Under $550 |
| RTX 5060 | $299 | ~$340 (July) | $460 | Under $400 |
| Ryzen 7 9800X3D | $479 | $411 (Oct 6) | ~$443 | $420 or less |
| Ryzen 5 7600X | $299 | $142 (Oct 6–7) | ~$165–173 | Under $150 |
| 32 GB DDR5-6000 | n/a | Under $100 (2025) | $430–485 | Don’t wait for one |
My thresholds aren’t arbitrary. For graphics cards, a real deal is a price that brings the card back to roughly where it sat in the summer, or makes it clearly better value than the card above or below it. For CPUs, Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days in early October already showed what a sale price looks like, so Black Friday has to match it.
Graphics cards: watch the RX 9070 XT
If you buy one thing this Black Friday, I’d make it an RX 9070 XT under $800. It’s the card in our 1440p guide that’s actually in stock. It averages 98 fps at 1440p Ultra, against 101 fps for the RTX 5070 Ti, which costs $500 more right now and is barely available. And it sold for under $700 in August, so there’s room for a discount that means something.
The RX 9070 is the cheaper option, at $750 today. Under $650 I’d take it over any RTX 5070 offer, because it’s slightly faster at 1440p (86 fps against 81) and has 16 GB of video memory to the 5070’s 12 GB.
Two kinds of deal to skip:
- Discounts on the 16 GB RTX 5060 Ti and RX 9060 XT. Both cost about $750–800 today, which is RX 9070 money for a much slower card. A big discount on either still leaves them poor value unless it gets them under $550 and $450 respectively.
- “Black Friday” prebuilt PCs that don’t list the exact parts. With memory this expensive, the easy way to hit a price is to put in 16 GB of slow RAM and a cheap DRAM-less SSD. If the listing says “RTX 5070 gaming PC” and little else, find out what else is inside before you buy.
Budget builders: the RTX 5060 is $460 today, with 18 listings in stock, and was about $340 in July. Under $400 it’s a fair buy for 1080p. It’s still an 8 GB card, though, so read our budget build for where that limit starts to show.
CPUs are the safest buy
Processors don’t use the memory chips that are in short supply, and their prices have stayed close to normal. That makes them the most predictable category. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D fell to $411 during Prime Big Deal Days; at $420 or less I’d buy it without waiting for something better. The Ryzen 5 7600X hit $142, and under $150 it’s the cheapest sensible way onto AM5.
The catch is that a new AM5 CPU needs DDR5. A cheap processor doesn’t help much if the memory for it costs $450.
RAM and SSDs: don’t expect miracles
A 32 GB DDR5-6000 kit cost under $100 in mid-2025. It’s $430–485 now. Even a generous Black Friday discount won’t take it anywhere near the old price, and retailers have little reason to cut prices on something that’s selling anyway. If you need memory, buy it when you need it. If you don’t, wait for the shortage to ease. Our 16 GB RAM article explains why 16 GB is a reasonable place to wait.
SSDs are the same story, only milder. A good 1 TB PCIe 4.0 drive costs $170–210 today, and the ones I’d buy are in our PS5 SSD guide; the same drives work in a PC. I’d treat a WD Black SN850X 1 TB under $170 as a good deal.
How to spot a fake discount
Most bad Black Friday deals aren’t scams. They’re a real discount from a made-up starting price. Three checks catch most of them:
- Compare the price, not the “was” price. A card “reduced from $1,099 to $899” is still $899. Compare that with the table above.
- Check the price history. Price trackers show what a part actually sold for over the past few months. If the “deal” is the same price it was in September, it’s not a deal.
- Look at who’s selling. On Amazon, Newegg and Walmart, much of the cheapest stock comes from third-party marketplace sellers. Check that the listing is sold by the retailer itself or a seller with a long record, especially for graphics cards and SSDs at unusually low prices.
We’ll update the table once the Black Friday prices are live.
Sources
- NowInStock stock and price trackers for the RX 9070 XT, RX 9070, RTX 5070, RTX 5070 Ti, RX 9060 XT, RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060 (November 4, 2026)
- BottleneckPC: Black Friday 2026 prices to beat (Amazon price history, October 21, 2026)
- CheapestSSD: cheapest 1 TB NVMe SSDs (November 4, 2026)
- 1440p performance figures from our 1440p graphics card guide, based on FPS per Dollar’s 21-game averages (November 3, 2026)
